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Turtles, Clams, and Cyber Threat Actors: Shell Usage
The Socket Threat Research Team uncovers how threat actors weaponize shell techniques across npm, PyPI, and Go ecosystems to maintain persistence and exfiltrate data.
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pip is the package installer
_ for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index
_ and other indexes.
Please take a look at our documentation for how to install and use pip:
Installation
_Usage
_We release updates regularly, with a new version every 3 months. Find more details in our documentation:
Release notes
_Release process
_If you find bugs, need help, or want to talk to the developers, please use our mailing lists or chat rooms:
Issue tracking
_Discourse channel
_User IRC
_If you want to get involved head over to GitHub to get the source code, look at our development documentation and feel free to jump on the developer mailing lists and chat rooms:
GitHub page
_Development documentation
_Development IRC
_Everyone interacting in the pip project's codebases, issue trackers, chat
rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the PSF Code of Conduct
_.
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The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.
We found that pip demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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