On May 10, 2024, Phylum’s automated risk detection platform alerted us to a suspicious publication on PyPI. The package was called requests-darwin-lite and appeared to be a fork of the ever-popular requests package with a few key differences, most notably the inclusion of a malicious Go binary packed into
Our deep analysis of the Worok toolset (previously described by ESET Research) reveals the final stage, hidden in a PNG file, that steals data and provides a multifunctional backdoor using the DropBox repository and API.
Espionage group begins using new backdoor that leverages rarely seen steganography technique.
