Python 3.15 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.

covering all the hot paths through the loop. the VM would start tracing there. When the inner loop exits, the VM would detect that a different branch was taken. The VM would try to record a branch ...

Contrast is a confidential-computing runtime for Kubernetes. In versions before 1.18.0, the guest kernel's ACPI/AML handling is vulnerable to an AML injection attack ("BadAML"). ACPI tables containing ...

Vidar has spent years stealing the data people keep closest: saved passwords, browser cookies, wallet files and system details. Now its operators have changed a less visible part of the malware, ...

SLEEPWALKER is a highly sophisticated passive backdoor that remains dormant in memory until activated by a specially crafted network trigger packet. It uses a custom bytecode command language to ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown Windows backdoor named SLEEPWALKER that can receive attacker commands through covert channels including raw network packets, DNS queries, SMB named ...

A sophisticated multi-stage attack uses malicious LNK files delivered through phishing to deploy a Node.js-based backdoor. The malware relies on the EtherHiding technique by querying the TON ...

The Python team has released the first beta of version 3.15, with new features including a stable application binary interface (ABI) for free-threaded CPython, lazy imports to speed startup time, a ...

A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and suspected universities to deploy ...

Python is remarkable in the way it’s evolving with the times. Here’s a peek into the new features of Python 3.13 and 3.14, highlighting their real-world impact. Python’s continuous evolution over the ...

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