Newly discovered campaign takes advantage of the fact that most vulnerability scanning tools don't read compiled open-source software.

Security researchers at ReversingLabs have discovered a novel attack that used compiled Python code to evade detection. According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first ...

Python scripts are compiled to cached bytecode to speed execution. As a result, many optimizations of Python have focused on making the bytecode faster to parse.

North Korean attackers pose as recruiters for financial firms to lure developers into executing trojanized Python projects on their machines as part of fake job interviews.

Scripts can also be pre-compiled to Python bytecode (so-called .mpy files) to enable faster loading at runtime. – Via frozen code: Once an application has been developed it can be pre-compiled ...

This code can be run from RAM, EEPROM, or even external storage like an SD card. Recently there was a supplemental compiler project that even takes Python code and compiles it into VM byte-code.