threading-assistant

GHSA-qqqr-8qp5-f55j

Malicious code in threading-assistant (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1`

## Source: kam193 (b7b431362a8fc3af245e62278011eb007f0b23eeaa959c3a34bbb959fa549a4c)
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/threading-assistant/MAL-2024-12363.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/threading-assistant
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/threading-assistant/MAL-2024-12363.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qqqr-8qp5-f55j

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.