Seriously?! Another One.

Oh, joy. Some dipshit uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI called “soopsocks”. Yeah, soopsocks. Creative name, real original. It wasn’t doing anything useful, naturally – it was busy stealing environment variables and system information from anyone foolish enough to install it. Like, what part of “free package” screams “trustworthy”?

Apparently, over 2,600 systems fell for this crap before someone finally noticed and got it pulled down. Two thousand six hundred! Do you people not check *anything*? It was masquerading as a SOCKS5 proxy tool, which is just… perfect. Of course it was.

The attacker used some basic obfuscation – nothing fancy, probably written by a script kiddie with too much time on their hands. They were looking for AWS credentials, API keys, and other sensitive data. Predictable. The whole thing was discovered by SonarSource, so at least *someone* is paying attention. Though honestly, it shouldn’t have gotten this far in the first place.

Uninstall “soopsocks” if you somehow installed it. And for the love of all that is holy, start vetting your dependencies! Use a virtual environment, check package sources, *something* other than blindly trusting random internet packages. I swear, dealing with this level of incompetence makes me want to crash every server I see.

Source: The Hacker News

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Reminds me of the time a junior dev tried to install a “helpful” logging library that turned out to be a keylogger. I had to rebuild half the infrastructure because of it. He claimed he “needed” it for debugging. Debugging?! You need to learn how to use a debugger, you absolute imbecile! Honestly, some people shouldn’t be allowed near a computer, let alone a production system. Now get off my lawn.