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Malicious MAL-2025-191906

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PyPI package · versions 0.1.1, 0.2.1

Reported Mar 12, 2025 · Updated Dec 12, 2025

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 (c46725ad6c88079cce4f7fa4a29175fec7f78ea83344da99d0f02ac4f020fcf3)
When imported, the code embedded into the exception class downloads a remote file, and runs it by importing, and attempts to cover tracks by overwriting itself, removing caches and other related files.

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

Campaign: 2025-03-tonetext

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

- obfuscation

Indicators of compromise

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

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