Lazarus Exploits Typos to Sneak PyPI Malware into Dev Systems

Lazarus Exploits Typos to Sneak PyPI Malware into Dev Systems


The notorious North Korean state-backed hacking group Lazarus uploaded four packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with the goal of infecting developer systems with malware.
The packages, now taken down, are pycryptoenv, pycryptoconf, quasarlib, and swapmempool. They have been collectively downloaded 3,269 times, with pycryptoconf accounting for the most

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