{"id":149607,"date":"2022-11-06T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-uncover-29-malicious-pypi-packages-targeted-developers-with-w4sp-stealer"},"modified":"2022-11-06T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:22:59","slug":"researchers-uncover-29-malicious-pypi-packages-targeted-developers-with-w4sp-stealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-uncover-29-malicious-pypi-packages-targeted-developers-with-w4sp-stealer","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Uncover 29 Malicious PyPI Packages Targeted Developers with W4SP Stealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-29-malicious-pypi-packages-targeted-developers-with-w4sp-stealer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered 29 packages in Python Package Index (PyPI), the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language, that aim to infect developers\u2019 machines with a malware called <b>W4SP Stealer<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main attack seems to have started around October 12, 2022, slowly picking up steam to a concentrated effort around October 22,\u201d software supply chain security company Phylum <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.phylum.io\/phylum-discovers-dozens-more-pypi-packages-attempting-to-deliver-w4sp-stealer-in-ongoing-supply-chain-attack\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a report published this week.<\/p>\n<p>The list of offending packages is as follows: typesutil, typestring, sutiltype, duonet, fatnoob, strinfer, pydprotect, incrivelsim, twyne, pyptext, installpy, faq, colorwin, requests-httpx, colorsama, shaasigma, stringe, felpesviadinho, cypress, pystyte, pyslyte, pystyle, pyurllib, algorithmic, oiu, iao, curlapi, type-color, and pyhints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered 29 packages in Python Package Index (PyPI), the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language, that aim to infect developers\u2019 machines with a malware called W4SP Stealer. \u201cThe main attack seems to have started around October 12, 2022, slowly picking up steam to a concentrated effort around October 22,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}