Anthropic Backs Python Security With $1.5 Million PSF Partnership

Anthropic committed $1.5 million to the Python Software Foundation to strengthen PyPI and CPython security, targeting ...
WeLiveSecurity

A pernicious potpourri of Python packages in PyPI

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 ...
Analytics India Magazine

Python Foundation Gets $1.5 Mn Investment From Anthropic

Anthropic is planning to invest $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to support security in the Python ...
Dark Reading

One-Third of Popular PyPI Packages Mistakenly Flagged as Malicious

The scanners tasked with weeding out malicious contributions to packages distributed via the popular open source code repository Python Package Index (PyPI) create a significant number of false alerts ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious PyPI package with 37,000 downloads steals AWS keys

A malicious Python package named 'fabrice' has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers. According to ...
ZDNet

Twelve malicious Python libraries found and removed from PyPI

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 ...