GitHub has introduced the GitHub Package Registry, a package management service integrated into GitHub that allows developers to publish private or public packages next to their source code.

A researcher going by the handle mschwager on GitHub demonstrated an attack method that abuses the 'setup.py' file in Python modules to perform code execution when the package is installed.

Code hosting website GitHub announced today a new service for its customers that will allow developers and organizations an easy way to generate "packages" from their code. Packages are specially ...

The attack, which started in May 2023 with "several" malicious packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) official repository, was capable of impacting at least 100,000 GitHub ...

“We discovered a 500-package limit for GitHub packages for any user other than an organizational admin. As a result, only people with organizational admin privileges can install all packages ...