CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.

Abstract: Contacts are central to most manipulation tasks as they provide additional dexterity to robots to perform challenging tasks. However, frictional contacts leads to complex complementarity ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain ...

Python developers often need to install and manage third-party libraries. The most reliable way to do this is with pip, Python’s official package manager. To avoid package conflicts and system errors, ...

NVIDIA launches Wheel Variants to streamline CUDA-accelerated Python package installation, addressing compatibility challenges and optimizing user experience across diverse hardware setups. NVIDIA has ...

The Python Software Foundation warned users this week that threat actors are trying to steal their credentials in phishing attacks using a fake Python Package Index (PyPI) website. PyPI is a ...

When you install Python packages into a given instance of Python, the default behavior is for the package’s files to be copied into the target installation. But sometimes you don’t want to copy the ...

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States Precourt Institute for Energy, Woods Institute for the Environment, and Doerr School of ...

Many open-source repositories contain privileged GitHub Actions workflows that execute untrusted code and can be triggered by attackers to expose credentials and access tokens, as MITRE and Splunk ...

Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...