A previously undocumented Python backdoor targeting VMware ESXi servers has been spotted, enabling hackers to execute commands remotely on a compromised system.

A new Python-based malware has been spotted in the wild featuring remote access trojan (RAT) capabilities to give its operators control over the breached systems.

The malware delivers a backdoor capable of remote command execution, exfiltration, and taking screenshots. The backdoor component is implemented for both Windows, in Python, and Linux, in Go.

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

Chainguard, the secure foundation for software development and deployment, today announced Chainguard Libraries for Python, an index of malware-resistant Python dependencies built securely from ...

A well-resourced hacking operation has deployed newly developed trojan malware in a campaign targeting financial tech organisations with the aim of stealing email addresses, passwords and other ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Phylum have found a new form of malware in a PyPI package that was using Unicode to hide. Unicode is a global encoding standard used for different languages and ...

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 ...

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code.

A new malware attack is targeting Mac computers with a Python-based backdoor Trojan. And Windows computers aren’t getting away scott free either.