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The mobile threat campaign tracked as Roaming Mantis has been linked to a new wave of compromises directed against French mobile phone users, months after it expanded its targeting to include European countries. No fewer than 70,000 Android devices are said to have been infected as part of the active malware operation, Sekoia said in a report published last week. Attack chains involving Roaming

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Backdoor.Win32.Eclipse.h malware suffers from a hardcoded credential vulnerability.

Open source security expert warns there is still a ‘long road’ ahead to prepare for the next attack wave

The scu-captcha package in PyPI v0.0.1 to v0.0.4 included a code execution backdoor inserted by a third party.

The eziod package in PyPI before v0.0.1 included a code execution backdoor inserted by a third party.

The PyCrowdTangle package in PyPI before v0.0.1 included a code execution backdoor inserted by a third party.

The bin-collection package in PyPI before v0.1 included a code execution backdoor inserted by a third party.

The bin-collect package in PyPI before v0.1 included a code execution backdoor inserted by a third party.

The wikifaces package in PyPI v1.0 included a code execution backdoor inserted by a third party.