This is what I mean when I say AI is going to end the world.
Ended up downloading a tampered installation of Homebrew, a tool that’s popular with software engineers, after clicking a malicious ad.
So they didn’t even have uBlockOrigin installed. That’s the first mistake.
And some people can’t understand the backlash against Proton.
Proton is a lost cause. Their leadership are Trump ball garglers. I was looking at an alternative to completely replace Google and ended up choosing someone else because of their bullshit.
They can either change their leadership or lose me come renewal.
What I got from the article is that this company had minimal access controls and a very reactive security approach. Those employees should not have been able to download or execute random software or “assignments”. As we saw, even if they caught the first download after the fact and replaced the laptop, the damage was already done. This is again my problem with everyone adopting the “move fast and break things” mentality. Security starts to be seen as a hindrance that just slows developers down.
Yeah, that fits with the whole vibe coding concept where they don’t need to know what they are doing to vomit forth code.
Fortunately now with Super Intelligence, we can say “Grok, move fast and don’t break things” while shipping more and more, faster than ever.
To me it just reads like multiple supply chain attacks on the client tooling side. It just happened to be developer tools that integrated with ML models. Where’s the vibe coding part?
Security isn’t that much of an issue if you just write an app for rating co-eds’ faces.
Misleading title. The entry point for the attack was a spiked Homebrew install that the dev fell for. AI tools were in the exploit chain but it’s not like slop code opened some big dumb backdoor.
The title is quite misleading (see this comment), the actual hack happened because of social engineering.
But, mate, you can’t just crash and destroy a good circle-jerk. The kids were having so much fun talking out of their gas release valves
