LiteLLM Distributes Malware Stealing Crypto Secrets

On Mar. 24 an attacker used a compromised maintainer account to publish two malicious LiteLLM releases (1.82.7 and 1.82.8) to PyPI, with 1.82.8 planting a .pth that executed at every Python startup. The payload exfiltrated crypto wallets, Solana validator keys, SSH/cloud credentials, and Kubernetes secrets across 46,996 downloads in 46 minutes; PyPI quarantined the builds and LiteLLM removed them.
Scoring Rationale
High immediacy and confirmed exfiltration across PyPI, but impact concentrates on Python developer and crypto ecosystems rather than universal infrastructure.
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