On August 8, CheckPoint published a report on ten malicious Python packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI), the most popular Python repository among software developers. The malicious packages were intended to steal developers’ personal data and credentials.
Following this research, Kaspersky used their internal automated system for monitoring open-source repositories and discovered two other malicious Python packages in the PyPI. They were masquerading as one of the most popular open-source packages named “requests“.
The attacker used a description of the legitimate “requests” package in order to trick victims into installing a malicious one. The description contains faked statistics, as if the package was installed 230 million times in a month and has more than 48000 “stars” on GitHub.
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Source: Kaspersky