Malicious code in paysafe-payments (PyPI)

Overview

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Source: kam193 (cc8e13806589e7fbb3dbe284624b88d6de8c030f32c04c20f8c76af059f33515)

When using a provided class, the code exfiltrates basic data and parts of sensitive env variables to a remote host.

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

Campaign: 2026-07-paysafe-api

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• exfiltration-env-variables

• dependency-confusion

• action-hidden-in-lib-usage

• The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

• obfuscation

Affected packages

• paysafe-payments

Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.