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 (32df873f7d91846104a4637b94b2816fea2023260d81c2ecbc5f3c6d5b6a934a)
The package exfiltrates env variables during installation
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-05-tarpackage
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- exfiltration-env-variables
Indicators of compromise
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URLs
- hxxp://82[.]98[.]144[.]242:10443/tarpackage other packages →
IP addresses
- 82[.]98[.]144[.]242 other packages →