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MAL-2026-5089

Malicious code in cryptolock (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (b0140fddafadce54debaca7d9591e2770acd987aaf90ec7008b4ae4cf301c233) 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

PyPI / cryptolock

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References