Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays and planning parties and learning about ...

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...

Check Point Research has detected a malicious open source code package that uses steganography to hide malicious code inside image files. The malicious package was available on PyPI, a package index ...

In the latest supply chain attack, an unknown threat actor has created a malicious Python package that appears to be a software development kit (SDK) for a well-known security client from SentinelOne.

Darktrace researchers say hackers used AI and LLMs to create malware to exploit the React2Shell vulnerability to mine ...

For example, even though I'm primarily a C++ developer, I often use Python for scripting purposes. On another forum frequented by (but not solely for) devs, I mentioned a particular issue I had with a ...

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 ...

Threat actors uploaded malicious Python packages to the PyPI repository and promoted them through the StackExchange online question and answer platform. The info-stealing malware can also exfiltrate ...

Two more malicious Python packages have been discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, days after security researchers from Check Point spotted 10 of them. The two additional packages ...

The ChatGPT AI chatbot has created plenty of excitement in the short time it has been available and now it seems it has been enlisted by some in attempts to help generate malicious code. AI chatbots ...