MSC-2023-11856

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Exfiltrating sensitive user system data –...

MSC-2023-10755

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Exfiltrating sensitive user system data –...

MSC-2023-11333

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Exfiltrating sensitive user system data –...

MSC-2023-11361

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Exfiltrating sensitive user system data –...

MSC-2023-10789

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Exfiltrating sensitive user system data –...

Researchers Uncover Obfuscated Malicious Code in PyPI Python Packages

Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index PyPI have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions, including dropping malware, deleting the netstat utility, and manipulating the SSH authorizedkeys file. The packages in question are aptx, bingchilling2, httops, and tkint3rs...

Malicious Package

Overview cerifi is a malicious package. It attempts typosquatting popular packages. The malicious script is base64 obfuscated located in init.py file and tries to steal the current username, platform and IP information and send them to a remote host. Malicious behavior python import getpass impor...

Malicious Package

Overview certife is a malicious package. It attempts typosquatting popular packages. The malicious script is base64 obfuscated located in init.py file and tries to steal the current username, platform and IP information and send them to a remote host. Malicious behavior python import getpass impo...

Malicious Package

Overview certifie is a malicious package. It attempts typosquatting popular packages. The malicious script is base64 obfuscated located in init.py file and tries to steal the current username, platform and IP information and send them to a remote host. Malicious behavior python import getpass...

Malicious Package

Overview certifiee is a malicious package. It attempts typosquatting popular packages. The malicious script is base64 obfuscated located in init.py file and tries to steal the current username, platform and IP information and send them to a remote host. Malicious behavior python import getpass...

Malicious Package

Overview b3oto3 is a malicious package. It attempts typosquatting popular packages. The malicious script is base64 obfuscated located in init.py file and tries to steal the current username, platform and IP information and send them to a remote host. Malicious behavior python import getpass impor...

Malicious Package

Overview awsclii is a malicious package. It attempts typosquatting popular packages. The malicious script is base64 obfuscated located in init.py file and tries to steal the current username, platform and IP information and send them to a remote host. Malicious behavior python import getpass impo...

MSC-2023-11828

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Exfiltrating sensitive user system data –...

MSC-2023-10846

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Exfiltrating sensitive user system data –...

MSC-2023-10403

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Malicious obfuscated code – the code is...

MSC-2023-10310

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Malicious obfuscated code – the code is...

MSC-2023-10370

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Malicious obfuscated code – the code is...

MSC-2023-10432

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Malicious obfuscated code – the code is...

MSC-2022-4214

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Contacting external host – this package sends...

Adult popunder campaign used in mainstream ad fraud scheme

This blog post was authored by Jerome Segura Online advertising is a multi billion dollar industry with projected spending to reach over 600 billion U.S. dollars for 2022. It's not surprising that criminals are trying their hardest to abuse this ecosystem in any way that they can. One of the...