Nov. 8, 2023, 12:57 p.m. | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

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A new set of malicious Python packages has slithered their way to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with the ultimate aim of stealing sensitive information from compromised developer systems.
The packages masquerade as seemingly innocuous obfuscation tools, but harbor a piece of malware called BlazeStealer, Checkmarx said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
"[BlazeStealer]

aim called checkmarx compromised developer developers harbor information malicious malware obfuscation package packages piece pypi python python package python package index repository sensitive sensitive information stealing systems tools

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