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Phishing PyPI users: Attackers compromise legitimate projects to push malware

August 25, 2022

PyPI, the official third-party software repository for Python packages, is warning about a phishing campaign targeting its users. “We have additionally determined that …

Defeating typosquatters: Staying ahead of phishing and digital fraud

May 5, 2021

It has become a mantra for businesses targeted by hackers to describe the incident as a “sophisticated cyber-attack”. Although true in some instances, the reality is that most …

760+ malicious packages found typosquatting on RubyGems

April 17, 2020

Researchers have discovered over 760 malicious Ruby packages (aka “gems”) typosquatting on RubyGems, the Ruby community’s gem repository / hosting service. The …

Lookalike domains: Artificial intelligence may come to the rescue

February 7, 2019

In the world of network security, hackers often use lookalike domains to trick users to unintended and unwanted web sites, to deliver malicious software into or to send data …

How programmers can be tricked into running bad code

June 15, 2016

Are programming language package managers vulnerable to typosquatting attacks? And can these attacks result in software developers running potentially malicious code? The …

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