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Not for the first time, typosquatting malware made its way into an open source code repository.
Hackers have an obvious predilection for Python-based attack tools, says Imperva. “When examining the use of Python in attacks against sites we protect, the result was unsurprising – a large...
Imperva: Up to 77 percent of the sites we monitor were attacked by a Python-based tool.
More than 20 percent of GitHub repositories containing an attack tool or an exploit proof of concept (PoC) are written in Python.
A ransomware family used in attacks in July and August was posing as the infamous Locky ransomware that was highly active in 2016, Trend Micro researchers have discovered. read more
Proofpoint announced three people-centric security innovations, including Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) Isolation for personal webmail and browsing defense, threat detection, and new Threat...
It's 1337 times better than /dev/random, which means it will bring a smile to any sysadmin's face. (Warning: requires scissors.)
GitHub announced on Thursday that developers will be warned if the Python packages used by their applications are affected by known vulnerabilities. read more
Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python-based adware that are being distributed in the wild not only to inject ads but also found installing malicious...
Fortanix announced it has extended the capabilities of the industry’s Runtime Encryption Platform to secure Python- and R-based applications that have widespread use in the data science community....