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Malicious MAL-2025-191657

requests-os

PyPI package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Oct 22, 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 (c944343070e83d2eab122e862b5c7349722ee7ceae5ae21e428926480681d24f)
Package contains capabilities for remote control of the user's computer and exfiltrating data

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

Campaign: 2025-10-requests-os

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- rat

- typosquatting

- backdoor

- exfiltration-generic