Malicious PyPI Packages Used to Mine Cryptocurrency

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Multiple malicious PyPI packages were caught in the repository for Python projects. The packages were the ones that turned the developers’ workstations into cryptomining machines. The Python Package Index is abbreviated as PyPI and it’s also known as the Cheese Shop. The PyPI is the official third-party software repository for Python as it primarily hosts Python packages in the form of archives called sdists […]

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