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JD Vance’s Senate Office Fires Key Adviser Who Posted About Drug Use on Reddit

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s office has fired key financial policy adviser Aaron Kofsky. A recent WIRED investigation found that Kofsky had posted extensively on Reddit over a period of years about using a variety of drugs, including cocaine and opiates, and called Vance a “Trump boot licker.” WIRED had been preparing a story […]

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Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines

The IP address returned by a package Phylum analyzed was: hxxp://193.233.201[.]21:3001. While the method was likely intended to conceal the source of second-stage infections, it ironically had the effect of leaving a trail of previous addresses the attackers had used in the past. The researchers explained: An interesting thing about storing this data on the […]

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JD Vance Adviser Posted on Reddit for Years About Use of Cocaine, ‘Gas Station Heroin,’ Other Drugs

Later on in the thread, a different user accused PsychoticMammal of being Vance because the linked video was unlisted. “Unlisted? 21 views? Senator Vance, is that you?” “Lol I wish! Would love to be rolling in the dough like him and his VC buddies,” PsychoticMammal replied. “Honestly when I first watched this the thought kinda […]