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MAL-2026-13362

Malicious code in mnemonic-py (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (6599d6208d71e0e809661e86bf5641e6e7b871cd6f01a54abf22215b8a88ef11) During installation, the package exfiltrates sensitive env variables, browser data, crypto wallets files, ssh keys and other configuration files.

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

Campaign: 2026-08-bip39-py

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- crypto-related

- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

- exfiltration-crypto

- exfiltration-browser-data

- exfiltration-env-variables

- exfiltration-ssh-keys

- exfiltration-credentials

- uses-telegram-bot

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Affected packages

PyPI / mnemonic-py

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