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.

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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 ...