{"id":3665,"date":"2025-03-07T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/this-malicious-pypi-package-stole-ethereum-private-keys-via-polygon-rpc-transactions\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:11:52","slug":"this-malicious-pypi-package-stole-ethereum-private-keys-via-polygon-rpc-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/this-malicious-pypi-package-stole-ethereum-private-keys-via-polygon-rpc-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"This Malicious PyPI Package Stole Ethereum Private Keys via Polygon RPC Transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s equipped to steal a victim&#8217;s Ethereum private keys by impersonating popular libraries.<br \/>\nThe package in question is set-utils, which has received 1,077 downloads to date. It&#8217;s no longer available for download from the official registry.<br \/>\n&#8220;Disguised as a simple utility for Python\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s equipped to steal a victim&#8217;s Ethereum private keys by impersonating popular libraries.<br \/>\nThe package in question is set-utils, which has received 1,077 downloads to date. It&#8217;s no longer available for download from the official registry.<br \/>\n&#8220;Disguised as a simple utility for Python\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s equipped to steal a victim&#8217;s Ethereum private keys by impersonating popular libraries. The package in question is set-utils, which has received 1,077 downloads to date. It&#8217;s no longer available for download from the official registry. &#8220;Disguised as a simple&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/this-malicious-pypi-package-stole-ethereum-private-keys-via-polygon-rpc-transactions\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Malicious PyPI Package Stole Ethereum Private Keys via Polygon RPC Transactions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3666,"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\/3665"}],"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=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}