Malicious PyPI Package Impersonates SymPy, Deploys XMRig Miner on Linux Hosts
- Posted on January 22, 2026
- By The Hacker News
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Malicious PyPI Package Impersonates SymPy, Deploys XMRig Miner on Linux Hosts
A fake sympy-dev package on PyPI impersonates the SymPy library to download and run XMRig cryptominers on Linux using in-memory execution.
