Hacker News with Generative AI: Ecommerce

Backdoor found in popular ecommerce components (sansec.io)
Hundreds of stores, including a $40 billion multinational, are running backdoored versions of popular ecommerce software. We found that the backdoor is actively used since at least April 20th. Sansec identified these backdoors in the following packages which were published between 2019 and 2022.
Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons from China Let Anyone Turn Toys into Weapons of War (wired.com)
Chinese ecommerce giants including Temu and AliExpress sell drone accessories like those used by soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein (wired.com)
Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form says were received in exchange for consulting services.
USPS Halts All Packages from China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry into Chaos (wired.com)
The United States Postal Services has abruptly stopped accepting all packages from Hong Kong and China until further notice, according to an international service disruption notice posted on the USPS website.
Stripe Black Friday Dashboard (Physical Machine) (stripe.com)
Stripe BF/CM live (stripe.com)
NextMaster, an ecommerce Next.js template optimized for high performance (twitter.com)
US targets trade loophole used by ecommerce groups Temu and Shein (ft.com)
Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy (lemonsqueezy.com)
Shopify is acquiring the Threads team (twitter.com)