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Citrine Sleet Poisons PyPI Packages With Mac & Linux Malware

ID: 72abda3f-b584-541e-b739-2ea33521eaca

STIX ID: report--72abda3f-b584-541e-b739-2ea33521eaca

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2024-09-20

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

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Unit 42 attributes a supply-chain campaign to DPRK-linked APT Gleaming Pisces (Citrine Sleet), which uploaded malicious PyPI packages (e.g., `real-ids`, `minisound`, `coloredtxt`, `beautifultext`) that decode and execute payloads to retrieve the PondRAT remote-access Trojan for macOS and Linux; the packages were taken down but illustrate developer-targeted supply-chain and social-engineering tactics.

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