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 (924fa9cf3bc0754ab76a7b5960deb5b7295f4f0f3270cc5724214bdd7d543675)
Packages silently decrypt content hidden in a dependency and load them as Python extension modules.
In the first wave, those are copies of legitimate aiohttp and aiohappyeyeballs packages.
In the second wave, malicious packages created good-looking forks of legitimate rich and pigments packages.
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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