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 (a1c1bf78d6e3b593fd29329b4175a48c645abf4b4b63e93db68f25221329d14c)
During installation, the package starts obfuscated code that attempts to exfiltrate some basic information using DNS requests and then likely cover tracks by installing a similarly named package from private repository
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-02-urllib-slim
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- typosquatting
- Downloads and executes a remote executable.
- obfuscation
- dependency-confusion
Indicators of compromise
Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.
Domains
- 1r[.]vc other packages →
- i[.]1r[.]vc other packages →
URLs
- hxxps://storage[.]googleapis[.]com/py-pi/python_mac other packages →
- hxxps://storage[.]googleapis[.]com/py-pi/python_rhel other packages →
- hxxps://storage[.]googleapis[.]com/py-pi/python_win other packages →