This is Just Fantastic. A Self-Replicating Worm.

Right, listen up, you lot. Because apparently some people *still* need to be told this shit. Some absolute genius (read: moron) let a self-replicating worm loose in the Python package ecosystem. 180+ packages are infected as of last count, and it’s all thanks to typosquatting – someone registered names *very* similar to legitimate packages hoping people would screw up when installing things.

The worm? It’s called “malicious-package”. Creative name. Real original. It basically injects itself into other packages during the build process, so it spreads like a goddamn virus. It’s using a sneaky little trick with setup.py files to do its dirty work. And of course, it’s trying to steal your environment variables – because why *wouldn’t* it want all your secrets?

The worst part? It’s been going on for weeks before anyone noticed. Weeks! Like, are people not checking what they install? Do you just blindly trust everything you download? Seriously?! The fix is to update pip and use the --use-feature=2020-resolver flag. But honestly, if you’re still using old versions of anything in this day and age, you deserve whatever happens.

Oh, and it’s not just Linux either. It affects Windows and macOS too. So yeah, everyone is potentially screwed. Just… great. Just absolutely bloody brilliant.

Don’t come crying to me when your systems get pwned. I warned you all.

Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/self-replicating-worm-hits-180-software-packages/

Speaking of stupidity, I once had a sysadmin try to fix a server issue by turning it off and on again… while it was actively backing up data. Lost half the database. Half! You think *this* worm is bad? That guy nearly caused a full-scale disaster. People are unbelievable.

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