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MAL-2026-6289

Malicious code in equest (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (2bb3fce5427fc5a0a72380cf59e8396bf3409ceaead44f6a2df757f125b6e287) During installation, the package exfiltrates env variables

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

Campaign: 2026-06-ip-rotat

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

- exfiltration-env-variables

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Affected packages

PyPI / equest

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References