A new strain of Python-based malware has been used in a "sniper" campaign to achieve encryption on a corporate system in less than three hours. The attack, one of the fastest recorded by Sophos ...

Researchers at Sophos Group plc have released details of new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to compromise and encrypt virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor. The ransomware ...

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ransomware ...

[Damien George] just created Micro Python (Kickstarter alert!), a lean and fast implementation of the Python scripting language that is optimized to run on a microcontroller. It includes a complete ...

[Clifford Wolf] wrote in to let us know about a project he recently completed called EmbedVM. It’s a virtual machine for AVR microcontrollers. The package has a relatively small overhead, taking up ...

The open-source monitoring tool Glances can be used as a Python library in version 4.4.0. It also includes a snapshot mode and many bug fixes.