MAL-2025-47780 Malicious code in kraken-virus (PyPI)
- Package
- kraken-virus
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2025-47780?
MAL-2025-47780 is a malicious package in kraken-virus, published on 28 Aug 2025.
Official description
As even described, the package contains a malicious code collecting large amount of data. The description suggests educational use, yet, the code can cause real harm. Specifically, the C2 servers defined in the package seems to be selected as trusted domains that would ignore the data sent. However, among them is at least one domain available for sale at the time of analysis - opening the room for collecting data by the uploader.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2025-08-kraken-virus
Reasons (based on the campaign):
malware
exfiltration-browser-data
exfiltration-generic
What should I do about MAL-2025-47780?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.