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 (a9222d20b84ed716d5bdf81f1da1d0f088fc7482894c8f25a5d1f757cc477ba9)
On importing the module, there is an automated start of a Telegram bot capable of exfiltrating passwords from browsers, executing arbitrary commands and so on. While the description states it's a monitoring tool, the automated start, capabilities targeting secret values suggest malicious intentions.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2025-03-yolov8mini
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- infostealer
- exfiltration-generic
- dependency-confusion
- exfiltration-browser-data
- The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.