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Poor headline.
There's lots of packages on Homebrew and it's a popular package manager, even outside of MacOS. He could have decided to grab anything from Homebrew and get hit.
The real one to blame here is Google for doing zero vetting on the crap they put at the top of the search results. Malicious ads for popular software happen constantly and so far they haven't moved an inch to fix it.
But who downloads homebrew from the web and not CLI?
Thats something I would absolutely do years ago before I got more familiar with cli and not as afraid of a terminal shell
Are you a Dev though?
Oh hell no I dont even know computer