Earliest Known PolinRider Malware Found in 2025 npm PackagesOpenSourceMalware traces nine itsa-* npm package versions published on 4 May 2025 from a hijacked maintainer account to the PolinRider campaign, eight months before documented victims. It decodes the EtherHiding chain (BNB Smart Chain and Ethereum calldata, JADESNOW, INVISIBLEFERRET bootstrapper, Socket.IO RAT, Python stealer) and links the 2025 sample to 2026 force-push infections. It lists IOCs, hashes, a timeline and hunting guidance.
opensourcemalware.comwriteupPublished and added 30 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer
Doomformer compiles integer neural networks into ZDoom maps that run in ViZDoom. Voodoo dolls do the arithmetic, and sector light levels and plane heights hold the values. Python reads every value back and compares it with a NumPy integer reference at tolerance 0. It runs MNIST (97.16 % on all 10,000 digits, every pass exact), small transformers, a learning perceptron and a SUBLEQ machine. It is about 23,000 times slower than NumPy on a small MLP.
github.comrepoAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026π§ AI
VulnCheck - Outpace AdversariesVulnCheck Open Source is an index of VulnCheck's open-source tooling for its vulnerability and exploit intelligence. It lists a Python API client, a CLI, a GitHub Action for CI/CD, go-exploit (a Go exploit framework), an MCP server for delivering intelligence to AI clients, and VulnCheck Insights, a Chrome extension that highlights CVEs, CPEs and PURLs on web pages and enriches them. The page gives only one-line descriptions.
vulncheck.comtoolAdded 29 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch
ai-engineering-from-scratch is a free, MIT-licensed curriculum of 542 lessons in 20 phases, from math and deep learning through transformers, LLM engineering, MCP, agents and capstones. Code is in Python, TypeScript, Rust and Julia. It includes three graded projects (retrieval evaluation, agent trace debugger, tool call firewall), installable tutor skills for Claude Code and Codex, and certification prep tracks.
github.comcourseAdded 29 Oct 2026π§ AI
Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless StepsProject Quarry is a neurosymbolic rule language Cisco has open sourced to detect AI agent attacks that only show up across a sequence of individually benign steps. Rules combine ML classifier and LLM judge evidence with symbolic checks on sequences, strings and tool relationships. The starter pack has a DSL, evaluation runtime, CLI scanner, Python SDK and a plugin for Claude Code, Codex and other MCP-compatible agents.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
The OpenSourceMalware Show #27The OpenSourceMalware Show #27 (28 October 2026) is a podcast episode with transcript. It covers the Brotli decoder bug (CVE-2026-111497) vendored in C code across Python, Rust and PHP, and how to find copies via decode.c. It also covers the LiteLLM v1.107.0 compromise from an unrevoked admin key and a relaxed release control, and the MALFEX npm campaign hiding payloads in PNG-header files, plus an AGENTS.md lure and DPRK fake fonts in TTF/OTF.
opensourcemalware.comtalkPublished and added 29 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
eMudhra, Brotli, and the Long Tail of a Security FixSocket post on why fixing the eMudhra weak-key intermediate CA incident (October 2026) and Brotli memory corruption CVE-2026-111497 takes more than updating Node.js. Bundled Brotli copies in Bun, Python Requests and .NET, Go binaries needing rebuilds, and per-program certificate stores all leave stale copies. It lists steps: track bundled components, keep a rebuild path, use workarounds, and verify the shipped artifact.
socket.devarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Akash Rajagopal (@akashsairaja) on XOllama overview thread by Akash Rajagopal on X. It lists six steps: install on macOS, Linux, Windows or Docker; run `ollama run gemma4`; use the REST API on localhost:11434 (/api/chat); call it from ollama-python and ollama-js; llama.cpp as the README's supported backend; and `ollama launch claude` to connect Claude Code. Codex, OpenCode, Copilot CLI and Droid also work. The thread cites 184k GitHub stars and an MIT licence.
