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Malicious MAL-2025-1990

reques

PyPI package · versions 2.28.1

Reported Jan 25, 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 (7f1c117835fcc30eb4ff0ff5c9426d10011537b644ddea270fcdaba17ed7050e)
Clone of the requests package that modified the code to send all get and post requests to a hardcoded URL

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

Campaign: 2025-01-rqsts

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- clones-real-package

- dependency-confusion

- action-hidden-in-lib-usage