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GlassWorm Attack Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Force-Push Malware Into Python Repos

GlassWorm campaign injects malware into GitHub Python repos using stolen tokens since March 8, 2026, exposing developers to ...
The Hacker News

Multi-Stage VOID#GEIST Malware Delivering XWorm, AsyncRAT, and Xeno RAT

VOID#GEIST malware campaign delivers XWorm, AsyncRAT, and Xeno RAT using batch scripts, Python loaders, and explorer.exe ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Linux Flaws, Python Ownage, And A Botnet Shutdown

Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and ...
TechJuice

GlassWorm Malware Silently Infects Hundreds of Python Projects

GlassWorm attack uses stolen GitHub tokens to inject malware into Python repositories, exposing developers to supply chain risks.
Yahoo Finance

Introducing Chainguard Libraries for Python: Malware-Resistant Dependencies Built Entirely from Source

Today, more than half of the world's developers rely on Python, a programming language that has become the foundation of modern AI and machine learning applications. As the popularity of Python has ...
CoinTelegraph

Crypto-stealing malware discovered in Python Package Index — Checkmarx

According to cybersecurity firm Hacken, financial losses from crypto hacks topped $440 million in the third quarter of 2024. Researchers at the Checkmarx cybersecurity firm sounded the alarm on a ...
Bleeping Computer

Python info-stealing malware uses Unicode to evade detection

A malicious Python package on PyPI uses Unicode as an obfuscation technique to evade detection while stealing and exfiltrating developers' account credentials and other sensitive data from compromised ...
Dark Reading

Novel PyPI Malware Uses Compiled Python Bytecode to Evade Detection

In a new twist on software supply chain attacks, researchers have discovered a Python package hiding malware inside of compiled code, allowing it to evade ordinary detection measures. On April 17, ...
TechRadar

Some official Python repos were infected with malware

Cybersecurity researchers recently discovered half a dozen typosquatting packages in the official PyPI repository of the Python programming languages that contained cryptomining malware. The discovery ...