MAL-2026-19937: Malicious code in gateio-ws (PyPI)

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Source: kam193 (0f8978dc13690cab2fe33ad377e4c09bb1fa181ecd2fbba9fc1b2e7c17f8d70f) 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