{"id":2458,"date":"2024-10-30T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/researchers-uncover-python-package-targeting-crypto-wallets-with-malicious-code\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:12:50","slug":"researchers-uncover-python-package-targeting-crypto-wallets-with-malicious-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/researchers-uncover-python-package-targeting-crypto-wallets-with-malicious-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Uncover Python Package Targeting Crypto Wallets with Malicious Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious Python package that masquerades as a cryptocurrency trading tool but harbors functionality designed to steal sensitive data and drain assets from victims&#8217; crypto wallets.<br \/>\nThe package, named &#8220;CryptoAITools,&#8221; is said to have been distributed via both Python Package Index (PyPI) and bogus GitHub repositories. It was downloaded over 1,300\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious Python package that masquerades as a cryptocurrency trading tool but harbors functionality designed to steal sensitive data and drain assets from victims&#8217; crypto wallets.<br \/>\nThe package, named &#8220;CryptoAITools,&#8221; is said to have been distributed via both Python Package Index (PyPI) and bogus GitHub repositories. It was downloaded over 1,300\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious Python package that masquerades as a cryptocurrency trading tool but harbors functionality designed to steal sensitive data and drain assets from victims&#8217; crypto wallets. The package, named &#8220;CryptoAITools,&#8221; is said to have been distributed via both Python Package Index (PyPI) and bogus GitHub repositories. It was downloaded over&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/researchers-uncover-python-package-targeting-crypto-wallets-with-malicious-code\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Researchers Uncover Python Package Targeting Crypto Wallets with Malicious Code<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}