Open-source, community-driven package repositories see thousands of malware packages each year, but do not currently run automated malware detection systems. In this work, we explore the security ...

The uv utility lets you run Python packages and libraries with one command and no setup. Here's the quick guide to running Python packages without installing them. Astral’s uv tool makes setting up ...

Machine learning models are increasingly applied across scientific disciplines, yet their effectiveness often hinges on heuristic decisions such as data transformations, training strategies, and model ...

When you install Python packages into a given instance of Python, the default behavior is for the package’s files to be copied into the target installation. But sometimes you don’t want to copy the ...

Threat researchers have come across two malicious Python packages offered as resources for integrating the Chinese AI model DeepSeek into software projects. The malicious packages, named ‘deepseeek’ ...

reading and writing files in Spotfire Binary Data Format (SBDF) building Spotfire Packages (SPKs) for distributing Python interpreters and custom packages with Spotfire internal handler code for ...

Matplotlib is a feature-rich module for producing a wide array of graphs, plots, charts, images, and animations. Since Matplotlib is not part of the Python core libraries (like the math and csv ...

A malicious Python package named 'fabrice' has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers. According to ...

One of North Korea's most sophisticated threat groups has been hiding remote access malware for macOS and Linux inside of open source Python packages. North Korean advanced persistent threats (APTs) ...

The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository briefly suspended new user sign-ups following an influx of malicious projects uploaded as part of a typosquatting campaign. PyPI said "new ...

Maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository were forced to suspend new project creation and new user registration to mitigate a malware upload campaign. Maintainers of the Python Package ...