Information about the victims of the phishing scam, which administrators of the Python package repository PyPI (Python Package Index) warned about recently, has been revealed. As a result of messages sent to confirm users' emails, which linked to a fraudulent site pypj.org (the letter 'j' instead of 'i'), accounts of 4 maintainers were compromised. <\/p>\n
As a result, attackers generated two tokens for API access and published two releases of the num2words project (0.5.15 and 0.5.16), which contained malicious code. The num2words module, which has over 3 million downloads per month, provides functions for converting numbers to their textual representation. The malicious num2words releases were removed by PyPI administrators an hour after publication. <\/p>\n
To bypass account protection using two-factor authentication, the attackers used transparent traffic proxying from the phishing site pypj.org to the real site pypi.org, creating an illusion for the user of working with the actual PyPI directory. The login page was also proxied, and attackers controlled not only the initially entered login password but also the response to the second-factor authentication verification request. <\/p>\n
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