MAL-2026-19936: Malicious code in gateio-sdk (PyPI)

Published Nov 14, 2026
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Source: kam193 (daf0fb9836af133a053a98dbd88106efeaccd310d038b52f596a53be0efc6f76) Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.

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

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-env-variables

- exfiltration-generic

- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

- typosquatting

Affected Software

1 affected component
pip/gateio-sdk=99.99.1, =99.99.2

Event History

Nov 14, 2026
Advisory Published
via OSV·05:17 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·05:17 PM
DescriptionAffected Software

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