On October 21, attackers compromised the release pipeline of LiteLLM, an open-source Python SDK and AI gateway with about 92 million monthly PyPI downloads. They published malicious version 1.107.0 to PyPI, Docker Hub and GHCR. The payload steals cloud, AI, developer and browser credentials and loads remote-code execution tools. All seven…
On October 21, 2026, attackers compromised the LiteLLM release pipeline and published malicious version 1.107.0 to PyPI, Docker Hub and GHCR. The package carried a credential stealer ("privcollect") and a backdoor that runs remote code every hour, effectively a RAT. LiteLLM suspects the attacker obtained developer GitHub CLI OAuth tokens …
LiteLLM version 1.107.0 was compromised in a supply chain attack that distributed credential-stealing malware through PyPI wheels and container images. On October 21, 2026, Socket reported that malicious Python startup hooks run even when an application never imports LiteLLM, exposing cloud credentials, developer secrets and AI tool authe…
SafeDep reports that the PolinRider loader family now resolves its C2 servers from Ethereum mainnet. The loader reads small transactions from operator wallets and decodes the recipient address as an IP:port. SafeDep confirmed 35 GitHub repositories carrying the loader at HEAD on 2026-09-30 (7,578 stars and 2,884 forks combined). The inves…
SafeDep identified a malicious tensorlake npm release, version 0.5.144 (about 106,000 monthly downloads), that ran a Mini Shai-Hulud worm on install. It was published at 01:12:07 UTC on 8 October and flagged by SafeDep eight minutes later. The attacker used a repository administrator account to commit the payload to main through the GitHu…
Between 19 and 22 October 2026, an operator published 15 npm packages whose names end in testmetest, carrying a Miasma-family self-propagating worm. The malicious versions steal credentials, spread to other packages and repositories, and install a wiper that deletes the victim's home directory when the stolen GitHub token is revoked. Safe…
Researchers at SafeDep identified imgdecode, a malicious npm package tied to the long-running MALFEX supply chain campaign first documented by Checkmarx and CloudSEK. Published on September 30, 2026 by user "malfexteste8", it has been downloaded 979 times and was still available at the time of reporting (latest version 1.0.3). MALFEX has …
Elastic Security Labs is tracking REF8801, a campaign in which a fake Web3 venture capital accelerator, Apex Accelerator (Apex Foundation), targets cryptocurrency startups and founders with malicious npm packages. The packages, @apexacc/cli and @apexacc/audit, pose as an AI advisor and an MCP-based security scanner, with offers of free Cl…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup (Week 39, 2026) covers one law enforcement success and two active threat campaigns. A US court sentenced Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan ("Maneeken"/"Karl Lagerfeld"), an initial access specialist for Ryuk ransomware, to two years in prison and over $1.2 million in restitution. SentinelLABS ide…
Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …
The LiteLLM release 1.107.0 (a widely used open source LLM proxy and AI gateway developed by BerriAI, about 23 million weekly downloads per theregister.com) was trojanized on PyPI on 21 October 2026 and carries a credential stealer (privcollect) plus a remote code execution backdoor. All wheels (Linux, macOS, Windows) drop three extra fil…