I Know What You Imported Last Summer: A study of security threats in thePython ecosystem

Understand

The popularity of Python has risen rapidly over the past 15 years.

• It is a major language in some of the most exciting technologies today.
• This popularity has led to a large ecosystem of third-party packages available via the pip package registry which hosts more than 200,000 packages.
• These third-party packages can be reused by simply importing the package after installing using package managers like pip.