Experts Identify Fully-Featured Info Stealer and Trojan in Python Package on PyPI

A malicious Python package uploaded to the Python Package Index PyPI has been found to contain a fully-featured information stealer and remote access trojan. The package, named colourfool, was identified by Kroll's Cyber Threat Intelligence team, with the company calling the malware Colour-Blind...

W4SP Stealer Discovered in Multiple PyPI Packages Under Various Names

Threat actors have published yet another round of malicious packages to Python Package Index PyPI with the goal of delivering information-stealing malware on compromised developer machines. Interestingly, while the malware goes by a variety of names like ANGEL Stealer, Celestial Stealer, Fade...

W4SP Stealer Constantly Targeting Python Developers in Ongoing Supply Chain Attack

An ongoing supply chain attack has been leveraging malicious Python packages to distribute malware called W4SP Stealer, with over hundreds of victims ensnared to date. "The threat actor is still active and is releasing more malicious packages," Checkmarx researcher Jossef Harush said in a technic...

Malicious Package

Overview pipstyle is a malicious package. This is a malicious package, which contains a copy of the W4SP Stealer malware in utils.py. The malicious code cannot be executed but it could be invoked if this package were called by another one due to dependency confusion. Remediation Avoid using all...

Researchers Uncover 29 Malicious PyPI Packages Targeted Developers with W4SP Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered 29 packages in Python Package Index PyPI, the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language, that aim to infect developers' machines with a malware called W4SP Stealer. "The main attack seems to have started around October 12...