{"id":2456,"date":"2025-03-08T07:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T07:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/this-malicious-pypi-package-stole-html\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T07:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T07:04:13","slug":"this-malicious-pypi-package-stole-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/this-malicious-pypi-package-stole-html\/","title":{"rendered":"This Malicious PyPI Package Stole Ethereum Private Keys via Polygon RPC Transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    This Malicious PyPI Package Stole Ethereum Private Keys via Polygon RPC Transactions<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s equipped to steal a victim&#8217;s Ethereum private keys by impersonating popular libraries.<br \/>\nThe package in question is set-utils, which has received 1,077 downloads to date. It&#8217;s no longer available for download from the official registry.<br \/>\n&#8220;Disguised as a simple utility for Python<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/03\/this-malicious-pypi-package-stole.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Malicious PyPI Package Stole Ethereum Private Keys via Polygon RPC Transactions Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s equipped to steal a victim&#8217;s Ethereum private keys by impersonating popular libraries. The package in question is set-utils, which has received 1,077 downloads to date. It&#8217;s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}