The ongoing Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign has struck again, this time trojanizing 19 Python packages on PyPI, many of them popular bioinformatics tools like Dynamo, Spateo, CoolBox, and Napari-UFISH that have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. Discovered by Socket, the wave pushed 37 malicious package versions from what looks like a single compromised maintainer, each carrying code that steals developer secrets such as cloud keys and tokens, then uses them to spread further. PyPI has quarantined affected releases. The credential-stealing behavior and tactics match earlier Shai-Hulud activity tied to the group TeamPCP, whose worm code leaked publicly last month.
Hackers compromised the Telnyx Python SDK on PyPI and hid malware inside .wav sound files - disguised as audio to bypass security scanners. Versions 4.87.1 and 4.87.2 were poisoned - just importing the package triggers the attack. It grabs SSH keys, cloud credentials, and can hijack Kubernetes clusters. The malicious versions were live for about 6 hours before PyPI quarantined them.
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