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Malicious MAL-2025-1980

mlc-ai-nightly

PyPI package · versions 9.9.9, 9.9.99, 0.0.1

Reported Jan 21, 2025 · Updated Apr 16, 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 (7f1b0b9f87631941501e2d04d9eab7f1cd7232f770812e3373b736f9e682dc2a)
Installing the package exfiltrates information about the host, including environmental variables.

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

Campaign: 2025-01-mlc-ai-nightly

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

- exfiltration-env-variables

- dependency-confusion

Indicators of compromise

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