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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 (b434ae7cf6afb9ce18a54757c03069983e404db695d959bd29aa628864b8349c)
On `import karpatkey`, the top-level `karpatkey/__init__.py` spawns a daemon background thread that walks the installer's home directory and collects SSH private keys (`~/.ssh/id_*`), AWS credentials (`~/.aws/credentials`), GCP credentials (`~/.config/gcloud/`), kubeconfig (`~/.kube/config`), Ethereum wallet keystores (`~/.ethereum/keystore/*`), GnuPG private keys (`~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/*`), `.npmrc`/`.pypirc`/docker/git credentials, shell histories, `.env*` files under Desktop/Projects/repos/code/src/work, Kubernetes service-account tokens from `/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount`, and the full `os.environ`. The archive is zipped, base64-encoded and POSTed via plain HTTP to two hardcoded bare-IP destinations, 185.158.107.189:8877 and 151.247.22.13:8877, encoded as integer tuples in an `_ANALYTICS` list and reassembled at runtime by an `_fa` helper. The module `karpatkey/_compat.py` presents itself as a "Runtime environment compatibility layer" and stages the archive as `.compat_cache.zip`, a cover-story that does not match the observed behavior. The destinations are unrelated to the declared publisher domain `kpk.io`.
Source: kam193 (ea7a30728a3c4f46fee3153895404941b4363cb7086f5efe55e9ae9931913395)
During import, the package exfiltrates sensitive data (env variables, credential files, shell history, cryptocurrency wallet data etc.). It appears to be targeting users of kpk.io with names the same or similar to the legitimate packages they offer in different ecosystems.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-07-roles-royce
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- dependency-confusion
- targetted-attack
- exfiltration-credentials
- exfiltration-env-variables
- exfiltration-cloud-tokens
- exfiltration-ssh-keys
- exfiltration-crypto
Indicators of compromise
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URLs
- hxxp://185[.]158[.]107[.]189:8877 other packages →
- hxxp://151[.]247[.]22[.]13:8877 other packages →
IP addresses
- 185[.]158[.]107[.]189 other packages →
- 151[.]247[.]22[.]13 other packages →