Detecting Malicious Packages on PyPI: Malicious package on PyPI use phishing techniques to hide its malicious intent

By, Ori Abramovsky Highlights: Check Point CloudGuard Spectralops detected a malicious phishing account on PyPI, the leading Python package index. Users installing the account packages were exposed to a malicious actor, probably a PII stealer. Once detected, we alerted PyPI on these packages. Soon after the packages were removed by the PyPI team. Intro PyPI…

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