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Malicious code in taskquay (PyPI)

Malware Published Oct 23, 2026 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 29, 2026

Package

pip taskquay (pip)

Affected versions

= 0.1.0

Patched versions

None

Description

Source: kam193 (692f4bcca72a6b53c989001619446e8b3b5bd66716674ca8230baa6d9d4c60a5)

This campaign consists of similar loader packages, which provide executing code from a given URL. While they do not contain the malicious payload and the usage remains unknown, they are clearly a coordinated campaign to place multiple deceptive ways to load malicious code.

Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2026-10-voice-synthesis-profiles

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • other

  • Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

Credit: OpenSSF (source)

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 23, 2026
Reviewed Oct 23, 2026
Last updated Oct 29, 2026

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Embedded Malicious Code

The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature. Learn more on MITRE.

GHSA ID

GHSA-7q8j-w7hr-738m

Source code

No known source code
Improvements are not currently accepted on this advisory because this package is malware and has no patched versions. If there is something to change, please open an issue at https://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues.