The Ledger

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Aboukhadijeh: Threat Actors Open-Sourced a Vibe-Coded NPM Malware Toolkit
“One of the threat groups actually kind of posted their, you know, open source to their kind of vibe coded toolkit for others to use to be able to do this. You know, we've seen copycat attacks happen since then.”
Feross Aboukhadijeh Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 13:56 AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.
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Aboukhadijeh: Attackers Time NPM Worms for RSA and Black Hat
“I noticed the attackers seemed to pick RSA and Black Hat as the times they wanted to start these NPM worms.”
Feross Aboukhadijeh Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 21:14 AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.
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Chokshi: NPM is the world's largest open source library ecosystem
“And its package manager, NPM, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world.”
Sonal Chokshi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:56 a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
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Ali Yahya: Traditional open source captured very little value created
“And what's interesting is in, in neither of those two worlds, at least historically, like pre-crypto, has much of the value that those open source contribute been captured.”
Ali Yahya Jul 26, 2018 ▶ 22:44 Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
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