Cyberattackers Torch Python Machine Learning Project

The popular PyTorch Python project for data scientists and machine learning developers has become the latest open source project to be targeted with a dependency confusion attack. [TechWeb]( Follow Dark Reading: [RSS]( January 04, 2023 LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY [Cyberattackers Torch Python Machine Learning Project]( The popular PyTorch Python project for data scientists and machine learning developers has become the latest open source project to be targeted with a dependency confusion attack. [Raspberry Robin Worm Hatches a Highly Complex Upgrade]( The Evil Corp-linked malware family has undergone an evolution, becoming more obfuscated and "several times more complex," as the group behind it tests how far the worm can be spread. 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