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MAL-2026-10869

Malicious code in paperclip-ai (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (643de4cab1ea2f7becbca5a7dead46fcb39f35596d2bf7a371fdd2c82ded1530) A clone of a legitimate package with added code that exfiltrates env variables and multiple sensitive files: credentials, dotenv, shell history, etc. Exfiltrated credentials were quickly validated by the attacker.

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

Campaign: 2026-07-browser-use-headless

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- files-exfiltration

- exfiltration-env-variables

- exfiltration-credentials

- clones-real-package

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Affected packages

PyPI / paperclip-ai

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