Researchers have uncovered a supply-chain attack that hides in Python packages, propagates like a worm, and tricks LLM-based ...

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...

Threat actors have struck the software supply chain yet again, this time hitting the Python Package Index (PyPI) with Mini Shai-Hulud in an attempt to spread poisoned code. In the latest campaign, ...

The Miasma supply chain campaign has sparked a fresh attack wave called Hades, this time involving 37 malicious wheel ...

With over 2.2 billion installs, the flawed Python package offers attackers a huge blast radius, including silent access to ...

Rosalind, a Rust-built genomics library, runs whole genome sequencing analysis in 100 MB of RAM on a laptop, with no cloud upload required. The project launched May 27, 2026 — days after the 23andMe b ...

TrapDoor spread 34 malicious packages across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io, stealing developer credentials and enabling persistence.

The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge are set. Here's how last year's winner captured a whopping 60 pythons for the $10,000 grand prize.

A new report out today from cybersecurity company Forcepoint LLC’s X-Labs research team details a supply chain attack that compromised LiteLLM, a widely used open-source Python ...

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

For the last SNL of the year, President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) got into a festive mood — by talking about Jeffrey Epstein for the umpteenth time. Referencing Trump's Wednesday night ...

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