The Last Watchdog: Lessons learned from the headline-grabbing cybersecurity incidents of 2024

Cybersecurity researchers at ReversingLabs found that hackers used malicious code to combine the Ultralytics AI library to mine cryptocurrency.

In yet another software supply chain attack, it has come to light that two versions of a popular Python artificial intelligence (AI) library named ultralytics were compromised to deliver a cryptocurrency miner.

Reversing Labs researchers identified and reported the threat, leading to its removal from the PyPI.