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A PyPI typosquatting campaign post-mortem

A PyPI typosquatting campaign post-mortem

Phylum Research
tl;dr - An unsophisticated actor efficiently published about a thousand typosquatted packages of forty popular Python packages containing malicious code in a campaign that lasted two days, but actually only took about an hour to
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Phylum Blocks Software Supply Chain Security Attacks

Phylum identifies malicious or risky open-source packages before they enter the software supply chain.

SCA or public databases
82%

of Phylum’s findings are not found by
SCA or reported to public databases

Other curation tools
70%

of Phylum’s findings are not found by
other curation tools

Other software supply chain companies
60%

of Phylum’s findings are not found by
other software supply chain companies

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