Hoodline

San Antonio AI Researchers Sound Alarm On Phantom Package Trap

UTSA: ~20% of AI-suggested packages don't exist. Slopsquatting could let attackers slip malicious libs into projects.

North Korean job scammers target JavaScript and Python developers with fake interview tasks spreading malware

For those unfamiliar with Operation Dream Job, it is an ongoing campaign created by North Korean state-sponsored hackers.
IEEE

Automated Detection and Mitigation of Malicious Packages in the PyPI Ecosystem and .exe Files: PyGuardEX

Abstract: The rapid growth of open-source ecosystems such as PyPI has significantly increased the risk of malicious packages infiltrating and affecting the software supply chains. Attackers often ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Aspire 13 Makes Python a First-Class Workload with .NET and JavaScript

Microsoft has added official Python support to Aspire 13, expanding the platform beyond .NET and JavaScript for building and running distributed apps. Documented today in a Microsoft DevBlogs post, ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Ald. Villegas proposes $1.25-a-package ground delivery tax on Chicago consumers

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VentureBeat

AI coding transforms data engineering: How dltHub's open-source Python library helps developers create data pipelines for AI in minutes

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro-1.1-ultra A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in minutes using ...
CSOonline

GhostAction campaign steals 3325 secrets in GitHub supply chain attack

GitGuardian has disclosed a new software supply chain attack campaign, dubbed GhostAction, that exfiltrated thousands of sensitive credentials before being detected and contained on September 5. The ...
International Monetary Fund

A Python Package to Assist Macroframework Forecasting: Concepts and Examples

In forecasting economic time series, statistical models often need to be complemented with a process to impose various constraints in a smooth manner. Systematically imposing constraints and retaining ...
bitnewsbot

Malicious PyPI Packages Uncovered: Supply Chain Risk for Python

Cybersecurity researchers have found harmful software in the official Python Package Index (PyPI) and npm package repositories, putting software supply chains at risk. The packages, called termncolor ...
thecyberexpress

LLMs Create a New Supply Chain Threat: Code Package Hallucinations

Code-generating large language models (LLMs) have introduced a new security issue into software development: Code package hallucinations. Package hallucinations occur when an LLM generates code that ...
GitHub

lixelv/pypi-package-template

Automated publishing to PyPI on GitHub releases Version automatically synced from GitHub release tags requirements.txt support for project dependencies Pre-configured setup with pyproject.toml using ...