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DeepSeek’s popularity exploited to push malicious packages via PyPI


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Two malicious packages leveraging the DeepSeek name have been published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) package repository, and in the 30 minutes or so they were up, they …

First seen on helpnetsecurity.com

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