GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

The hacker group TeamPCP uploaded two malicious versions of the popular Python library LiteLLM to PyPI. Using a previously compromised version of the vulnerability scanner Trivy, the attackers stole ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

ReliaQuest observed attackers pairing ClickFix with the PySoxy proxy tool to establish redundant encrypted access paths and persistence on compromised systems. ClickFix, a one-shot social engineering ...

Cross-chain bridges are an essential instrument in your DeFi toolbox. As the cryptocurrency industry expands at a dizzying rate, being able to shift your funds across different blockchain networks ...

The open-source package elementary-data, with over a million downloads per month, has been compromised. Attackers exploited a vulnerability in a GitHub Actions workflow to steal signing keys and ...

Iterable, the AI-native customer engagement platform, today unveiled the latest breakthrough in its rapidly expanding agentic marketing suite: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. This new access ...

The Python Software Foundation team has invalidated all PyPI tokens stolen in the GhostAction supply chain attack in early September, confirming that the threat actors didn't abuse them to publish ...

Python is everywhere in modern software. From machine learning models to production microservices, chances are your code—and your business—depends on Python packages you didn’t write. But in 2025, ...

Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages continue to rise. Perl surprises. Python, the highest-ranking language ever in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. Every year, the well-known industry analyst firm Gartner publishes a list of the 25 ...

Would you trust an AI agent to run unverified code on your system? For developers and AI practitioners, this question isn’t just hypothetical—it’s a critical challenge. The risks of executing ...