After the LiteLLM backdoor, an OS-level package firewall goes open source
iacgm · hn · 2026-10-27
Following the LiteLLM backdoor incident, developers open-sourced usestrix/firewall, an OS-level package firewall that intercepts and controls suspicious behavior during dependency installation to guard against supply-chain attacks.
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