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Incident detail

criticalpypi·crypto miner·osv

Malicious code in cryptolock (PyPI)

cryptolock

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for cryptolock (pypi).

Description

During installation, the code tamper with security settings and downloads and executes malicious executable.


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

Campaign: 2026-05-cryptolock

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

  • Downloads and executes a remote executable.

  • malware

Technical details

Indicators

  • affected version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%
  • affected version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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