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Obfuscated PyPI Packages Purporting to be i18n Libraries Actually Stealing Telegram Data

Obfuscated PyPI Packages Purporting to be i18n Libraries Actually Stealing Telegram Data

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Phylum discovered two packages published to PyPI on October 28 that claim to be libraries for simplifying internationalization. The files were highly obfuscated and upon further inspection were found to contain malicious code designed to steal
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