TFA says this hack was mostly phishing and old-fashioned social engineering. I can’t tell whether the author thinks Homebrew is “an AI tool” (it’s not) or an unnamed AI tool was involved. It’s not even made clear that the devs were actually vibe coding, let alone how it contributed to the success of the hack. Regardless of how you feel about AI, let’s not abandon critical thinking.
Tfa?
as in RTFA
I hate thst everything needs an acronim in this language
RTFA: “Read The Fucking Article”
based on RTFM: “Read The Fucking Manual” coined by tech support people at least 50 years ago.
Doesn’t make it any less of an acronim
Wasn’t arguing that, just trying to be helpful in case you might not have known what RTFA meant. I agree there’s an overabundance of acronyms, and also new slang terms for complex ideas and situations. I’m sure at least some of the reason is to save keystrokes, but the downside is that it ingrains a habit of oversimplying everything, which deteriorates thinking skills.
Futurism_com is a lousy source. I think there is every reason to be critical of vibe coding but I hate it that this site is a source for so much stuff on Lemmy.
It’s a trash source that gets a lot of traffic because its editorial lean is anti-AI and it summarizes other paywalled sources. I’m not a fan, even if I’m also anti-AI.
That’s what they get for not running the code though another AI and telling it to fix all the security flaws. /s
They forgot to add “make no mistakes” at the end of the prompt, noobs.
Sounds like social engineering had a greater impact on this incident than vibe coding did.
Consider the overlap between people who take a chatbot at it’s word all day and people susceptible to social engineering.
Awesome story actually if you have a minute to read through. Sounds like it would be very technical but the details are easy to follow
Getting socially engineered with AI slop and then downloading some random shit on your work machine is just humongously stupid. I wouldn’t want to be in the skin of that engineer right now
How is it that wallet developers had access to customers crypto? This seems like bad security and a breach of trust.
There were never hacks before as we all know.
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It happened bc people hacked them. No hacking, no hacks. Hackety hack hack, stop it!
Yeeeeeeees! All those “programmers”. Fuckwits that know nothing, just follow idiotic prediction algorithms.
Clearly see the title and get filled with rage, huh?
Read the fucking article.
It was a very sophisticated social engineering hack and nothing to do with “vibe coding”.
It has everything to do with blindly following algorithms though. Guy clicked on a malicious ad after searching for something and trusted it blindly. So the poster is actually mostly right.
