LiteLLM Was Just Compromised on PyPI — Here's How to Detect Supply Chain Attacks

What Happened Today on Hacker News: LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised. This is a supply chain attack — malicious code injected into a legitimate package. If you installed these versions, your credentials may be exposed. This Is Not New Supply chain attacks happen constantly: event-stream (2018) — 2M weekly downloads, maintainer handed off to attacker ua-parser-js (2021) — cryptominer injected into 8M weekly download package colors + faker (2022) — maintainer self-sabotaged in protest LiteLLM (2026) — compromised PyPI release How to Protect Yourself Here's a practical detection script using only free APIs: import requests import json def check_pypi_package(name): """Detect potential supply chain issues in a PyPI package.""" data = requests.get(f"https://pypi.org/pypi/{name}/json").json() info = data.get("info", {}) releases = data.get("releases", {}) risks = [] # Check 1: Recent maintainer email change author_email = info.get("author_email", "") # Check 2: Very