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Coordinated npm and PyPI Campaign Typosquats Popular Secure Payment Apps

calendar_today July 7, 2026 person Joseph Edwards domain socket-dev

Socket’s AI scanner detected a cluster of npm and PyPI malware published on July 7, 2026. The 17 packages, published nearly simultaneously, target SDK developers and users of the popular PaySafe, Skrill and Neteller payment applications. Ultimately, the packages perform credential and token theft, exfiltrating stolen data to AWS infrastructure.

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