The PyPI package flood is just the latest in a string of attacks on public repositories with the intent to plant malicious code. Over the weekend an attacker has been uploading thousands of malicious ...

The official Python software package repository, PyPI, is getting flooded with spam packages, as seen by BleepingComputer. These packages are named after different movies in a style that is commonly ...

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 ...

A widely used PyPI package was recently compromised through a malicious update The attack leveraged a GitHub Actions workflow to push infostealer code into a release Maintainers quickly issued a clean ...

On May 11, 2026, a self-replicating worm called Mini Shai-Hulud quietly slipped into 42 widely used TanStack open-source packages, corrupting 84 npm artifacts before anyone noticed. Within hours, the ...

More than 200 malicious packages have been discovered infiltrating the PyPI and npm open source registries this week. These packages are largely typosquats of widely used libraries and each one of ...

The scanners tasked with weeding out malicious contributions to packages distributed via the popular open source code repository Python Package Index (PyPI) create a significant number of false alerts ...

TeamPCP has again expanded its supply chain attacks on open-source repositories by targeting Telnyx, according to security researchers. The cyber threat group recently rose to notoriety by uploading ...

Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the ...