700+ Malicious Open-Source Packages Found in npm and PyPI

700+ Malicious Open-Source Packages Found in npm and PyPI

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Sourav Rudra
Feb 20, 2023

Last month, security researchers at Sonatype caught 691 malicious packages in the npm registry and 49 in the PyPI registry.

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Sourav Rudra

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