Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
SecurityWeek

Researchers Demo New Claude Code Attack Using Harmless-Looking Repositories to Hijack Developer Machines

Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.
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These 7 Python libraries are useful even if you're not a developer

Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.
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Programming Languages for Cyber Security: What the Tools Actually Use

Security tooling is not written in a single language. Python powers most automation. C sits at the exploit layer. PowerShell ...
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Cordyceps flaws let anyone with a free GitHub account hijack CI/CD pipelines at Microsoft, Google, and Apache

Security firm Novee has revealed Cordyceps as a class of exploitable CI/CD vulnerabilities across open-source repositories ...

CleanFinder brings browser-based genome editing analysis to labs without coding

Genome editing lets scientists rewrite DNA, the instruction manual inside every living cell, with a precision that was unthinkable a generation ago. Technologies such as CRISPR have made this almost ...
SecurityWeek

Exploitable CI/CD Vulnerabilities Expose Millions of Repositories to Hijacking

Cordyceps, a systemic class of exploitable CI/CD vulnerabilities, allows unauthenticated attackers to hijack developer ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Open VSX 1.0.0 Puts Focus on Open Extension Registry for VS Code Ecosystem

Eclipse Open VSX has reached 1.0.0, highlighting its role as a vendor-neutral registry for VS Code-compatible extensions.