Reversing Labs researchers identified and reported the threat, leading to its removal from the PyPI.

Secure by Demand offers a starting point for third-party risk management teams, but they need to take the essential step of using a mature software supply chain security solution to ensure they're not blindly trusting a provider's software.

This episode of Safe Mode explores the critical issue of software supply chain security with Saša Zdjelar, ReversingLabs’ chief trust officer.

Threats to software supply chains are eroding the existing enterprise software procurement model, so it’s time for a change.

Saša Zdjelar of ReversingLabs, explains why SBOM are a good first start, but aren’t enough to deliver secure software.

According to ReversingLabs, the hackers behind the effort are luring developers with fake job offers and instructing them to download PyPI packages with obfuscated malware from GitHub repositories as part of coding tests.