Research
2025 Report: Destructive Malware in Open Source Packages
Destructive malware is rising across open source registries, using delays and kill switches to wipe code, break builds, and disrupt CI/CD.
By Kush Pandya - Dec 24, 2025
pipeline
Artifacts are distributable versions of a package. It typically includes the source code and metadata
Advanced tools
- Version
- 0.1
- Maintainers
- 1
Provides a file-like interface to other system processes and shell-like pipelines. In contrast with os.popen, the shell is not used to interpret the commands, and the exit status of each componenet of the pipeline is availabe. An alternative to builtin packages such as subprocess, commands, os.popen, popen2, os.system, etc. Examples of how to feed the pipe with a file-like object are included in the docstrings. Requires os.fork, but does not require any threading libraries.
FAQs
Easy shell-like pipelines, with input from a file-like object
We found that pipeline 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.
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