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Home/Malicious Packages/jeIlyfish (typosquat of jellyfish)
Supply-Chain Attack

jeIlyfish (typosquat of jellyfish)

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A typosquat replacing the 'l' in jellyfish with a capital 'I' stole SSH and GPG keys from developers who mistyped the name.

Attack type
Typosquat
Ecosystem
PyPI
Year
2019
Severity
High

Impact

Lived on PyPI for ~a year alongside python3-dateutil (typosquat of dateutil) before removal.

What is typosquat?

A package published under a name that mimics a popular one, hoping developers mistype or copy it.

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