minecraft-ytreceiver

GHSA-cj4w-748x-8w4q

Malicious code in minecraft-ytreceiver (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (af6c2393210af3735a9353f40789859af7f87c96bcbd00178df62edb2ff7175e)
The package hides code for exfiltrating files, recordings from the webcam, screenshots, keylogging.


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


Campaign: 2026-08-minecraft-ytreceiver


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - spyware-like


 - files-exfiltration


 - uses-telegram-bot


 - keylogger

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/102bdfbedede704466d60520384243c2b173a93a/osv/malicious/pypi/minecraft-ytreceiver/MAL-2026-14516.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/minecraft-ytreceiver
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/102bdfbedede704466d60520384243c2b173a93a/osv/malicious/pypi/minecraft-ytreceiver/MAL-2026-14516.json
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/ecfa674e1078dfb36dc8f60bcd8f7434b2f7189a/osv/malicious/pypi/minecraft-ytreceiver/MAL-2026-14516.json
- https://pypi.org/project/minecraft-ytreceiver/0.1.0
- https://pypi.org/project/minecraft-ytreceiver/0.3.0
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/b9c9c442d6f4450955c7f85e197c76604ba12743/osv/malicious/pypi/minecraft-ytreceiver/MAL-2026-14516.json
- https://pypi.org/project/minecraft-ytreceiver/0.2.0
- https://pypi.org/project/minecraft-ytreceiver/0.4.0

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.0

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