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Malicious MAL-2026-19051

shanks

PyPI package · versions 0.0.4

Reported Nov 7, 2026 · Updated Nov 9, 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

The module shanks/shanks.py, when imported, looks up the machine's public IP address and location from a geolocation service and posts the IP address, city, state, postal code, latitude and longitude, with an @everyone mention, to a hard-coded Discord webhook. The package describes itself only as "A small example pkg". Version examined: 0.0.4; sdist SHA-256 dc417305d4b083a60ffda7aa310952306258fc12afc536a0641fc4a79c95bed8.