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spam

Incident Summary

spam PyPI package compromised via phishing.

During the same JuiceLedger phishing wave that hit exotel, the maintainer account for the PyPI package spam was compromised. Malicious versions 2.0.2 and 4.0.2 were uploaded with installation logic that downloaded and executed infostealer malware on developer systems during installs.

Date
2022-08-01 to 2022-08-31
Category
Commercial
Target Surface
Package registry
Insertion Phase
distribution
Impact
Infostealer
Cause
Phishing

What Was Affected

Package spam
LanguagePython
ComponentLibrary
Artifact typesource archive
Domain typepackage host
Domain pypi.org

Compromised Versions

Incident Context

Motive
Credential theft
Attribution
Threat Actor
Transitive
No
User Impact
200000
Observed Duration
30 days

Evidence

Compromised Artifacts

Current Artifacts and Analysis

Indicators and Changes

Hashes

  • sha256:60434af3ebe924efabc96558e6c8d8176bf4eb06dd6cc47b4c491da9964be874

External References

Source Data

Source record: proprietary/spam/meta.yaml