As part of the JFrog Security Research team’s ongoing work, we continuously monitor newly published packages across multiple ecosystems for malicious activity. This effort serves the broader open source community through public research disclosures, and it directly impacts the detection capabilities behind JFrog Xray and JFrog Curation. Our scanning pipeline uses a broad set of …
Update 25/06/2025: After the publication of our blog, JFrog was contacted by a security team and was informed that the PyPI package was published as part of an internal security audit – “The PyPI package was not created with malicious intent and users were not targeted by unknown threat actors, the purpose of this simulation …
The JFrog Security research team continuously monitors popular open source software (OSS) repositories with our automated tooling, and reports any vulnerabilities or malicious packages discovered to repository maintainers and the wider community. Most recently we disclosed 11 malicious packages in the PyPI repository, a discovery that shows attacks are getting more sophisticated in their approach. …
