Massive PyPI Supply Chain Attack Harvests Cloud Credentials via Python Startup Hooks
A coordinated supply chain attack targeting PyPI has compromised 26 packages (37 malicious wheel files) across bioinformatics, graph ML, deep-learning, and developer tooling ecosystems. Dubbed the “Hades Campaign” and attributed to the Miasma/Shai-Hulud threat lineage, the attack exploits a legitimate Python feature to execute malicious code at interpreter startup, aggressively harvesting cloud credentials and exfiltrating …