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Malicious MAL-2026-1407

thief-utils

PyPI package · versions 1.2.6, 1.2.7

Reported Mar 13, 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 (bcebc8919f53e78dae4adb16168fdd37abea93d969d3411b948ed1781c6faf28)
During installation, package attempts to exfiltrate cloud credentials and sensitive env variables

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

Campaign: 2026-03-thief-utils

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-cloud-tokens

- exfiltration-generic

- exfiltration-env-variables