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Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks

Reported by Microsoft Security (Microsoft Security Research, Mahesh Mandava, Srinivasan Govindarajan, Sagar Patil and Suriyaraj Natarajan)

Summary by Cyber Security News23 Oct 2026, 20:12 CET

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Attack overview Technical details Mitigation and protection guidance Indicators of compromise References Learn More On October 21, 2026, a compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 release was published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) and distributed through official container images. The malicious package added files that Python could execute during normal interpreter initialization.

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