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Malicious MAL-2025-191897

tgeffect

PyPI package · versions 1.1.3, 1.1.2, 1.1.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4

Reported Nov 22, 2025 · Updated Apr 22, 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 (e254217ac113edcc1914bdfcda06509137ceed6a7441b3c846653d769335bcaa)
Importing the module starts obfuscated code which then look for data related to some Telegram clients and attempt to exfiltrate them

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

Campaign: 2025-11-tgeffect

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- obfuscation

- target:telegram

- exfiltration-credentials