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Malicious MAL-2023-8371

tencentcloud-python-sdk

PyPI package · all versions

Reported Aug 15, 2023 · Updated Oct 16, 2023

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: checkmarx (c79d20c4af5b69c3506d69fb847d2f5306a83433cb56e391c8dbf828e9728319)
Malicious Typosquatting packages campaign targeting developers, steals cloud service credentials

Source: google-open-source-security (1c2d7813ed56684da76968b382947f78dc954abf5a95371e9752325a8eae3f2c)
Attack targeted at users of Alibaba, AWS and Telegram via malicious packages published to PyPI.

The malicious code was hidden in strategicly chosen functions and would only trigger when these
functions were called. The malicious code does not automatically run on install or import,
helping the packages evade detection.

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