Alert: Malicious PyPI Package soopsocks Infects 2,653 Systems Before Takedown

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious package on the Python Package Index PyPI repository that claims to offer the ability to create a SOCKS5 proxy service, while also providing a stealthy backdoor-like functionality to drop additional payloads on Windows systems. The deceptive...

MAL-2025-191872 Malicious code in soopsocks (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 adcaa2cfcfa52c7c1ed664a9389ba0bd0ddd2716ea4c475b22bcd2f62bc1ab95 The package promise creating a SOCKS proxy and report the server to a Discord webhook. And indeed appears to do so, but the attached autorun service seems to b...