In the latest chapter of ‘Humans vs. Hackers’, cybercriminals have shown us that not even beloved payment processing libraries are safe from their clutches. This time, they decided to play a high-stakes game of ‘Who Wore It Best’ by impersonating the popular Stripe.Net library. Because if you’re going to steal, why not steal the source code of the source of all financial transactions?

This cheeky stunt, reminiscent of toddlers dressing up in their parents’ shoes, involved the cunningly named ‘StripeApi.Net’, a package designed to dupe developers into handing over their API tokens faster than you can say, ‘What could possibly go wrong?’. Uploading it to NuGet, the scammers apparently banked on developers missing that subtle yet significant difference in the dot placement—because who ever reads the fine print, right?

While the package didn’t exactly garner 75 million downloads (that’s the real Stripe.Net’s jam), it did succeed in proving once again that the only thing larger than the pool of unsuspecting developers is the ocean of hacker audacity. So, remember, folks, always check twice before downloading; after all, the devil wears a slightly different file name.