{"id":8013,"date":"2026-05-07T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/pypi-packages-deliver-zichatbot-malware-via-zulip-apis-on-windows-and-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:20:42","slug":"pypi-packages-deliver-zichatbot-malware-via-zulip-apis-on-windows-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/pypi-packages-deliver-zichatbot-malware-via-zulip-apis-on-windows-and-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"PyPI Packages Deliver ZiChatBot Malware via Zulip APIs on Windows and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered three packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to stealthily deliver a previously unknown malware family called\u00a0ZiChatBot on Windows and Linux systems.<br \/>\n&#8220;While these wheel packages do implement the features described on their PyPI web pages, their true purpose is to covertly deliver malicious files,&#8221; Kaspersky\u00a0\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to stealthily deliver a previously unknown malware family called\u00a0ZiChatBot on Windows and Linux systems.<br \/>\n&#8220;While these wheel packages do implement the features described on their PyPI web pages, their true purpose is to covertly deliver malicious files,&#8221; Kaspersky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered three packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to stealthily deliver a previously unknown malware family called\u00a0ZiChatBot on Windows and Linux systems. &#8220;While these wheel packages do implement the features described on their PyPI web pages, their true purpose is to covertly deliver malicious files,&#8221; Kaspersky\u00a0\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/pypi-packages-deliver-zichatbot-malware-via-zulip-apis-on-windows-and-linux\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PyPI Packages Deliver ZiChatBot Malware via Zulip APIs on Windows and Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8014,"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\/8013"}],"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=8013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}