{"id":229624,"date":"2026-01-23T01:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/malicious-pypi-package-impersonates-sympy-deploys-xmrig-miner-on-linux-hosts"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:21:55","slug":"malicious-pypi-package-impersonates-sympy-deploys-xmrig-miner-on-linux-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/malicious-pypi-package-impersonates-sympy-deploys-xmrig-miner-on-linux-hosts","title":{"rendered":"Malicious PyPI Package Impersonates SymPy, Deploys XMRig Miner on Linux Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malicious-pypi-package-impersonates-sympy-deploys-xmrig-miner-on-linux-hosts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fake sympy-dev package on PyPI impersonates the SymPy library to download and run XMRig cryptominers on Linux using in-memory execution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fake sympy-dev package on PyPI impersonates the SymPy library to download and run XMRig cryptominers on Linux using in-memory execution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229624","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=229624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}