A satirical incident report describing a cascading supply chain attack: a stolen YubiKey leads to a compromised npm package, which triggers credential theft, which infects a Rust library, which poisons a Python build tool, ultimately reaching 4.2 million developer machines. The incident is accidentally resolved by an unrelated cryptocurrency mining worm. The piece skewers real-world security failures including AI-generated phishing links, optional 2FA, transitive dependency sprawl, auto-merged Dependabot PRs, and boilerplate incident response language.
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