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Malicious MAL-2025-4269

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PyPI package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Apr 27, 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 (d5eac126109d648cac7a74217f0bc4b9e9bd0d07dc400924bf346f90b4b7ad9d)
Package contains just a function to send out data. It (or a package sharing the same IoCs) is used in a malicious GitHub project to exfiltrate crypto currency private keys, e.g. https://github.com/taikoyaki/MegaEth-Auto-Bot/blob/772b4591daaa0b200d1bd1fd3be3d48b8433f084/cap/cap.py#L49

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

Campaign: 2025-04-alchemyrpcs

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- crypto-related

- The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

- exfiltration-crypto

Indicators of compromise

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

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