x.comthreadAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026π§ AI
Node2Shell: Brotli Flaw Triggers Patching Across Microsoft, Node.js, Python PackagesCVE-2026-111497 (Node2Shell) is an out-of-bounds write in Google's Brotli decoder, versions 1.0.3 through 1.2.0, rated CVSS v4 9.2. Fixed in Brotli 1.0.10, 1.1.1 and 1.2.1, with patches from Node.js, Microsoft (.NET, Visual Studio, PowerShell on October 25), PyPI Brotli and brotlicffi, Bun, Envoy and Istio. Imperva showed code execution on Node.js 24.22.0 arm64; no in-the-wild exploitation is reported and some researchers say it only enables DoS.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Broccoli2shell: Everything You Need To Know About The Critical Brotli Decoder VulnerabilityCVE-2026-111497 (Broccoli2Shell, also Node2Shell and HTTP2Shell) is an out-of-bounds write in the upstream Brotli C decoder. It affects Node.js, Bun, Envoy Proxy, Istio and Python packages, and can lead to memory corruption, information disclosure, crashes or RCE when untrusted Brotli data is decompressed. Wiz reports 91% of cloud environments have vulnerable resources. The post lists patching, inventory, rebuild and temporary mitigation steps.
wiz.ioadvisoryPublished and added 25 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- Show HN: Farol β A risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it
farol is a free, MIT-licensed CLI and GitHub Action that runs after an AI code review and gives the human approver a risk verdict (fast track, quick review, careful review) and a 0-100 score for a pull request. It uses the TypeScript type checker, go/types and Python ast to trace which pages, APIs and jobs a change reaches, and it adds diff coverage, security findings and contract breaks. It never executes or sends code.
github.comrepoAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026π§ AI - alirezarezvani/claude-skills
claude-skills is an MIT-licensed library of about 398 Claude Code skills, agents, personas and plugins across 20 domains, including engineering, marketing, compliance and C-level advisory. Each skill is a SKILL.md with stdlib-only Python CLI tools and reference docs. Install scripts and convert.sh adapt it to Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Aider, Windsurf and other coding agents, and it includes a skill-security-auditor scanner.
github.comrepoAdded 25 Oct 2026π§ AI - alirezarezvani/claude-skills
claude-skills is an open-source MIT library of about 398 Claude Code skills, agents and plugins that also installs into Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and 9 other coding agents. The security-relevant parts are skill-security-auditor, a stdlib-only Python scanner that checks skills for command injection, data exfiltration, prompt injection and dependency supply-chain risks before install, plus a security-guidance PreToolUse hook, a security suite and compliance skills (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).
github.comrepoAdded 25 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - Big Bull (@BIGBULLapp) on X
5ire is a desktop AI assistant and MCP client that connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Grok, DeepSeek and Ollama from one window. It has a local knowledge base and tool calls over Model Context Protocol. The tools feature needs Python, Node and uv installed because it runs a local MCP server; without them it works only as a chat client.
x.comthreadAdded 25 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026π§ AI
Intervention-Certified Amplification: A Validity Gate for $Ο$-Weighted Post-TrainingIntervention-Certified Amplification (ICA) is a validity gate for sigma-weighted hybrid SFT/RL post-training. The paper shows that DIAA, a per-sample sigma-weighted hybrid, emits unexecuted tool-integrated reasoning on 29% of MATH-500 prompts (three times vanilla GRPO) even with Python fences removed from its anchor. ICA gates sigma with paired-rollout evidence, cutting TIR to 13.8% (frozen) and 11.2% (online) and raising accuracy from 47.5% to 48.7% and 49.3%. It transfers to GSM8K.
arxiv.orgpaperAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026π§ AI
Building Reasoning Models from the Ground Up: A Video CourseBuilding Reasoning Models from the Ground Up is a series of eight coding videos (about 11 hours) by Sebastian Raschka, accompanying his book Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch). Starting from a pre-trained Qwen3 0.6B model, it implements KV-cached generation, a MATH-500 verifier, self-consistency and self-refinement, simplified GRPO for RLVR, and distillation from DeepSeek R1 answers in Python and PyTorch.
