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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago

Hundreds of malicious Python packages found stealing sensitive data

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Hundreds of malicious Python packages found stealing sensitive data

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago

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A malicious campaign that researchers observed growing more complex over the past half year, has been planting on open-source platforms hundreds of info-stealing packages that counted about 75,000 downloads.

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Here’s the package list https://gist.github.com/masteryoda101/65b55a117fe2ea33735f05024abc92c2
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  that list is longer than Ifollow

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