{"id":"MAL-2026-19937","summary":"Malicious code in gateio-ws (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (0f8978dc13690cab2fe33ad377e4c09bb1fa181ecd2fbba9fc1b2e7c17f8d70f)\nGeneric campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n\n - typosquatting\n","modified":"2026-11-14T17:45:02.026932941Z","published":"2026-11-14T17:19:26Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"sha256":"0f8978dc13690cab2fe33ad377e4c09bb1fa181ecd2fbba9fc1b2e7c17f8d70f","source":"kam193","versions":["99.99.1","99.99.2"],"id":"pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/gateio-ws","import_time":"2026-11-14T17:35:59.647782569Z","modified_time":"2026-11-14T17:19:26.436071Z"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/gateio-ws"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"gateio-ws","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/gateio-ws"},"versions":["99.99.1","99.99.2"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/gateio-ws/MAL-2026-19937.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.2","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"REPORTER"}]}