
Research
PyPI Package Disguised as Instagram Growth Tool Harvests User Credentials
A deceptive PyPI package posing as an Instagram growth tool collects user credentials and sends them to third-party bot services.
Paste the contents of the clipboard or a file to the cursor after a specified delay
A simple command line tool to write the contents of the clipboard or a file to the cursor after a delay of few seconds. It uses
the pyautogui
package to simulate the keystrokes to write out the file where the cursor is placed.
Make sure you have Python3 installed on your system.
pip install autotyper
You will have the autotyper
command available to go on your system.
Write file/clipboard content on cursor
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
clipboard:
--clipboard copy from clipboard flag
file:
-f FILE input file path, not required for clipboard mode
-d DELAY delay in sec before writing to the cursor
$ autotyper -f bubblesort.c -d 10
Writing file content to cursor in 10 sec...
In this time, position your cursor to where you want to type out the text, when the delay ends, the content of the file will be written to the cursor. Can be used in online exams to write the content of a file, where copy paste is not allowed in the text box.
$ autotyper --clipboard -d 10
Writing clipboard content to cursor in 10 sec...
The content of your clipboard will be pasted on the cursor after the specified delay
Copyright (c) Junaid H. Rahim. All rights reserved. Licensed under the MIT License
FAQs
Paste the contents of the clipboard or a file to the cursor after a specified delay
We found that autotyper demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Did you know?
Socket for GitHub automatically highlights issues in each pull request and monitors the health of all your open source dependencies. Discover the contents of your packages and block harmful activity before you install or update your dependencies.
Research
A deceptive PyPI package posing as an Instagram growth tool collects user credentials and sends them to third-party bot services.
Product
Socket now supports pylock.toml, enabling secure, reproducible Python builds with advanced scanning and full alignment with PEP 751's new standard.
Security News
Research
Socket uncovered two npm packages that register hidden HTTP endpoints to delete all files on command.