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Malicious MAL-2026-10869

paperclip-ai

PyPI package · versions 0.1.0, 0.1.1

Reported Jul 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 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: amazon-inspector (e26f6f66830ed0cc58e91483e1df3bc59e622f19078ae2dc88fa8d7f85933793)
No install-time or import-time network I/O, credential access, dropper, silent-relay, or backdoor behavior was identified in this package version. No lifecycle hooks or suspicious build-backend activity were observed.

Source: kam193 (643de4cab1ea2f7becbca5a7dead46fcb39f35596d2bf7a371fdd2c82ded1530)
A clone of a legitimate package with added code that exfiltrates env variables and multiple sensitive files: credentials, dotenv, shell history, etc. Exfiltrated credentials were quickly validated by the attacker.

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

Campaign: 2026-07-browser-use-headless

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- files-exfiltration

- exfiltration-env-variables

- exfiltration-credentials

- clones-real-package

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