Here's a story about how malicious pypi packages help break into corporate networks. It is not necessarily the goal this particular person was aiming for. Just a side note. "Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies" https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610 Best regards, Lev On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 6:48 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:22 AM Charles R Harris < charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:47 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
FYI, I noticed this package that claimed to be maintained by us: https://pypi.org/project/numpy-aarch64/. That's not ours, so I tried to contact the author (no email provided, but guessed the same username on GitHub) and asked to remove it: https://github.com/tomasriv/DNA_Sequence/issues/1.
There are a very large number of packages with "numpy" in the name on PyPI, and there's no way we can audit/police that effectively, but if it's a rebuild that pretends like it's official then I think it's worth doing something about. It could contain malicious code for all we know.
That is a pretty misleading package description, would have fooled me if I didn't know better. I didn't get the impression it was malicious, but still . .
Hard to know whether it was malicious or not.
I finally filed a PyPI issue to hand over the package to me so I can delete the wheel and replace the README: https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support/issues/1635
Cheers, Ralf
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