CriticalPyPI2 affected versions

telegram-helper

telegram-helper has 2 versions on PyPI flagged in 1 incident we track. Other versions of this package are not implicated - only the exact versions listed below were named by the source advisories.

Affected versions

Check what you actually have installed with pip show telegram-helper.

telegram-helper@0.1.2
telegram-helper@0.1.1

The incident that flagged it

Critical8 Sept 2026

GitHub Advisory malware sweep - 2026-09-07/08 large corporate-namespace dep-confusion wave (Air Canada, Medisend, OPAP, Optimizely/Fastly, MATLAB/Azure DevOps, SimpliSafe, Tidal, PayPal, Twilio, Afterpay, Ecobee, Karapace, Glia, Jobber, Feishu, BMC, Coinbase-adjacent) + oast.online-beaconed probe cluster + 2026-09-08 fresh drops

Between 2026-09-07 and 2026-09-08 UTC GHSA flushed 100+ npm advisories in a single wave dominated by corporate-namespace dep-confusion probes (Air Canada, Medisend, Swisscom, OPAP, Optimizely/Fastly, MATLAB/Azure DevOps, SimpliSafe, Tidal, PayPal, Twilio, Afterpay, Ecobee, Karapace, Glia, Jobber, Feishu, BMC, and more). Two probes exposed shared IOCs (oast.online + 5.189.159.252). Plus 2026-09-08 fresh drops (krdpass-auth-react-native, PyPI telegram-helper).

Versions named here: 0.1.1, 0.1.2

What to do if you installed one of these

Treat the machine as compromised rather than simply upgrading. Packages in these incidents typically execute at install time, so the payload has already run with whatever credentials were in the environment.

1.Rotate every credential that machine or CI job could reach - registry tokens, cloud keys, SSH keys, CI secrets - from a different machine.
2.Pin to a version not listed above, then reinstall from a clean lockfile.
3.Clear caches and private mirrors. Artifactory, Nexus, Verdaccio, and devpi routinely keep serving a tarball after the public registry has pulled it.
4.Read the incident write-up above - recommended actions differ per incident, and some have specific indicators of compromise worth grepping your logs for.

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Other packages in the same incident

If telegram-helper is in your tree, these are worth checking too - they were published by the same campaign.

See the full incident

Version data comes from the public advisories cited on each incident page. We list only versions those advisories name - we don't infer additional ones. Think this is wrong or incomplete? Tell us.