A third project, Nuitka, also creates a redistributable package, but it’s a more ambitious project overall. It converts a Python program and its associated libraries into a C++ executable with ...

Security researchers found two packages on PyPI, showing malicious intent The packages grant the attackers access to systems and sensitive data The researchers warn developers to exercise caution when ...

As Python’s popularity rises, its limitations are becoming more clear. For one thing, it can be very hard to write a Python application and distribute it to people who don’t have Python installed.

The Slovak National Security Office (NBU) has identified ten malicious Python libraries uploaded on PyPI — Python Package Index — the official third-party software repository for the Python ...

and the third to test for valid credit cards All three have since been removed from the repository Multiple open source software packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository were found ...

More than 400 malicious packages were recently uploaded to PyPI (Python Package Index), the official code repository for the Python programming language, in the latest indication that the ...

This package, too, mimicked the name of a popular Python library ... some time to implement it for another repository since each programming language and repository is a bit different." ...

Package installers and management tools — pip in the case of Python — have their own internal ... According to Sonatype, it is a Windows Trojan program with information stealing capabilities.

SEE: Six in-demand programming languages ... idea that Keith-Magee believes could solve many Python mobile challenges, in combination with a package installer (pip) that lets developers install ...

The former is clean, while the latter contains the malicious code. Python’s package manager, pip, favors a wheel when it’s available rather than a source distribution. As a result, the ...