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New Shai-Hulud attack trojanizes 19 science-focused PyPI packages
Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack that delivered malware designed to steal developer secrets. [...]
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Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack that delivered malware designed to steal developer secrets. Many of the infected packages are popular bioinformatics tools such as Dynamo, Spateo, CoolBox, U-FISH, and Napari-UFISH.
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