MAL-2025-191617
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MAL-2025-191617
Summary: Malicious code in aiohttp-openssl (PyPI)
Details: Source: kam193 (67b219a81e6b2dd7db78b4b223da914ee7baefd0ab056940d3af0bc3b47846a0) Packages silently decrypt content hidden in a dependency and load them as Python extension modules. In the first wave, those are copies of legitimate aiohttp and aiohappyeyeballs packages. In the second wave, malicious packages created good-looking forks of legitimate rich and pigments packages. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-10-asynhttp Reasons (based on the campaign): - typosquatting - exfiltration-generic - obfuscation - clones-real-package - native-extension
References: https://www.cert.at/en/blog/2025/10/how-typosquatting-tricked-me-a-bit, https://www.cert.at/en/blog/2025/10/how-typosquatting-tricked-me-a-bit, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/aiohttp-openssl
Affected packages
Package
Name: aiohttp-openssl
Purl: pkg:pypi/aiohttp-openssl
Affected ranges
Type: N/A
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