The unidentified people who made available the code packages gave them names that closely resembled those used for packages found in the standard Python library ... secret module, an app's ...

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries ... the code of popular packages and created a new library, but with a slightly modified name. For example, four packages (diango ...

the backdoor was found in a Python module, and not an npm (JavaScript) package. The module's name is SSH Decorator (ssh-decorate), developed by Israeli developer Uri Goren, a library for handling ...

They claim to be a fix for a legitimate Python module named “bitcoinlib ... “The malicious content of that library was detected by the package contributors and the comments were deleted ...

The Python security team removed two trojanized Python libraries from PyPI (Python Package Index) that were caught stealing SSH and GPG keys from the projects of infected developers. The two ...