pycryptcore

GHSA-hr2j-pcf8-g9w2

Malicious code in pycryptcore (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (3337f9433143a04e30ce5881c7786f787cc882c983ed5e68b22f60fd79f2a0dd)
Typosquatting package that automatically exfiltrates files to a Telegram channel on importing.


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


Campaign: 2026-05-pycryptcore


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - typosquatting


 - files-exfiltration

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pycryptcore/MAL-2026-3211.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pycryptcore
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pycryptcore/MAL-2026-3211.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hr2j-pcf8-g9w2

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.