As our hunt against malicious Python packages continues, Imperva Threat Research recently discovered an attempt to masquerade Fade Stealer malware as a nondescript package, Colorama. Why Colorama?

Since my update of Python 3.4 to 3.5 colorama does not recognize a Windows environment if launched from PowerShell. Running colored scripts from cmd.exe does still work. An explicit init (convert=true ...

ANSI escape character sequences have long been used to produce colored terminal text and cursor positioning on Unix and Macs. Colorama makes this work on Windows, too, by wrapping stdout, stripping ...