assisting-threading

GHSA-4m6p-r65q-jh8q

Malicious code in assisting-threading (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1`

## Source: kam193 (33605e5f943eacd5d5ab7a4c37625226e2ef072f2fd3dac068b169d58ba1c2c9)
Infostealer exfiltrating cookies, history and passwords from the Google Chrome browser, as well as attempting to do a webcam photo. Data are sent to a Discord webhook. Malicious code is split over multiple files.


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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2024-08-old-threading-assistant


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


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 - typosquatting

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/assisting-threading/MAL-2024-12209.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/assisting-threading
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/assisting-threading/MAL-2024-12209.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4m6p-r65q-jh8q

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.