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Malicious PyPi package steals Discord auth tokens from devs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by kid to c/cybersecurity

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

the malicious package was added to PyPi last year in June and has been downloaded 885 times so far.

That's a pretty long time to go undetected. Makes you wonder how many other similar packages there currently are, yet to be discovered, in PyPi, npm and others.