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Home/Malicious Packages/torchtriton (pytorch-nightly)
Supply-Chain Attack

torchtriton (pytorch-nightly)

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A malicious PyPI package named torchtriton shadowed a PyTorch dependency (dependency confusion), exfiltrating system info, hostnames, and SSH keys.

Attack type
Dependency confusion
Ecosystem
PyPI
Year
2022
Severity
High

Impact

Affected PyTorch nightly users over the 2022 holidays; PyTorch renamed the dependency in response.

What is dependency confusion?

A public package shadowed a private/internal dependency name so build tools resolved the attacker's version.

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