Malicious PyPI package published by an AI agent and run on 15 systems

published 2026-08-03

Installing this malicious PyPI package runs attacker-controlled code on your machine. From there the attacker can read secrets on the machine, such as tokens, SSH keys and .env files.

Source: stepsecurity.io

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