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Python Users: BIPClip Is After Your Bitcoin Wallet, Via PyPI

With Bitcoin values hovering over $70,000, the cryptocurrency has become a big deal again. So it can come as no surprise that cybersecurity firm ReversingLabs has uncovered a nefarious hacking campaign aimed at pilfering cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases. And that campaign uses Python as its base. Dubbed “BIPClip,” it cleverly exploits the Python Package Index (PyPI) by masquerading as a useful open source library. This sophisticated operation involves seven ingeniously crafted open source ...

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