TrapDoor Cross-Ecosystem Crypto Stealer Campaign
The TrapDoor campaign is a critical cross-ecosystem supply-chain attack targeting npm, PyPI, and Crates.io packages. It employs various execution methods to steal sensitive developer and cloud credentials, as well as crypto wallet information. The campaign has been tracked by Socket, which has identified over 34 malicious packages and numerous related versions.
- ▪TrapDoor is an active software supply-chain campaign reported by Socket on May 24, 2026.
- ▪The campaign targets SSH keys, GitHub tokens, AWS credentials, and crypto wallet material.
- ▪Socket tracks more than 34 malicious packages and 384 related versions tied to this campaign.
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Record
| Original publisher | Haltingproblems |
| Canonical URL | https://haltingproblems.com/analysis/trapdoor-cross-ecosystem-crypto-stealer/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 20:19:42 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-24T20:37:34.510Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-24T20:37:34.510Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | kEa9FTVqG1Sy · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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TrapDoor Cross-Ecosystem Crypto Stealer Campaign TrapDoor is an active cross-registry supply-chain campaign using npm postinstall hooks, PyPI import-time execution, and Rust build scripts to steal developer, cloud, SSH, and crypto wallet secrets. Date: 2026-05-24 Severity: critical Sources: 5 #supply-chain#npm#pypi#crates.io#credential-theft#crypto Executive Summary TrapDoor is an active software supply-chain campaign reported by Socket on May 24, 2026, spanning npm, PyPI, and Crates.io packages aimed at crypto, DeFi, AI, and developer-security workflows Socket. Socket tracks more than 34 malicious packages and 384 or more related versions/artifacts, while OSV already lists several PyPI malicious-package records tied to the same 2026-05-eth-security-auditor campaign Socket OSV PyPI list.
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