August 16, 2022
A now-removed rogue package pushed to the official third-party software repository for Python has been found to deploy cryptominers on Linux systems.
The module, named “secretslib” and downloaded 93 times prior to its deletion, was released to the Python Package Index (PyPI) on August 6, 2022 and is described as “secrets matching and verification made easy.”
“On a closer
The module, named “secretslib” and downloaded 93 times prior to its deletion, was released to the Python Package Index (PyPI) on August 6, 2022 and is described as “secrets matching and verification made easy.”
“On a closer
Article posted by: https://thehackernews.com/2022/08/newly-uncovered-pypi-package-drops.html
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