Tesla's former VP Andrej Karpathy shares AI coding 'horror', 'Python supply chain attack' that could have wiped millions of SSL private keys, database passwords, more; and Elon Musk 'agrees', says ...
· Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
In short
Former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy warns about a critical Python supply chain attack involving the LiteLLM AI library, which had 97 million monthly downloads. The compromised versions could have exfiltrated sensitive credentials including SSH keys, AWS credentials, SSL private keys, and database passwords. The attack was discovered only due to a bug in the malware that caused a developer's machine to crash, highlighting vulnerabilities in software dependency chains.
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Tags: security, supply-chain, cybersecurity, dependencies, Python, AI