Claude uploaded malware to PyPI in Anthropic's botched test

One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security ...
SecurityWeek

New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security

GitHub’s Dependabot waits three days before opening pull requests, and PyPI rejects file uploads to releases older than 14 ...
ZDNet

Developers, watch your code: Official Python repository spread malicious projects

PyPI is the official Python Package Index that currently contains 500,972 projects, 5,228,535 million releases, 9,950,103 million files, and 770,841 users. PyPI helps users locate and install software ...
Techzine Europe

GitHub and PyPI are delaying updates to reduce attackers’ opportunities

GitHub and PyPI are implementing new measures to better protect software developers against attacks via the software supply ...

GitHub, PyPI add time-based defenses against supply chain attacks

GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to ...
ZDNet

Python programming: PyPl is rolling out 2FA for critical projects, giving away 4,000 security keys

PyPI or the Python Package Index is giving away 4,000 Google Titan security keys as part of its move to mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) for critical projects built in the Python programming ...
Computer Weekly

PyPI loophole puts thousands of packages at risk of compromise

Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the ...