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Malicious MAL-2024-12209

assisting-threading

PyPI package · versions 0.1

Reported Aug 19, 2024 · Updated Dec 12, 2025

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: kam193 (33605e5f943eacd5d5ab7a4c37625226e2ef072f2fd3dac068b169d58ba1c2c9)
Infostealer exfiltrating cookies, history and passwords from the Google Chrome browser, as well as attempting to do a webcam photo. Data are sent to a Discord webhook. Malicious code is split over multiple files.

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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2024-08-old-threading-assistant

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- infostealer

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- typosquatting