{"id":236493,"date":"2026-05-05T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/backdoored-pytorch-lightning-package-drops-credential-stealer"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:26:12","slug":"backdoored-pytorch-lightning-package-drops-credential-stealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/backdoored-pytorch-lightning-package-drops-credential-stealer","title":{"rendered":"Backdoored PyTorch Lightning package drops credential stealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/backdoored-pytorch-lightning-package-drops-credential-stealer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A malicious version of the PyTorch Lightning package published on the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivers a credential-stealing payload targeting browsers, environment files, and cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>The developer disclosed the supply-chain attack on April 30, saying that version 2.6.3 of the package included a hidden execution chain that downloads and executes a JavaScript payload.<\/p>\n<p>PyTorch Lightning is a deep learning framework used for pretraining and fine-tuning AI models. It is a popular package, amassing more than <a href=\"http:\/\/pypistats.org\/packages\/pytorch-lightning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">11 million downloads<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A malicious version of the PyTorch Lightning package published on the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivers a credential-stealing payload targeting browsers, environment files, and cloud services. The developer disclosed the supply-chain attack on April 30, saying that version 2.6.3 of the package included a hidden execution chain that downloads and executes a JavaScript payload. PyTorch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}