Quote:Python was recently touted as on track to become the world’s most prevalent coding language, looking to swallow, as it were, the majority of the market share for developers. According to recent analysis, Python’s popularity also extends to black hats.

Mirroring the findings around its use by coders overall, Python-based tools were used in up to 77 percent of attacks against sites seen in telemetry from Imperva, between the end of June and mid-September. The data also shows that in over a third of the cases, a Python-based tool was responsible for the majority of daily attacks.

“These levels, over time, show that Python-based tools are used for both breadth and depth scanning,” Imperva said in its report, released Thursday.