Microsoft updates its Python extension for VS Code with fixes for two security flaws and easier interpreter selection.

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

Python is even behind Netflix's Security Monkey tool, as well as a project called Prism, which helps identify vulnerabilities in source code.

Although there is nothing special about code executing on a machine, when this code is executed is a significant detail from a security standpoint.

Several harmful Python .whl files containing a new type of malware called “Kekw” have been discovered on PyPI (Python Package Index). According to new data by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs ...

Announced in early July, the security-driven consideration has been largely well received by Python’s community members, although one well-known developer opted to delete their code from PyPI ...

Nearly half (45%) of AI-generated code contains security flaws despite appearing production-ready, new research from Veracode ...

Integration provides enterprise customers best-of-class options for managing secure Python dependencies within KNIME workflows.

The official repository for the widely used Python programming language has been tainted with modified code packages, a computer security authority in Slovakia warned. The authority also said the ...