Tag: pypi
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Xinference PyPI Breach Exposes Developers to Cloud Credential Theft
A severe supply chain attack has compromised the popular Python package Xinference, exposing developers to massive data theft. Threat actors uploaded malicious versions of the tool to the Python Package Index (PyPI), embedding a heavily obfuscated infostealer into the code. Xinference has over 600,000 total downloads, making this a significant security event for the software…
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A Poisoned Xinference Package Targets AI Inference Servers
Three poisoned xinference releases on PyPI target AI infrastructure credentials. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/a-poisoned-xinference-package-targets-ai-inference-servers/
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Namastex npm Packages Spread TeamPCP-Style CanisterWorm Malware
Compromised Namastex npm packages are delivering a new TeamPCP-style CanisterWorm variant that targets developer secrets, browser and wallet data, and then attempts to spread across npm and PyPI ecosystems using canister-backed exfiltration infrastructure. The campaign closely mirrors the original CanisterWorm, reinforcing concerns that TeamPCP is continuing to refine its supply chain tooling against real-world development…
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Q1 2026 Open Source Malware Index: Adaptive Attacks, Familiar Weaknesses
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, cloud, credentials, crypto, data, github, guide, intelligence, kubernetes, linux, macOS, malicious, malware, open-source, pypi, risk, software, supply-chain, tactics, theft, tool, update, windows, worm<div cla TL;DR Sonatype identified 21,764 open source malware packages in Q1 2026, bringing the total logged since 2017 to 1,346,867. npm accounted for 75% of malicious packages this quarter. Trojans dominated, with most activity focused on credential theft, host reconnaissance, and staged payload delivery. The quarter’s defining pattern was trust abuse: attackers succeeded by…
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TeamPCP griff EU und Cisco an – Massive Supply-Chain-Angriffe über Trivy-Tool und Telnyx-PyPI
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/teampcp-supply-chain-angriffe-trivy-telnyx-a-ce4e1dc1ec2f5930ec814664eefd2541/
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N. Korean Hackers Spread 1,700 Malicious Packages Across npm, PyPI, Go, Rust
The North Korea-linked persistent campaign known as Contagious Interview has spread its tentacles by publishing malicious packages targeting the Go, Rust, and PHP ecosystems.”The threat actor’s packages were designed to impersonate legitimate developer tooling […], while quietly functioning as malware loaders, extending Contagious Interview’s established playbook into a coordinated First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…
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Trojanized PyPI AI Proxy Steals Claude Prompt, Exfiltrates Data
A malicious PyPI package, hermes-px, that masquerades as a “Secure AI Inference Proxy” while secretly stealing user prompts and abusing a private university AI service. Marketed as an OpenAI-compatible, Tor-routed proxy requiring no API keys, the package actually hijacks a Tunisian university’s internal AI endpoint, injects a stolen Anthropic Claude system prompt, and exfiltrates every…
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Supply Chain Attacks Surge in March 2026
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, awareness, cloud, container, control, corporate, credentials, crypto, data-breach, github, group, hacking, identity, infrastructure, Internet, kubernetes, least-privilege, linux, LLM, macOS, malicious, malware, mfa, network, north-korea, open-source, openai, phishing, pypi, software, startup, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, windowsIntroductionThere was a significant increase in software supply chain attacks in March 2026. There were five major software supply-chain attacks that occurred including the Axios NPM package compromise, which has been attributed to a North Korean threat actor. In addition, a hacking group known as TeamPCP was able to compromise Trivy (a vulnerability scanner), KICS…
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PyPI Telnyx Python SDK Backdoored to Steal Credentials on Windows, macOS, and Linux
Telnyx Python SDK on PyPI, using a multi”‘stage WAV steganography payload to steal credentials across Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The backdoor lives in telnyx/_client.py and is triggered at module scope, so simply importing telnyx is enough to execute the payload before any application code runs. The rogue releases remained available for roughly 6.5 hours before PyPI quarantined them…
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Attackers trojanize Axios HTTP library in highest-impact npm supply chain attack
Tags: ai, attack, breach, cloud, control, credentials, crypto, github, incident response, linux, LLM, macOS, malicious, malware, monitoring, open-source, openai, powershell, pypi, rat, spam, supply-chain, tool, windowspostinstall hook that would execute a dropper script when it was pulled in by a different package as a dependency.Shortly after midnight UTC on March 31 a new version of the Axios package, axios@1.14.1, was published on npm followed by axios@0.30.4 39 minutes later. Both listed plain-crypto-js@4.2.1 as a dependency in their package.json files, but…
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TeamPCP’s attack spree slows, but threat escalates with ransomware pivot
TeamPCP’s destructive run of supply chain breaches has stopped, for now: it has been three days since the group published malicious versions of Telnyx’s SDK on PyPI, and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/30/teampcp-supply-chain-attacks-ransomware/
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Telnyx Python SDK Backdoored on PyPI to Steal Cloud Credentials
The popular Telnyx Python SDK on PyPI to deploy a multi”‘stage credential”‘stealing operation that targets cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and developer environments at scale. On March 27, 2026, TeamPCP uploaded two malicious Telnyx SDK releases, versions 4.87.1 and 4.87.2, directly to PyPI at around 03:51 UTC, bypassing the normal GitHub”‘backed release flow used by the…
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Week in review: NIST updates DNS security guidance, compromised LiteLLM PyPI packages
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: NIST updates its DNS security guidance for the first time in over a decade … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/29/week-in-review-nist-updates-dns-security-guidance-compromised-litellm-pypi-packages/
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Backdoored Telnyx PyPI package pushes malware hidden in WAV audio
TeamPCP hackers compromised the Telnyx package on the Python Package Index today, uploading malicious versions that deliver credential-stealing malware hidden inside a WAV file. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/backdoored-telnyx-pypi-package-pushes-malware-hidden-in-wav-audio/
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TeamPCP strikes again: Backdoored Telnyx PyPI package delivers malware
