North Korea's Hack Hit 80% of the Internet. Most People Have No Idea.

North Korea just scored big on a supply chain attack with the Axios hack. Not the news site — the actual code. Axios npm is a tiny library, downloaded 100 million times a week that lives inside almost every app on your phone. Your banking app. Your work tools. Your data. You've never heard of it, but you've definitely used it.Juan and Kate break down how the Lazarus Group phished one volunteer maintainer to slip a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) into the plumbing of the internet. They sat there for three hours with your files, your webcam, and your microphone wide open, then the code deleted itself and vanished. No footprints. No warnings. Just 2.4 million customer records and $2.1 million in crypto gone.This is where vibe coding security becomes a nightmare. AI tools pull these npm dependencies automatically because they work, but nobody is checking who owns the keys. Easy to build. Hard to defend. The North Korea hack counted on that.👉 What app on your phone do you trust the most with your data? Because that developer may have had three hours with everything. Hosted by Juan Faisal and Kate Cook. Slop World Podcast covers AI news with receipts — fact-checking Big Tech's claims and following the money on the stories everyone's hyping but nobody's verifying. New episodes every week.Chapters00:00 North Korea Built a Hack That Cleaned Itself. Millions Got Hit.00:56 Axios: The Code Inside Every App You've Ever Used01:31 One Volunteer. One Phishing Scam. The Whole Internet.02:11 Why This Could Hit You Even If You've Never Written Code02:36 What a RAT Does to Your Computer03:24 Kate's Vibe Coding Scare: Why Deleting the App Wouldn't Save Her04:29 Vibe Coding Security: Easy to Build, Hard to Defend06:00 Three Reasons Nobody Caught It in Time06:48 2.4 Million Records. $2.1 Million in Crypto. Gone.08:22 North Korea Did This. Google Confirmed It.09:09 A Country With No Internet Just Hacked the Internet09:52 Friction Is the Only Thing That Could Have Stopped This11:18 Stop Auto-Updating Your Apps Immediately