MAL-2026-17191
Malicious code in requests-cache-utils (PyPI)
Details
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## Source: kam193 (1655ea47fc7ccd39294203776ee3dcb01a394c40d93e05b7b527700b19de42c8) During installation and importing the module, the code downloads and executes an infostealer.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-09-requests-cache-utils
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
- infostealer
- exfiltration-browser-data
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Affected packages
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