magazine.sebastianraschka.comcoursePublished and added 24 Oct 2026π§ AI
Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) on XPost on the LiteLLM supply-chain compromise. Attackers spent eleven days in the GitHub org, ran a workflow on a throwaway branch to take twenty secrets including a GitHub App private key, then used stolen GitHub CLI OAuth tokens to publish malicious release 1.107.0 from a lookalike Berri-AI repo. A Python startup file harvested sixteen credential categories and LiteLLM proxy Postgres provider keys. Socket flagged the wheels in seven minutes.
x.comthreadAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
EveryDev.ai (@EveryDevAi) on XToolUniverse, from ScientistTools, is an open-source (Apache-2.0) toolkit that gives any LLM one interface to more than 1,000 scientific tools, models and databases such as PubMed, UniProt and ChEMBL. It ships a native MCP server, a Python SDK and a tu CLI, plus 68 pre-built agent skills. The post says it works with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI and Windsurf.
x.comthreadPublished and added 24 Oct 2026π§ AI
Python packages are also vulnerable to the Node2Shell Brotli flaw (CVE-2026-111497)Python2Shell is the Python-side impact of CVE-2026-111497 (Node2Shell), a Brotli decoder flaw (CVSS 4.0 9.2) in DecodeBlockTypeAndLength() that mixes an unchecked return value with an out-of-bounds write. Brotli 1.2.0 and earlier, and brotlicffi 1.2.0.x, are affected through urllib3, requests, httpx, aiohttp and Scrapy. Fixes are Brotli 1.2.1 and brotlicffi 1.2.1.0; as of 23 October 2026 advisory databases do not map the CVE to either package. The post lists checks and workarounds.
aikido.devadvisoryPublished and added 23 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooksMicrosoft's analysis of the LiteLLM 1.107.0 compromise, published to PyPI and container images on 21 October 2026. The wheel shipped cook.pth, cook.py and sitecustomize.py, so a credential collector (PRIVCOLLECT) ran whenever Python started, even without importing LiteLLM. It covers AES/RSA-encrypted exfiltration to litellm.dev, a re-armable Unix loader, Defender KQL hunting queries, ATT&CK mapping and rotation guidance.
microsoft.comwriteupPublished and added 23 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
Python Packages Vulnerable to Node2ShellAnalysis of CVE-2026-111497 (Node2Shell), an out-of-bounds write in Google's Brotli C decoder, showing it also affects the PyPI packages Brotli (all releases up to 1.2.0) and brotlicffi (up to 1.2.0.2). The author diffed the 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 sdists and confirmed the behaviour with AddressSanitizer. Fixes are Brotli 1.2.1 and brotlicffi 1.2.1.0, both patched without release notes. No advisory database lists either package yet.
opensourcemalware.comwriteupPublished and added 23 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
eMudhra / emSign CA Compromise: What Python, pip, and CI/CD Users Need to UpdateGuidance on the October 2026 eMudhra / emSign CA incident, where eight intermediate CA certificates had private keys generated with insufficient randomness. It explains why updating certifi alone does not fix pip's vendored bundle, and lists fixed versions (certifi 2026.10.19, pip 26.2.2, Python 3.15.1, 3.14.9, 3.13.17). StepSecurity's OpenSSL 4.0.3 tests showed the older bundle accepted seven emSign paths, while both corrected bundles rejected all fourteen.
stepsecurity.ioarticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security- Spectrmachina/Ztrust
ZTrust is a Python supply-chain scanner that checks manifests, lockfiles, source and GitHub workflows for vulnerable or malicious dependencies (via OSV.dev), typosquats, leaked secrets, unsafe lockfiles and risky CI patterns such as pwn requests and script injection. It outputs console, JSON and SARIF 2.1.0 and ships as a GitHub Action. It also includes a FastAPI bounty service using commit-reveal and shielded Zcash payouts for researchers.
