{"id":4668,"date":"2025-06-16T07:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/malicious-pypi-package-masquerades-as-html\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:03:29","slug":"malicious-pypi-package-masquerades-as-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/malicious-pypi-package-masquerades-as-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious PyPI Package Masquerades as Chimera Module to Steal AWS, CI\/CD, and macOS Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Malicious PyPI Package Masquerades as Chimera Module to Steal AWS, CI\/CD, and macOS Data<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 package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s capable of harvesting sensitive developer-related information, such as credentials, configuration data, and environment variables, among others.<br \/>\nThe package, named chimera-sandbox-extensions, attracted 143 downloads and likely targets users of a service called Chimera Sandbox,<\/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\/06\/malicious-pypi-package-masquerades-as.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious PyPI Package Masquerades as Chimera Module to Steal AWS, CI\/CD, and macOS Data Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s capable of harvesting sensitive developer-related information, such as credentials, configuration data, and environment variables, among others. The package, named chimera-sandbox-extensions, attracted 143 downloads and likely targets [&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-4668","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\/4668"}],"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=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}