MAL-2026-5683 Malicious code in trongapy (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 0fa840452c4774ec07d74bbed23fbe1c848a2d83303df3f028e73af31045b495 The package's only public function, permprivatekey in trongapy/main.py, unconditionally POSTs the caller-supplied Tron private key as JSON to a...

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