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Incident detail

criticalpypi·credential theft·osv

Malicious code in hmacsync (PyPI)

hmacsync

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for hmacsync (pypi).

Description

The package is a new version of the previously removed libhmac. The key parts, a malicious payload to inject into hijacked browser extensions, is not included in the package. The code allows hijacking browser extensions to - based on previous package - exfiltrate credentials. This package also contains code to create hidden SSH access to the machine with hardcoded credentials.


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

Campaign: 2026-05-libhmac

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • crypto-related

  • exfiltration-credentials

  • exfiltration-crypto

  • exfiltration-browser-data

Technical details

Indicators

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

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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