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PyPI Package Disguised as Instagram Growth Tool Harvests User Credentials
A deceptive PyPI package posing as an Instagram growth tool collects user credentials and sends them to third-party bot services.
This is a Python package that provides the function send
:
def send(
host,
port,
username,
password,
sender,
recipient,
subject,
html,
attachments=[]
):
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = sender
msg['To'] = recipient
msg['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
msg['Subject'] = subject
msg.attach(MIMEText(html, 'html'))
for attachment in attachments:
msg.attach(attachment)
# Send it off via smtp.mail.me.com
context = create_default_context()
with SMTP(host, port) as smtp:
smtp.starttls(context=context)
smtp.login(username, password)
smtp.sendmail(sender, recipient, msg.as_string())
pip install smtp-emailer
from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication
from smtp_emailer import send
attachment = MIMEApplication(b"File contents", name="filename.txt")
attachment['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="filename.txt"'
send(
"smtp.mail.me.com",
587,
"username@icloud.com",
"<app-specific password>",
"Service Name <no-reply@example.org>",
"Recipient Name <recipient@example.org>",
"Re: Example Subject",
"<h1>Example email</h1><p>This is an example email.</p>",
[attachment],
)
FAQs
Simple utility for sending emails via SMTP.
We found that smtp-emailer demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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