Security researchers from Phylum have discovered a malicious package in the popular PyPI repository, masquerading as the well-known library “requests,” but posing a significant threat to the entire developer community. The package, named “requests-darwin-lite,”...
In the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, counterfeit packages disseminating malicious software were detected. These packages, masquerading as popular Python libraries, garnered thousands of downloads globally, including in the United States and China. A...
GitHub recently extended its secret scanning feature to repositories containing PyPI and RubyGems registry secrets to prevent Ruby and Python developers from inadvertently submitting secrets and credentials to their GitHub repositories. A secret, also...
The Secret scanning program is a service launched by GitHub. GitHub cooperates with the repositories owner to scan the repositories secretly to prevent fraudulent use of secrets that were committed accidentally. The scan will...
After scanning more than one million libraries of PyPI (Python Package Index), security company ReversingLabs found three malicious Python libraries containing malicious backdoors that will be activated after being installed on a Linux system....
