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Malicious PyPI Package ‘pycord-self’ Targets Discord Developers with Token Theft and Backdoor Exploit
Socket researchers uncover the risks of a malicious Python package targeting Discord developers.
No one should be using this module since it's not being maintained anymore. This repository and the package will still be online for research purpose only.
To interact with gzipped tarballs please use the tar module instead: https://npmjs/com/tar
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The npm package tar.gz receives a total of 4,377 weekly downloads. As such, tar.gz popularity was classified as popular.
We found that tar.gz demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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