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12 Python libraries were identified as malicious packages.
colourama
was financially-motivated and hijacked an infected users' operating system clipboard, where it would scan every 500ms for a Bitcoin address-like string, which it would replace with the attacker's own Bitcoin address in an attempt to hijack Bitcoin payments/transfers made by an infected user.
On October 13th, 2018 all of these packages have been removed from Pypi.