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.
Cheers, Ralf
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 . . .
Chuck
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021, at 18:21, Charles R Harris wrote:
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:47 AM Ralf Gommers ralf.gommers@gmail.com wrote:
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 . . .
Maybe now is a good time to move to accept:
https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0036-fair-play.html
Stéfan
On 14/6/21 11:03 pm, Stefan van der Walt wrote:
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021, at 18:21, Charles R Harris wrote:
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:47 AM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com mailto:ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI, I noticed this package that claimed to be maintained by us: https://pypi.org/project/numpy-aarch64/ <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 <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 . . .
Maybe now is a good time to move to accept:
https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0036-fair-play.html https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0036-fair-play.html
Stéfan
Having just re-read the NEP, I think the Motivation section should mention name re-use: "Additionally, we wish to reduce confusion when package names imply they are sanctioned or maintained by NumPy". Other than that it looks good to me. Do you want to make a PR to add the discussion and change the status, and notify the list of your intention to accept it?
Matti
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021, at 00:38, Matti Picus wrote:
Having just re-read the NEP, I think the Motivation section should mention name re-use: "Additionally, we wish to reduce confusion when package names imply they are sanctioned or maintained by NumPy". Other than that it looks good to me. Do you want to make a PR to add the discussion and change the status, and notify the list of your intention to accept it?
Thanks, Matti. I've made the change suggested and updated the status here:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/19284
Stéfan
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
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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On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 12:44 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
To close the loop on this: I just received admin access to the package and deleted the one release for it, so the name is now safe (I won't release it, just sit on it).
Cheers, Ralf
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