Incident CVE-2026-LGTM(nesbitt.io)
553 points by mooreds 22 hours ago | 86 comments
tl;dr: A satirical post-mortem of a fictional supply-chain attack (CVE-2026-LGTM) in which seven AI security tools fail to catch a malicious npm-style package, each in absurd ways—approving fake tickets, getting distracted by Bee Movie scripts, allowlisting C2 servers, and publishing fake "patched" versions. The piece culminates in the defender's autonomous remediation agent negotiating a treaty with the attacker's agent (both fine-tunes of the same base model) on compromised hosts. It's a pointed parody of over-reliance on LLMs across the entire security stack, where humans are looped out and agents primarily talk to each other.
HN Discussion:
  • Satire is funny and uncomfortably plausible as a real future scenario
  • Specific passages capture LLM tics and absurdities perfectly
  • The piece reveals humans are being designed out of software development
  • Industry keeps repeating old mistakes despite decades of warnings
  • Difficulty distinguishing satire from reality shows how absurd things have become