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New Revival Hijack technique leaves 22,000 PyPi projects vulnerable to attacks

Up to 22,000 PyPI packages may be at risk of being hijacked in a newly-developed supply chain attack technique, research reveals. Security researchers at devops specialist JFrog published a blog warning developers about a new attack technique that leverages the ability to re-register popular packages once the original owner removes them from PyPI’s index. Dubbed ‘Revival Hijack’, the technique builds…