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Malicious MAL-2026-2946

moonbit-metrics-validator

PyPI package · versions 1.0.0

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 (e6bb44c25db578131ec69b1c961c22f67cabb0b81aae5fe9d4620194bf8d83cc)
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