{"id":44030,"date":"2024-07-09T15:53:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=44030"},"modified":"2024-07-09T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:53:29","slug":"stack-overflow-links-pushing-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/09\/stack-overflow-links-pushing-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Stack Overflow Links Pushing Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/cybercriminals-pose-as-helpful-stack-overflow-users-to-push-malware\/\">Lawrence Abrams<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40521229\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/cybercriminals-pose-as-helpful-stack-overflow-users-to-push-malware\/\"><p>Cybercriminals are abusing Stack Overflow in an interesting approach to spreading malware&mdash;answering users&rsquo; questions by promoting a malicious PyPi package that installs Windows information-stealing malware.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>This PyPi package is named &lsquo;pytoileur&rsquo; and was uploaded by threat actors to the PyPi repository over the weekend, claiming it was an API management tool. Notice how the package has the &ldquo;Cool package&rdquo; string in the Summary metadata field, indicating it is part of this ongoing campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/04\/longstanding-cocoapods-vulnerabities\/\">Longstanding CocoaPods Vulnerabities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Abrams (via Hacker News): Cybercriminals are abusing Stack Overflow in an interesting approach to spreading malware&mdash;answering users&rsquo; questions by promoting a malicious PyPi package that installs Windows information-stealing malware.[&#8230;]This PyPi package is named &lsquo;pytoileur&rsquo; and was uploaded by threat actors to the PyPi repository over the weekend, claiming it was an API management tool. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-07-09T19:53:33Z","apple_news_api_id":"c075564f-b84c-42b9-832d-fb506126392f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-07-09T19:53:33Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwHVWT7hMQrmDLftQYSY5Lw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[504,991,355,71,232,1877,96,219],"class_list":["post-44030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-malware","tag-open-source-software","tag-privacy","tag-programming","tag-python","tag-stack-overflow","tag-web","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44031,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44030\/revisions\/44031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}