OceanLotus suspected of using PyPI to deliver ZiChatBot malware

Introduction Through our daily threat hunting, we noticed that, beginning in July 2025, a series of malicious wheel packages were uploaded to PyPI the Python Package Index. We shared this information with the public security community, and the malware was removed from the repository. We submitted...

CVE-2026-6357

A flaw was found in pip. Prior to version 26.1, pip's self-update check functionality would execute after installing wheel packages. This process involved importing newly installed Python modules. A malicious actor could craft a specially designed wheel package that, when installed, could lead to...

Critical Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2026-5.0-92-0763

Updates of 'python3-wheel', 'python-wheel', 'openjdk21', 'glib', 'go' packages of Photon OS have been released...