MAL-2025-4269

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    MAL-2025-4269

    Published: 27 Apr 2025Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in web3author (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (d5eac126109d648cac7a74217f0bc4b9e9bd0d07dc400924bf346f90b4b7ad9d) Package contains just a function to send out data. It (or a package sharing the same IoCs) is used in a malicious GitHub project to exfiltrate crypto currency private keys, e.g. https://github.com/taikoyaki/MegaEth-Auto-Bot/blob/772b4591daaa0b200d1bd1fd3be3d48b8433f084/cap/cap.py#L49 Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-04-alchemyrpcs Reasons (based on the campaign): - crypto-related - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package - exfiltration-crypto

    References: https://github.com/taikoyaki/MegaEth-Auto-Bot/blob/772b4591daaa0b200d1bd1fd3be3d48b8433f084/cap/cap.py#L49, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/web3author

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: web3author

    Purl: pkg:pypi/web3author

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    MAL-2025-4269 | CVE-DB