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Malicious MAL-2026-2945

moonbit-locale-compat

PyPI package · versions 0.2.1, 0.2.3, 0.2.4

Reported Apr 20, 2026 · Updated Jul 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

Source: kam193 (d42bb32adb1fb5f388368b9e4ab382bfbc8cd7f62dab4c70a8563a448ce9c2af)
Campaign includes a chain of dependencies that finally exfiltrate sensitive environment variables to a hardcoded GitHub repository as exfiltration target, and in specific environments also start a reverse shell. It appears to be targeting specifically one GitHub project, where the front-end package was included in a PR.

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

Campaign: 2026-04-moonbit-locale-compat

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

- The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

- exfiltration-env-variables