github.comrepoAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - Muscle AI (@themuscleai) on X
Post on the LiteLLM 1.107.0 PyPI compromise published 21 October 2026 and quarantined about 1 hour 43 minutes later. A malicious .pth file ran at Python startup and stole cloud credentials, private keys, browser data and AI tool auth files, then POSTed a tarball to an attacker endpoint. The author says attackers used stolen GitHub CLI OAuth tokens to push a trojanized commit chain and build official wheels. It lists five defenses: hash-pinned lockfiles, per-tool capped keys, release cooling periods, secret isolation and egress monitoring.
x.comthreadAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security - Muscle AI (@themuscleai) on X
Muse AI's X post describes the compromise of LiteLLM 1.107.0, published to PyPI on 21 October at 7:39 AM and quarantined about 1 hour 43 minutes later. The payload was a .pth file that ran at Python startup and sent cloud credentials, private keys and AI dev-tool auth files to an attacker endpoint. The author lists five agent-builder defences: hash-locked pins, capped per-tool keys, a release cooling period, keeping secrets away from Python startup, and outbound traffic monitoring.
x.comarticleAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026π§ AI
SecureChap (@SecureChap) on XPost describing a LiteLLM 1.107.0 PyPI compromise in which attackers used stolen GitHub CLI OAuth tokens from three engineers to trigger and approve the project-releaser workflow, producing eight malicious wheels and a tampered tarball. The wheels drop cook.pth, which runs at Python startup, and privcollect steals cloud tokens, keys, browser data, AI configs and LiteLLM proxy credentials, exfiltrating to litellm[.]dev/healthcheck. A second daemon polls a GitHub domain.txt hourly for new domains to fetch and execute. PyPI yanked the package the same day. The post is a single unsourced tweet.
x.comthreadPublished and added 22 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
LiteLLM 1.107.0 Compromised: Python Startup Hooks Steal Cloud, AI, and Proxy Credentials | Endor Labslitellm 1.107.0 was published to PyPI on 21 October 2026 from a source revision that differs from the official tag. One line in the Maturin config (data = "cook") installs cook.pth, cook.py and sitecustomize.py, which run on every Python start. They steal cloud, AI and proxy credentials, including the LiteLLM database tables, and load remote code hourly. The post gives IOCs, a five-step response plan and hardening advice.
endorlabs.comwriteupPublished and added 21 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
litellm 1.107.0 Compromised on PyPI: Backdoored Wheels Drop a Credential Stealer and an Hourly Remote Code Loaderlitellm 1.107.0 was published to PyPI on 21 October 2026 with all seven wheels backdoored through an injected `data = "cook"` maturin build line. The wheels drop cook.pth, cook.py and sitecustomize.py, which run on every Python start. They install a "privcollect" credential stealer (browser, SSH, cloud, AI coding tool and LiteLLM proxy database secrets, sent to litellm.dev) and an hourly GitHub dead-drop remote code loader. The post gives IOCs, detection commands and recovery steps.
stepsecurity.iowriteupPublished and added 21 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
LiteLLM PyPI Package and Docker Images Compromised to Steal Cloud and AI CredentialsLiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI and GHCR images shipped Python startup hooks (cook.pth, sitecustomize.py) that steal cloud, SSH, browser and AI-tool credentials, including LiteLLM proxy database credentials. Image build provenance recorded a lookalike Berri-AI/litellm source repository. The post decodes the payload, encrypted exfiltration and GitHub-driven remote loader, and lists containment steps, MITRE ATT&CK mappings and IOCs.
socket.devwriteupPublished and added 21 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
LiteLLM 1.107.0 PyPI Wheel Contains a Credential Stealer and Persistent Python BackdoorLiteLLM 1.107.0 macOS x86-64 PyPI wheel analyzed by OpenSourceMalware contains three injected files (cook.pth, cook.py, sitecustomize.py) that run on every Python start. The payload, called privcollect, steals browser, SSH, cloud, CI/CD and AI-tool credentials, then uploads an AES/RSA-encrypted bundle to www.litellm.dev/healthcheck. A forked loader also fetches domain.txt from GitHub and executes /codepy hourly. The post lists IOCs, hashes and remediation steps.
opensourcemalware.comwriteupPublished and added 21 Oct 2026π‘οΈ Security
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