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New Malicious PyPI Packages Caught Using Covert Side-Loading Tactics - The Hacker News - 02-20-2024

New Malicious PyPI Packages Caught Using Covert Side-Loading Tactics

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that were found leveraging a technique called DLL side-loading to circumvent detection by security software and run malicious code.
The packages, named NP6HelperHttptest and NP6HelperHttper, were each downloaded 537 and 166 times, respectively,

https://thehackernews.com/2024/02/new-malicious-pypi-packages-caught.html