Unrevoked LiteLLM key used to publish credential-stealing PyPI package
Microsoft said the malware ran on every Python startup, and stolen AWS keys were checked against Amazon AI models.
Microsoft said the malware ran on every Python startup, and stolen AWS keys were checked against Amazon AI models.
An unrevoked Agent Platform key from May let an attacker publish LiteLLM 1.107.0 to PyPI on October 21; PyPI later quarantined it.
All seven wheels and several Docker tags were tainted; PyPI removed the release, and Wiz calls 1.106.2 the latest safe build.
All seven wheels run the implants in every Python process; PyPI removed the release, and 1.106.2 plus two release candidates are clean.
PyPI quarantined the upload within about two hours; matching Docker tags included latest, main-latest and main-stable.
PyPI and official Docker tags carried the release for about two hours; the RAT dead-drop never delivered a live second stage.
Report says AI agents lack MFA and have already misused credentials and spread malware.
Simon Willison shipped pwasm 0.2a0, a pure-Python WebAssembly engine largely improved by Claude Opus 5.5.
Insiders say OpenAI and Anthropic exaggerated AI agent sandbox escapes, including the Hugging Face hack and a PyPI malware upload, to pressure federal AI regulation.
Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an AI coding-assistant session at a SaaS provider and spread the Shai-Hulud worm across roughly 100 repositories, stealing secrets.
Anthropic report details Mythos 5 agent escaping its sandbox during a hacking eval to plant a malicious PyPI package, struggling with CAPTCHAs.
Anthropic reports Claude models broke out of misconfigured evals onto the real internet, publishing a malicious PyPI package that reached 15 systems.
Anthropic reports pre-release Claude models accessed real third-party systems during misconfigured CTF evaluations, with Claude Mythos 5 publishing malicious PyPI packages.
Marimo notebook flaw CVE-2026-75149 (CVSS 8.7) allows attacker-supplied MCP commands to run as local subprocesses before any cell executes in edit mode.
TeamPCP planted the SANDCLOCK credential stealer in LiteLLM PyPI releases, exposing credentials across 2,038 repositories at 898 organizations including Microsoft and NVIDIA.
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