telegram-helper

GHSA-vxg4-4jxm-7ff9

Malicious code in telegram-helper (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.1`

## Source: kam193 (7db7944f424aaa877ab4c7d4555c4358900d45011b05a886837a14efea2a72a9)
The package hides code that starts a Telegram bot to exfiltrate sensitive session files and cookies


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


Campaign: 2026-09-telegram-helper


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.


 - rat


 - files-exfiltration


 - target:telegram


 - uses-telegram-bot


 - exfiltration-browser-data

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/539f94092fb6cff4751daddf9a6911ec9b5c62e9/osv/malicious/pypi/telegram-helper/MAL-2026-16017.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/telegram-helper
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/539f94092fb6cff4751daddf9a6911ec9b5c62e9/osv/malicious/pypi/telegram-helper/MAL-2026-16017.json
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/3483fc1bf23dd0386426587272fe2080b57cf9dd/osv/malicious/pypi/telegram-helper/MAL-2026-16017.json
- https://pypi.org/project/telegram-helper/0.1.1
- https://pypi.org/project/telegram-helper/0.1.2
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vxg4-4jxm-7ff9

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.1

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