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Malicious MAL-2026-916

alibabacloude

PyPI package · versions 2.2.0, 2.13.37

Reported Feb 16, 2026 · Updated Mar 19, 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 (c45df7f85cfaba4bf141f0a17ba2d0987e080131bab1f1233798a1287d63fa7f)
Series of packages impersonating Alibaba Cloud. Two oldest hide code to run obfuscated code, but are likely to be used as dependency as the obfuscated code is not inside. The newest describe similar functionality, but the inside is highly obfuscated. Package names closely reassemble names of real Alibaba packages

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

Campaign: 2026-02-alibabacloude

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- typosquatting

- impersonation

- obfuscation