MAL-2026-2945 Malicious code in moonbit-locale-compat (PyPI)
- Package
- moonbit-locale-compat
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2026-2945?
MAL-2026-2945 is a malicious package in moonbit-locale-compat, published on 20 Apr 2026.
Official description
Campaign includes a chain of dependencies that finally exfiltrate sensitive environment variables to a hardcoded GitHub repository as exfiltration target, and in specific environments also start a reverse shell. It appears to be targeting specifically one GitHub project, where the front-end package was included in a PR.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-04-moonbit-locale-compat
Reasons (based on the campaign):
The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package
The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.
exfiltration-env-variables
What should I do about MAL-2026-2945?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.