Malicious PyPI Package Impersonates SymPy, Deploys XMRig Miner on Linux Hosts

A new malicious package discovered in the Python Package Index PyPI has been found to impersonate a popular library for symbolic mathematics to deploy malicious payloads, including a cryptocurrency miner, on Linux hosts. The package, named sympy-dev , mimics SymPy, replicating the latter's projec...