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Malicious MAL-2026-1433

kvstore-pb2-grpc

PyPI package · versions 16.0.0

Reported Mar 15, 2026 · Updated Mar 15, 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 (7208dedf651be9d1e330692ef042b89e5bcae7e8aeee7f2ab400d49e7a574de8)
During import, package decrypts and runs a malicious executable. The executable is hidden in an encoded and xored form in the JSON resource file.

This is a follow up of the campaign 2026-03-fastapi-middleware-cors

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

Campaign: 2026-03-ariadne-federation

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- malware

- obfuscation

- dependency-confusion

- typosquatting