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Malicious npm Packages Inject SSH Backdoors via Typosquatted Libraries
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
Data cleaning and validation functions for processing various types of text emanating and describing the business world. This applies to human and company names, language, territory and country codes, corporate and tax identifiers, etc.
The underlying idea is that handling these sorts of descriptors is easy on first glance, but reveals a dizzying set of complexity when carried into production. This is why rigour
consolidates implementations that have already met some edge cases and are well-tested.
rigour
You can just grab the library from PyPI:
pip install -U rigour
FAQs
Financial crime domain data validation and normalization library.
We found that rigour demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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