The attack, which started in May 2023 with "several" malicious packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) official repository, was capable of impacting at least 100,000 GitHub ...

ESET communicated with PyPI to take action against the remaining ones and all of the known malicious packages are now offline. The full list of 116 packages can be found in our GitHub repository.

A security researcher and system administrator has developed a tool that can help users check for manifest mismatches in packages from the NPM JavaScript software registry.

PyPI malware termncolor and colorinal downloaded 884 times exploit DLL side-loading, persistence, and C2 communication.

Hundreds of GitHub repositories hijacked to trick users into downloading malware Malicious npm packages use devious backdoors to target users ...