Open source malware surged 73% in 2025, with npm as a key target with rising risks in software supply chains and developer environments.

A report from ReversingLabs reveals a massive 73% increase in malicious open-source packages in 2025, with over 10,000 ...

Stranger Things concept of the “Upside Down” is a useful way to think about the risks lurking in the software we all rely on.

Two fake spellchecker packages on PyPI hid a Python RAT in dictionary files, activating malware on import in version 1.2.0.

With the PyArrow library installed, pandas 3.0 interprets string columns automatically as the str data type instead of NumPy- ...

AI A professor lost two years of 'carefully structured academic work' in ChatGPT because of a single setting change: 'These tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability in mind' ...

Microsoft released Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK version 4.14.0, a stable update designed to support advanced AI workloads and enhance performance for data-driven applications. The release includes new ...

Threat actors impersonating PyPI ask users to verify their email for security purposes, directing them to fake websites. The Python Package Index (PyPI), the default platform for Python’s package ...

The Python Software Foundation has warned victims of a new wave of phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website to reset credentials. Accessible at pypi.org, PyPI is the default ...

The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website. PyPI is a ...

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