Published June 8, 2026 · Added June 9, 2026

Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot Compromised on GitHub - Shai-Hulud Credential Stealer Blocked by Python Linter

StepSecurity reports that an attacker compromised a Pythagora co-founder's GitHub account and force-pushed a Shai-Hulud credential-stealer payload into the 33,000-star open-source AI coding tool gpt-pilot, but ruff lint failures blocked CI twice before the attack was disclosed.

StepSecurity reports that an attacker compromised a Pythagora co-founder’s GitHub account and force-pushed a Shai-Hulud credential-stealer payload into the 33,000-star open-source AI coding tool gpt-pilot, but ruff lint failures blocked CI twice before the attack was disclosed.

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Source: Stepsecurity