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Malicious MAL-2026-1140

heimdal-credentials

PyPI package · versions 2.1.0

Reported Mar 2, 2026 · Updated Apr 1, 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 (44b549b64558430b61d35bb2eb2cfcf8ec15d75bacb38af8f34deafe5d6add2c)
During import, only in specific environments, a module containing code disguised as telemetry is imported. This code then exfiltrates sensitive environment variables and cloud tokens to a hardcoded location, as well as starts a job listening for commands to execute. Likely dependency confusion attempts

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

Campaign: 2026-02-amigapythonupdater

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-generic

- exfiltration-env-variables

- The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

- dependency-confusion

Indicators of compromise

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