Malicious code in env-validator-tool (PyPI)

Overview

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Source: kam193 (6154c04795237a4ea3c9a29df7ef65a739056eeb3f20a198890bab3eb416f9ff)

In this campaign, one package contains malicious code exfiltrating environment variables during import (telemetry-helper), and another one intentionally installs it as a dependency.

Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2026-09-telemetry-helper

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• exfiltration-env-variables

• The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

Affected packages

• env-validator-tool

Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.