MAL-2025-990

    Dashboard / Malicious Package / MAL-2025-990

    MAL-2025-990

    Published: 26 Dec 2024Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in syscontrol (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (2c413668a48a55dfe9f01e94c01fcfa37b26660436d8281a4075884b1cadd06e) Importing the module starts downloading and executing an Infostealer targeting browsers' and Discord data In first packages, there was a hidden line triggering downloading and running an infostealer Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2024-12-syscontrol Reasons (based on the campaign): - infostealer - obfuscation - action-hidden-in-lib-usage - infostealer:kiwi - exfiltration-browser-data - exfiltration-crypto

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/syscontrol

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: syscontrol

    Purl: pkg:pypi/syscontrol

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1
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