A nasty Python package continues a trend of targeting developers

Sometimes when malicious hackers meddle with open-source software development, the target isn’t the software — it’s the developers themselves. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Checkmarx say they have been tracking malware intended to infect the computers of developers who work with the popular Python language and have a need to obfuscate their code, or make it

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