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Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 day ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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a clown car of clown cars that deploys another clown car, that explodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnFKkBBzpVg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250829-vibe-coded-build-system-nx-steals-vibe-coders-crypto - podcast

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 18 hours ago

It's like a one-and-a-half-page article that also comes in audio and video form, don't be lazy.

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They vibe coded a bash injection vulnerability in their devops code, which was used to gain access to the repo and push out a release with malicious code, which prompted any installed LLM wrappers like cursor to gather anything that looked like a configuration or text file in the infected machine and presumably leak them to the attacker.