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 (e301875480dd0a0265eef6c8d1a5b65ef85f1e2051d0e5491dcb4767c5f7b578)
During importing, the code automatically starts a Telegram bot designed to download and save files locally upon a specific message in the channel. While this seems to have limited harm, this behavior is not disclosed and involved packages have typosquatting-like names. The core code is in the "platforms" package
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-02-old-platforms
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- other
- typosquatting
- The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package