PyTorch has identified a malicious dependency with the same name as the framework's 'torchtriton' library. This has led to a successful compromise via the dependency confusion attack vector.

What is PyTorch? PyTorch is a deep learning framework designed to simplify AI model development. First released by Meta AI, it was built to improve the flexibility of deep learning research.

One of the last pieces of the Copilot Runtime to arrive rolled out a few weeks ago, an Arm-native version of the PyTorch machine learning framework, as part of the PyTorch 2.7 release.