Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a library from the Solana blockchain platform but is actually designed to steal victims' secrets. "The legitimate Solana Python API project is known as 'solana-py' on GitHub, but simply 'solana' on the Python software registry, PyPI," Sonatype researcher Ax Sharma said in a report published last week. "This slight naming discrepancy has been leveraged by a threat actor who published a 'solana-py' project on PyPI." The malicious "solana-py" package attracted a total of 1,122 downloads since it was published on August 4, 2024. It's no longer available for download from PyPI. The most striking aspect of the library is that it carried the version numbers 0.34.3, 0.34.4, and 0.34.5. The latest version of the legitimate "solana" package is 0.34.3. This clearly indicates an attempt on the part of the threat actor to trick users looking for "solana" into inadvertently downloading "solana-py" instead. What's more, the rogue package borrows the real code from its counterpart, but injects additional code in the "init.py" script that's responsible for harvesting Solana blockchain wallet keys from the system. This information is then exfiltrated to a Hugging Face Spaces domain operated by the threat actor ("treeprime-gen.hf[.]space"), once again underscoring how threat actors are abusing legitimate services for malicious purposes. The attack campaign…Read More