Netanyahu's office startup went bankrupt
Yonatan Urich, a close adviser to the prime minister, built a system using Claude software to scan news sources and send WhatsApp alerts about items concerning Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu. According to reports, he uploaded the code to GitHub and left access credentials in it, and his account was linked to an external service operating from Dubai. About two weeks after the flaw was exposed, conversations attributed to him were circulated, with no proof of a connection.
Yonatan Urich, a close adviser to the prime minister, sought to create a system that would monitor the media and identify in real time items about Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu. According to reports, he used Claude software to build a tool that scans dozens of news sources and sends alerts to dedicated WhatsApp groups, and uploaded the code to GitHub – a public code repository. If a developer leaves access credentials in the code, anyone who browses it can take them and enter the system. Thus, according to the reports, Urich left access credentials and identifiers related to the WhatsApp groups. At the same time, his private account was linked to an external service operating from Dubai and received unencrypted access to correspondence that passed through his account. About two weeks after the flaw was exposed, WhatsApp conversations attributed to Urich were circulated online. There is no proof that the exposed access credentials led to the publication of the conversations, and the reliability of the material has not been fully verified. The article frames the affair as an illustration of the trap of "vibe coding": the fact that software works does not mean it is secure. GitHub warns that digital secrets that are exposed can be exploited within seconds, and in 2024 alone it detected more than 39 million secrets leaked on the platform.