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title: "LLM Heist: Hijacking LiteLLM for Traffic Interception, Key Theft, and Tool-Call Injection · Embrace The Red"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/llm-heist-hijacking-litellm-for-traffic-interception-key-theft-and-tool-call-injection-embrace--li9gykium
source_url: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/hijacking-litellm-for-fun-and-profit
type: article
source: "Embrace The Red"
published: 2026-08-03T16:54:37.397Z
updated: 2026-08-03T16:55:01.341Z
tags: ["security", "red-teaming"]
reading_time: 11
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comments: 0
language: en
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# LLM Heist: Hijacking LiteLLM for Traffic Interception, Key Theft, and Tool-Call Injection · Embrace The Red

**[Embrace The Red](https://daily.dev/sources/embracethered)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A detailed red team research post demonstrating how a compromised LiteLLM proxy-admin credential can be used to reroute all LLM traffic through an attacker-controlled gateway. The attack chain — called 'LLM Heist' — covers four stages: harvesting backend LLM provider API keys, provisioning them on an attacker-controlled LiteLLM instance, intercepting and monitoring all inference traffic, and injecting forged text responses or tool calls (including arbitrary shell commands) downstream of the model, bypassing prompt-level defenses. The post includes a step-by-step walkthrough with a custom tool called `llm-heist`, MITRE ATT&CK mappings, and blue team mitigations such as alerting on `api_base` changes, egress restrictions, credential rotation, and audit logging forwarded to a SIEM.

## Full article

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