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A malicious package designed to steal private keys for Ethereum wallets has been uncovered within the Python Package Index (PyPI). According to Socket, this package – named ‘set-utils’ – masquerades ...

The administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) have begun an effort to improve the hundreds of thousands of software packages that are listed. The attempt, which began earlier last year, is to ...

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