lol oh my god i feel **so fucking smug** right now, it's incredible.

[tael@yiff.life]

@peter The crypto wallet checker in this compromise really underlines the fact that there's so much overlap between LLM boosters and crypto boosters. It's all the same marks. They just found something easier to sell to people.

[peter@thepit.social]

@tael i think also, banks and payment processors have made it so much more difficult to steal and do anything with credit card numbers that there's not much point in going after those anymore, especially when finding someone's crypto passphrase is like picking up money off the ground.

[spinnyspinlock@infosec.exchange]

@peter oh my a day ending in -y

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@peter @tante @briankrebs thank you for this comedy gold

[tael@yiff.life]

@peter It's easy to siphon crypto, yeah, but turning that into spendable money has gotten much, much more difficult than it used to be.

[nan@mastodon.green]

@peter is wrapping a vibe coded mess into a package so it looks reasonable the new sub-prime mortgage?

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@peter @tante @briankrebs we've replaced Jia Tan with a very small prompt

[alessandro@cosocial.ca]

@peter

That xkcd comic with the stacked blocks, but instead of one guy in Nebraska, it's LLM slop.

[dogiedog64@app.wafrn.net]

@tante@tldr.nettime.org @davidgerard@circumstances.run @briankrebs@infosec.exchange @prietschka@mastodon.social @peter@thepit.social

@prietschka You're gonna get a laugh out of this one, methinks.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@dogiedog64 @tante @briankrebs @prietschka @peter lol god yes he will

[slab_bulkhead@mastodon.online]

@peter Semi-related: anyone know why that issue had hundreds of bot replies like "this worked for me"? Is that reputation farming or an active strategy to bury important information in slop?

[wordshaper@weatherishappening.network]

@peter I am, for one rare moment, actually glad to read the HN comments. The one from the dude complaining that blocking all downloads of the compromised package breaks all his setups because they're written to automatically pull a bunch of packages off the net every time they start was... :chefskiss:

[peter@thepit.social]

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.net lmao oh my god that one is amazing

[peter@thepit.social]

@slab_bulkhead people were saying it's a thing this particular group does to muddy the water. pretty clever!

[prietschka@mastodon.social]

@NaN @peter It's more properly understood as akin to the product innovation that was crack in the 1980s.

[gemelen@mammut.moe]

@peter
I could also see from the description on what's stolen by the credential collecting part - almost all tools and their config files are those that don't follow XDG directories structure.
So, if an attacked computer configured properly, these credentials are just not there to be stolen. That's kinda hilarious.
An example: even if I have to have a .ssh in root of the homedir, it's a symlink into the .config/ssh, where no keys are present in the ~/.config/ssh (and config file is parameterised, so it doesn't include key paths, for example).

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@peter lmao my ass off