CastleRAT and CastleLoader, active since March 2025, spread malware via phishing and GitHub repos, enabling data theft.

Cybersecurity firm HiddenLayer uncovers a “CopyPasta License Attack” that exploits Coinbase’s favored AI coding tool, Cursor.

Researchers at the Checkmarx cybersecurity firm sounded the alarm on a dangerous form of malware uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) — a platform for Python developers to download and ...

These malicious packages - deploying cyberespionage backdoors and targeting Windows and Linux systems - were found circulating via the PyPI repository. Security experts expect the problem to continue.

Hackers are exploiting Ethereum smart contracts to inject malware into popular NPM coding libraries, using packages to run ...

Static analysis of the malware’s ELF executable revealed a 64-bit, statically linked ELF with intact debug information, indicating Python code compiled with Cython. The code is relatively short, ...

Members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus posing as recruiters are baiting Python developers with coding test project for password management products that include malware.

“We have recently detected a new fileless attack targeting cloud workloads,” researchers from cloud security company Wiz said in a new report. “The attack consists of Python code that loads ...

For the second time since March, a cybersecurity firm has discovered troubling malware software packages uploaded to the Python Package Index platform.