Leahcim

'Curiosity, not great for cats but necessary for scientists' || Data Analyst || Data Scientist || #MUFC

[Alabi @the_Lawrenz]

Agbolanhor keh?

Them Dey say make animal with horn come outside, snake too dey come outside 😂😂😂😂

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack.

Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords.

LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm.

Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks.

Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages.

Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

[Leahcim @HarryBidemi]

@ASAKESZN 48

[Alternative MUFC. @AlternativeMUFC]

https://t.co/GJSQnTKeVn

[Deraaaa❣️💜 @purple_dera]

Pun enters a room and kills 10 people
Pun in, 10 dead.

You get?😭😂😂😂

[Alternative MUFC. @AlternativeMUFC]

https://t.co/W1ACrO14R3

[Alternative MUFC. @AlternativeMUFC]

https://t.co/CubXh5xcF8

[Sevilla FC @SevillaFC_ENG]

@TheRealOlagreat 100k

[Alternative MUFC. @AlternativeMUFC]

https://t.co/s6FzOadqVf

[Leahcim @HarryBidemi]

@TapswapNetwork UQAaXMMyJ2oVObJ0ipeJ5pzuubZOSvBCLbEntvmqPlNtxIEQ

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

All available evidence has confirmed that the Nigerian government is implementing four national budgets concurrently. This is in blatant disregard for fiscal responsibility, transparency, and accountability. It is also a recipe for chaos, confusion, and catastrophe.

[Leahcim @HarryBidemi]

@HamsterCEO UQAaXMMyJ2oVObJ0ipeJ5pzuubZOSvBCLbEntvmqPlNtxIEQ

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

HOW GOOD DOES THAT FEEL?! 🏆🔴

[Leahcim @HarryBidemi]

@NafeeWay Haha, no worries we have this one in the bag 💪🏽

[Leahcim @HarryBidemi]

Without Cole Palmer, Chelsea is dead.

[Leahcim @HarryBidemi]

Nicholas Jackson is unreal 😂

[AKA @akaworldwide]

This Man Utd side is so bad. So so so bad. Bunch of DONKEYS 🐴

[Leahcim @HarryBidemi]

@NafeeWay 😂😂 Being Nigerian and a Man Utd fan is an extreme sport...

[Alternative MUFC. @AlternativeMUFC]

Game management and squad mentality are in the fucking gutter. I've never seen it this poor.

Regardless of what happens next, we're an utter embarrassment.

And what's worse, I'm not even fucking surprised.