CRITICAL PyPI Malware
Malicious code in confighub (PyPI)
MAL-2026-6752
Published · Modified
Description
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Source: kam193 (7c0b6d6eae8eecdf0317e7d4c624ff2a1eee1ca58c92c6b4fac34dd2567f4556)
This package depends on malicious 'procwire', which starts malicious actions during installation.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-07-procwire
Reasons (based on the campaign):
The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
Downloads and executes a remote executable.
obfuscation
The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package
malware
steganography
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