PyPI is popular among Python programmers for sharing and downloading code. Since anyone can contribute to the repository, malware – sometimes posing as legitimate, popular code libraries – can appear ...

The popular Python Pickle serialization format, which is common for distributing AI models, offers ways for attackers to inject malicious code that will be executed on computers when loading models ...

Modern Python developers use virtual environments (venvs), to keep their projects and dependencies separate. Managing project dependencies gets more complex as the number of dependencies grows.

The Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python Package Index — the official third-party software repository for the Python ...

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 ...