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Malicious MAL-2025-191616

aiohappyeyeball

PyPI package · versions 2.6.1

Reported Oct 27, 2025 · Updated Mar 19, 2026

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 (c4026e5d61b51d8fb2688488995ad95c662a15084e5c4799b0e68d0962291056)
Malicious copy of the legit aiohappyeyeballs package, the __pycache__/staggerd.pyc contains a suspicious binary content (which seems not to be a valid PYC)

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

Campaign: 2025-10-asynhttp

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- typosquatting

- exfiltration-generic

- obfuscation

- clones-real-package

- native-extension