MAL-2026-5088
Malicious code in crypto-helper (PyPI)
Details
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## Source: kam193 (bbb379240ef7e43770f6dab576919fa97bd23ffbb8d3e39b31fd656649335fd7) During installation, the code tamper with security settings and downloads and executes malicious executable.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-05-cryptolock
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- Downloads and executes a remote executable.
- malware
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Affected packages
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