HighPyPI5 affected versions

uuid32-utils

uuid32-utils has 5 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 uuid32-utils.

uuid32-utils@1.0.4
uuid32-utils@1.0.3
uuid32-utils@1.0.2
uuid32-utils@1.0.1
uuid32-utils@1.0.0

The incident that flagged it

High8 May 2026

OceanLotus-attributed ZiChatBot PyPI droppers: uuid32-utils, colorinal, termncolor with Zulip-API C2

Kaspersky GReAT (2026-05-08) re-attributed three PyPI wheels uploaded by an attacker between 2025-07-16 and 2025-07-22 - uuid32-utils, colorinal, and termncolor - to the Vietnam-aligned OceanLotus (APT32) group. The droppers fetch a Windows DLL or Linux .so, persist via Run-key or crontab, and load ZiChatBot, a Python backdoor that uses public Zulip REST APIs as its C2 channel to blend with normal developer traffic.

Versions named here: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4

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 uuid32-utils 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.