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Malicious MAL-2025-1994

requesttss

PyPI package · versions 2.28.1, 1.1.1

Reported Jan 25, 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 (12a8bc9313963cfa671547d93bfa32236afe6b7dfeeec048633a547aa05dbc12)
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