Oct. 12, 2023, 12:35 a.m. | Phylum Research Team

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On October 6, 2023, Phylum’s automated risk detection platform alerted us to a suspicious publication on NuGet. After working through several layers of obfuscation we ultimately discovered that this package was delivering SeroXen RAT.

Background

The package in question is Pathoschild.Stardew.Mod.Build.Config published by a

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