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Another day, another malicious package being discovered on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository.

Ax Sharma, a cybersecurity researcher from Sonatype, found a typosquatted version of the legitimate library named crytic-compile.

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The threat actors went the extra mile to trick unsuspecting Python developers into downloading the wrong version, too.

ViaThe Hacker News

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