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Malicious MAL-2025-47762

electrum-bch

PyPI package · versions 0.3.6, 0.3.7, 0.3.8, 0.3.9, 0.3.5

Reported Aug 23, 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 (8e4c3bb0f735a352c6f4d18865f3a145912c31f6b9da22c48e731e7fe750b1dd)
The modification of https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum (not clear which version or fork) that during usage will exfiltrate files from the current directory, presumably wanting to collect sensitive data.

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

Campaign: 2025-08-electrum-bch

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- crypto-related

- action-hidden-in-lib-usage

- exfiltration-crypto

- exfiltration-generic

- clones-real-package

Indicators of compromise

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