News briefs for July 17, 2019. Malicious Python libraries have been found on the official Python Package Index (PyPI), which contain a hidden backdoor that would activate when installed on Linux ...

A researcher has published a working exploit for a remote code execution (RCE) flaw impacting ReportLab Toolkit, a popular Python library used by numerous projects to generate PDF files from HTML ...

A software security engineer has identified 12 Python libraries uploaded on the official Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained malicious code. The 12 packages have been discovered in two separate ...