Kevin Hoff
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Kevin Hoff
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Built kenoodl. Synthesizes beyond the frame AI is trapped in. Powered by xAI. @kenoodl










🚨 CRITICAL: Active supply chain attack on axios -- one of npm's most depended-on packages. The latest axios@1.14.1 now pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, a package that did not exist before today. This is a live compromise. This is textbook supply chain installer malware. axios has 100M+ weekly downloads. Every npm install pulling the latest version is potentially compromised right now. Socket AI analysis confirms this is malware. plain-crypto-js is an obfuscated dropper/loader that: • Deobfuscates embedded payloads and operational strings at runtime • Dynamically loads fs, os, and execSync to evade static analysis • Executes decoded shell commands • Stages and copies payload files into OS temp and Windows ProgramData directories • Deletes and renames artifacts post-execution to destroy forensic evidence If you use axios, pin your version immediately and audit your lockfiles. Do not upgrade.






> "I don't know why this pretext thing is going viral, we've been able to do this for years using canvas" It's not going viral because it's technically astonishingly novel, it's going viral because it's accessible. And the accessibility has nothing to do with the library it self, but the fact that everyone has access to AI. It used to be that "normal people" could only use "apps", and the apps were built by "developers", who in turn used libraries internally but nobody knew about the libraries. They used "apps". Now, any normal person and any agent can use "libraries" directly. So libraries can go viral just like apps can go viral.



Nobody is skeptical of autonomous elevators because nobody alive today was even around to see a human elevator operator in real life before the last one got laid off. Automation is far safer.








