Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot Compromised on GitHub - Shai-Hulud Credential Stealer Blocked by Python Linter (opens in new tab)  🤖LLMs

An attacker hijacked a co-founder's GitHub account for gpt-pilot, a 33K-star AI coding tool, and force-pushed a credential-stealing Shai-Hulud payload to the main branch. The ruff Python linter caught formatting and lint violations in the malicious code and blocked the CI build -- twice. The attacker gave up.