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 (9f97af1701ef4cd3f9c0a8bf1f8245a4291ac3b704b9149972b27a6dd9966428)
This is a typosquatting/dependency confusion package that is part of a campaign embedding malicious code but was found before the malicious code was injected. The original, legitimate package is https://pypi.org/project/celium-collateral/ The uploader proved malicious intentions in the gztensor-cli package
Packages in this campaign clone a legitimate library and add a hidden code that downloads a malicious script. The script then downloads an archive with malicious executable in the version appropriate to the system architecture, and ensures persistency by adding automatically started service entries. The remote code is a Go-based inforstealer and backdoor previously attributed to Nordkorean cybercrime activities. In this campaign, the malicious code is not immediately introduced in the typosquatted package, but added with an update.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-01-gztensor-cli
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- crypto-related
- action-hidden-in-lib-usage
- Downloads and executes a remote executable.
- clones-real-package
- peristence-autorun
- typosquatting
- obfuscation
- backdoor
- infostealer
Indicators of compromise
Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.
Domains
- bitensor[.]xyz other packages →
- cameradriver[.]pro other packages →
URLs
- hxxps://bitensor[.]xyz/realtek[.]sh other packages →
IP addresses
- 23[.]227[.]203[.]99 other packages →