{"id":4043,"date":"2025-04-15T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/malicious-pypi-package-targets-mexc-trading-api-to-steal-credentials-and-redirect-orders\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:16:01","slug":"malicious-pypi-package-targets-mexc-trading-api-to-steal-credentials-and-redirect-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/malicious-pypi-package-targets-mexc-trading-api-to-steal-credentials-and-redirect-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious PyPI Package Targets MEXC Trading API to Steal Credentials and Redirect Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed a malicious package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s designed to reroute trading orders placed on the MEXC cryptocurrency exchange to a malicious server and steal tokens.<br \/>\nThe package, ccxt-mexc-futures, purports to be an extension built on top of a popular Python library named ccxt (short for CryptoCurrency eXchange Trading),\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a malicious package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s designed to reroute trading orders placed on the MEXC cryptocurrency exchange to a malicious server and steal tokens.<br \/>\nThe package, ccxt-mexc-futures, purports to be an extension built on top of a popular Python library named ccxt (short for CryptoCurrency eXchange Trading),\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed a malicious package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that&#8217;s designed to reroute trading orders placed on the MEXC cryptocurrency exchange to a malicious server and steal tokens. The package, ccxt-mexc-futures, purports to be an extension built on top of a popular Python library named ccxt (short for CryptoCurrency&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/malicious-pypi-package-targets-mexc-trading-api-to-steal-credentials-and-redirect-orders\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malicious PyPI Package Targets MEXC Trading API to Steal Credentials and Redirect Orders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4044,"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\/4043"}],"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=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}