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Malicious MAL-2025-191646

makronlox

PyPI package · versions 0.1.0, 0.1.1

Reported Oct 16, 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 (f918d3ae448737e8a58e16ad57af3037e27ba8ab02fef22ba6e0b4f6f2c49e1a)
Package automatically download and runs an executable, which then imitates a malicious action and requests ransom payment.

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

Campaign: 2025-10-makronlox

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

Indicators of compromise

Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.

URLs

  • hxxps://www[.]dropbox[.]com/scl/fi/19qqc7egp8py7t7ov659m/123[.]exe?rlkey=oc0nbftrgxo4avtee5grwbmqi&st=8q0bp98n&dl=1 other packages →