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From Open Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. — Saoud Rizwan, Cline · ≈4:17
“And the only reason this was even caught as quickly as it was was just pure luck um because the malware had a bug in it where it would cause cursor to crash if you ran the light LLM MCP server.”
What’s in it
- Breaks down a real supply-chain attack on a popular PyPI package
- Explains how attackers stole publishing tokens via a compromised GitHub app
- Shows why a lucky bug prevented catastrophic credential theft at scale
Clip transcript
contributors to get pawned. Um, so just as an example, light LLM um, is a Python package. It gets like three and a half million downloads a day. They were compromised for three hours where attackers um used a GitHub app that they used um to steal their Pippi publishing tokens and um publish a compromised version of the package that would install a credential harvester that would steal your API keys, your SSH keys, your crypto keys, um and also install a backdoor that lets them do remote command execution. And the only reason this was even caught as quickly as it was was just pure luck um because the malware had a bug in it where it would cause cursor to crash if you ran the light LLM MCP server. And a security researcher noticed that um and was able to figure it out. But if this had been out any longer, it would have caused like catastrophic damage, especially because a lot of the people using Light LLM are like the enterprise customers um and developers um that have their own internal gateways.
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