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Incident detail

criticalpypi·credential theft·osv

Malicious code in request-cache-py (PyPI)

request-cache-py

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for request-cache-py (pypi).

Description

During import, package exfiltrates browsers data, SSH keys and other credential files, env variables and other sensitive data.


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

Campaign: 2026-06-request-cache-py

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • infostealer

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • exfiltration-ssh-keys

  • impersonation

  • A Telegram webhook is used to send collected data.

  • exfiltration-browser-data

  • The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

  • exfiltration-credentials

  • The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

Technical details

Affected versions

=1.0.0=1.0.1=1.0.2=1.0.3=1.0.4=1.0.5=1.0.6=1.0.7=1.0.8=1.0.9=1.1.0

Indicators

  • affected version=1.0.075%
  • affected version=1.0.175%
  • affected version=1.0.275%
  • affected version=1.0.375%
  • affected version=1.0.475%
  • affected version=1.0.575%
  • affected version=1.0.675%
  • affected version=1.0.775%
  • affected version=1.0.875%
  • affected version=1.0.975%
  • affected version=1.1.075%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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