TeamPCP continues is supply chain compromise rampage, with telnyx on PyPI being the latest maliciously modified package. What happened? Telnyx is a widely used software … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/27/teampcp-telnyx-supply-chain-compromise/
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TeamPCP Pushes Malicious Telnyx Versions to PyPI, Hides Stealer in WAV Files
TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the supply chain attack targeting Trivy, KICS, and litellm, has now compromised the telnyx Python package by pushing two malicious versions to steal sensitive data.The two versions, 4.87.1 and 4.87.2, published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository on March 27, 2026, concealed their credential harvesting capabilities within a .WAV…
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TeamPCP Targets Telnyx Package in Latest PyPI Software Supply Chain Attack
Socket and Endor Labs discovered a new TeamPCP campaign leading to the delivery of credential-stealing malware First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/teampcp-targets-telnyx-pypi-package/
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LiteLLM Hit in Cascading Supply-Chain Attack
Stolen Credentials From Trivy Breach Let Hackers Push Malware to PyPI. Threat group TeamPCP exploited credentials stolen in the Trivy breach to push malicious versions of LiteLLM to PyPI, exposing developers to credential theft, persistent backdoors and lateral movement tools within hours of publication. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/litellm-hit-in-cascading-supply-chain-attack-a-31210
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An Evolving GlassWorm Malware is Making the Rounds of Code Repositories
Threat researchers with various vendors for the past year have been tracking the efforts of a bad actor dubbed GlassWorm known for dropping malicious extensions in code registries like npm, Open VSX, PyPI, and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Marketplace with the aim of stealing secrets and cryptocurrency. This month, threat researchers wrote about a resurgence in..…
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LiteLLM PyPI packages compromised in expanding TeamPCP supply chain attacks
A slew of supply chain attacks against popular open source tools and packages appears to have been orchestrated by TeamPCP, a cybercriminal group that rose to prominence in … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/25/teampcp-supply-chain-attacks/
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TeamPCP Expands Supply Chain Campaign With LiteLLM PyPI Compromise
Python package LiteLLM compromised with credential-stealing malware linked to TeamPCP threat group First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/teampcp-litellm-pypi-supply-chain/
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PyPI warns developers after LiteLLM malware found stealing cloud and CI/CD credentials
Tags: access, advisory, api, attack, cloud, container, credentials, data, exploit, extortion, github, group, infrastructure, malicious, malware, open-source, pypi, supply-chain, tactics, tool, vulnerabilityAn expanding supply-chain campaign: The LiteLLM incident has been confirmed to be a part of the rapidly unfolding TeamPCP supply chain campaign that first compromised Trivy.Trivy, developed by Aqua Security, is a widely used open-source vulnerability scanner designed to identify security issues in container images, file systems, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) configurations. The ongoing attack, attributed…
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LiteLLM PyPI packages compromised in expanding TeamPCP supply chain attacks
A slew of supply chain attacks against popular open source tools and packages appears to have been orchestrated by TeamPCP, a cybercriminal group that rose to prominence in … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/25/teampcp-supply-chain-attacks/
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Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens
The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular “LiteLLM” Python package on PyPI and claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of devices during the attack. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-litellm-pypi-package-compromised-in-teampcp-supply-chain-attack/
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Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens
The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular “LiteLLM” Python package on PyPI and claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of devices during the attack. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-litellm-pypi-package-compromised-in-teampcp-supply-chain-attack/
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Compromised litellm PyPI Package Delivers Multi-Stage Credential Stealer
<div cla This morning, the widely used Python package litellm, a popular abstraction layer for interacting with large language models (LLMs), was compromised and two malicious versions released (1.82.7 and 1.82.8). First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/compromised-litellm-pypi-package-delivers-multi-stage-credential-stealer/
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Pyronut Package Backdoors Telegram Bots With RCE
Malicious ‘Pyronut’ is a trojanized Python package that backdoors Telegram bots and userbots, giving attackers remote code execution over both the Telegram session and the underlying host system.”‹ The malicious package , pyronut , was uploaded to PyPI as a fake alternative to pyrogram, a widely used Telegram MTProto API framework with around 370,000 monthly downloads. Instead of…
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GlassWorm Attack Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Force-Push Malware Into Python Repos
The GlassWorm malware campaign is being used to fuel an ongoing attack that leverages the stolen GitHub tokens to inject malware into hundreds of Python repositories.”The attack targets Python projects, including Django apps, ML research code, Streamlit dashboards, and PyPI packages, by appending obfuscated code to files like setup.py, main.py, and app.py,” StepSecurity said. “Anyone…
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USENIX Security ’25 (Enigma Track) Securing Packages In npm, Homebrew, PyPI, Maven Central, And RubyGems
Presenter: Zach Steindler, GitHub Our thanks to USENIX Security ’25 (Enigma Track) (USENIX ’25 for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s tremendous USENIX Security ’25 (Enigma Track) (USENIX ’25 content on the Organizations’ YouTube Channel. Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/usenix-security-25-enigma-track-securing-packages-in-npm-homebrew-pypi-maven-central-and-rubygems/
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Malicious npm and PyPI packages linked to Lazarus APT fake recruiter campaign
Researchers found malicious npm and PyPI packages tied to a fake recruitment campaign linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group. ReversingLabs researcher uncovered new malicious packages on npm and PyPI connected to a fake job recruitment campaign attributed to the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group. The campaign uses deceptive hiring themes to trick developers into downloading infected…