Malicious packages mitmproxy2 and mitmproxy-iframe have been removed from the PyPI directory
The author of mitmproxy, a tool for analyzing HTTP/HTTPS traffic, has noticed a fork of their project appearing in the Python package catalog PyPI (Python Package Index). The fork was distributed under a similar name mitmproxy2 and a non-existent version 8.0.1 (the current release of mitmproxy is 7.0.4), hoping that unsuspecting users would perceive the package as a new edition of the main project (type-squatting) and would want to try the new version. […]
