{"id":3308,"date":"2025-04-16T07:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/malicious-pypi-package-targets-mexc-html\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:04:01","slug":"malicious-pypi-package-targets-mexc-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/malicious-pypi-package-targets-mexc-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious PyPI Package Targets MEXC Trading API to Steal Credentials and Redirect Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Malicious PyPI Package Targets MEXC Trading API to Steal Credentials and Redirect Orders<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 disclosed a malicious package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s designed to reroute trading orders placed on the MEXC cryptocurrency exchange to a malicious server and steal tokens.<br \/>\nThe package, ccxt-mexc-futures, purports to be an extension built on top of a popular Python library named ccxt (short for CryptoCurrency eXchange Trading),<\/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\/04\/malicious-pypi-package-targets-mexc.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious PyPI Package Targets MEXC Trading API to Steal Credentials and Redirect Orders Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a malicious package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s designed to reroute trading orders placed on the MEXC cryptocurrency exchange to a malicious server and steal tokens. The package, ccxt-mexc-futures, purports to be an extension [&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-3308","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\/3308"}],"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=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}