Re: [sage-devel] Python security: PyPI hijack exposes 22K+ packages to takeover attacks

2024-09-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2024-09-09 12:43:12, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > The DevOps and security firm estimates there are around 22,000 > packages in PyPI vulnerable to a revive hijack attack, and the > researchers noted they've already spotted the technique being used in > the wild to infect the pingdomv3 package. Sol

[sage-devel] Python security: PyPI hijack exposes 22K+ packages to takeover attacks

2024-09-09 Thread Georgi Guninski
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/09/predator_spyware_trump_crypto/ Mon 9 Sep 2024 // 02:00 UTC Pasting from the above: PyPI hijack exposes 22K+ packages to takeover attacks Security researchers monitoring open source packages have spotted nasty folk waiting for a package to be deleted and re