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Malicious MAL-2026-903

requests-toolkit

PyPI package · versions 0.1.2, 0.1.3

Reported Feb 15, 2026 · Updated Feb 15, 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 (ccf88804317b4caf9661eb94c320a521f7689c5cf26a8754ec219d268fc9c873)
During import, package masquerade and starts an embedded executable. The executable has signs of infostealer activity

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

Campaign: 2026-02-requests-toolkit

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- impersonation

- infostealer

- malware

- The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

- keylogger