MAL-2026-18098 Malicious code in security-research-startup-snapshot-810764b303 (PyPI)

The package is most likely a reconnaissance of a shared infrastructure, collecting potentially sensitive data from cloud endpoints, activated via a PTH file on every Python loading. Collected data are stored in a local filesystem, suggesting the operator has to have some degree of control of the environment.

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

Campaign: 2026-10-omeraf

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• exfiltration-cloud-tokens

• The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

• other

• abuses-pth