Python – HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site https://www.hackread.com HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:32:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 https://www.hackread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-Favicon-for-HACKREAD-32x32.png Python – HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site https://www.hackread.com 32 32 Legion: Credential Harvesting & SMS Hijacking Malware Sold on Telegram https://www.hackread.com/legion-malware-credential-sms-hijack-telegram/ https://www.hackread.com/legion-malware-credential-sms-hijack-telegram/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:32:54 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=110501 By Waqas

The Legion malware is capable of stealing credentials from misconfigured or exposed servers and is linked to the AndroxGh0st malware family.

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Typosquatting: Legit Abquery Package Duped with Malicious Aabquerys https://www.hackread.com/typosquatting-abquery-package-aabquerys/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 23:22:27 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=107450 By Deeba Ahmed

Aabquerys use the typosquatting technique to encourage downloading malicious components, as it has been cleverly named to make it sound like the legitimate NPM module Abquery.

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New Python Malware Targeting Windows Devices https://www.hackread.com/pyration-python-malware-windows/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 21:13:22 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=106554 By Deeba Ahmed

Dubbed PY#RATION by researchers; the new Python malware is equipped with RAT behaviour and info-stealing capabilities.

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Malicious PyPI Packages Drop Malware in New Supply Chain Attack https://www.hackread.com/pypi-packages-malware-supply-chain-attack/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:12:04 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=106043 By Deeba Ahmed

These packages were uploaded between the 7th and 12th of January 2023 with the names "colorslib," "httpslib," and "libhttps."

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GitHub Abused to Distribute Malicious Packages on PyPI in Image Files https://www.hackread.com/github-malicious-package-pypi-image-files/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:05:22 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=103015 By Waqas

Threat actors are using steganography to hide malicious code in images.

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Python Developers Beware: Malicious Packages are Swapping Out Your Crypto Addresses https://www.hackread.com/python-developers-malicious-crypto-addresses/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 20:50:42 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=102876 By Waqas

It has been identified that these malicious packages are downloaded over 29 million times each day.

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Trojan Source attack lets hackers exploit source code https://www.hackread.com/trojan-source-attack-hackers-exploit-source-code/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:28:33 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=88699 By Waqas

Trojan Source attack impacts all popular programming language compilers, such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, and Go.

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6 official Python repositories plagued with cryptomining malware https://www.hackread.com/6-official-python-repositories-cryptomining-malware/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:40:54 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=86515 By Deeba Ahmed

Six malicious typosquatting packages in the official Python programming language’s PyPI repository are found laced with cryptomining malware.

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PyMICROPSIA Windows malware steals browsing data, record audio https://www.hackread.com/pymicropsia-windows-malware-steals-browsing-data-record-audio/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:36:45 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=82886 By Waqas

PyMICROPSIA malware is developed to target Windows operating systems yet it checks for other operating systems, such as “darwin” or “POSIX.”

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Why is learning Python important in Data Science? https://www.hackread.com/why-is-learning-python-important-in-data-science/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:06:14 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=72343 By Owais Sultan

The field of data science is growing at a rapid pace, offering many job opportunities to people. If you want to enter the industry of data science, you must take a Python course.

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