Typosquatting Campaign Targets Python Developers with Hundreds of Malicious Libraries

Executive Summary Security firm Phylum has discovered and reported an automated typosquatting attack campaign recently detected on March 26, 2024, which targeted popular Python libraries hosted on the Python Package Index (PyPI) page. Attackers deployed over 500 typosquatted variations of well-known libraries like TensorFlow, BeautifulSoup, requests, requirements, and others. These variations were designed to mimic legitimate package names but…

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