Jason Koebler: New: Hackers embedded malware in a Stable Diffusion extension hosted on GitHub and have been hacking people generating AI images "You have committed one of our sins: Art Theft" www.404media.co/hackers-targ...

New: Hackers embedded malware in a Stable Diffusion extension hosted on GitHub and have been hacking people generating AI images "You have committed one of our sins: Art Theft" www.404media.co/hackers-targ...

... Asking for cryptocurrency when one of your sins is "crypto promotion" seems a little off to me. Am I missing something?

crypto is only useful for one thing: crimes.

actually it's not even useful for that because 1) the blockchain is a public ledger of all transactions (even between a user's different crypto wallets) 2) the second someone tries to convert it to spendable currency they now have a name to which they can trace back to the original transaction.

How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymitywww.wired.com Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.

monero's been out for a whole decade now if you're gonna spread misinformation about crypto at least get some talking points that aren't outdated by a complete decade thanks

this is literally an article from January of this year. but go on shilling your crypto.

did you read the part of the article that says it's (adapted from a 2022 book) about a 2013 paper bitcoin has never been private or pretended to be, and nobody serious has shilled bitcoin in the last decade either

I call dibs on the conspiracy theory that the "crypro is untrackable" claim was started by the government, so criminals would use it.

i mean, it is untraceable if you’re smart about it. it’s just that being smart about it makes it really hard to turn into cash

it's not untraceable at all. because every single transaction is recorded on the block chain.

*more difficult to trace not untraceable. theres a whole blockchain full of receipts for every transaction

I don't even get why crypto blockchain stuff is even a thing, from the sound of it the crypto is an ever increasing list of names, what happens in like 100 years when a single bitcoin has a blockchain that's like, 50 terabytes in size or something? I may just be misunderstanding it but idk

Thank Zeus. And bring back Silk Road so adults can avoid Puritan nanny-state government overreach!

flagging your preferred coin in order to boost its value by drawing in newbie investors is the crime. actually using it for its intended purpose - paying for things - is not. like hating house flippers but not having a problem with folks buying a home to live in

No, I kind of stopped on that, too. The self righteous always have an argument around hypocrisy, though.

Oh I thought that was just more trolling.

@retr0.id seems like you’ll get a kick outa this

can confirm

Modern day Robin Hood theme. I'm good with it.

Very light Grey Hats.

This is lovely news to read first in the day

this is stupid people saying this is based should get hacked just like this

Cry harder, tech bro.

if someone emptied your bank account and said it was because you used windows 11 would you accept your place as a "tech bro" or would you be rightfully upset?

also you literally have he/him pronouns in your bio and you're calling someone with she/her pronouns in her bio a "bro" either stop pretending that you're not transphobic or read what you're typing before you send it

1. AI “art” is literally driving artists out of work. These AI tech bros deserve to reap what they sow. 2. “Tech bro” is a generic term that refers to *those* kind of people, who are predominantly male. I’m not aware of a female-specific term for such people.

3. Why are you even defending those tech bros? They are going to come for you eventually. Once they do you will regret speaking in defence of them.

I mean I support anything that fights back against the theft which is AIT "art," but at the same time, it seems a bit hypocritical of them to both condemn crypto and then specifically ask for crypto in payment.

I think that part is meant to be facetious

Eh, I'm not so sure. There's really only one thing crypto is plausibly useful for (exchange of funds in an anonymous, digital, not gov't endorsed way) and if that's all it was used for, it wouldn't have the same cultural or environmental impact is has toast.

*it has TODAY

You love to see it.

lol. lmao.

Restore backup problem solved

Doesn't solve the problem if the vuln hasn't been patched tho

Also doesnt solve the problem if the malware can compromise accounts or confidential information (article specifically says crypto wallets were compromised off the back of this)

I should have read the article lol

Happens to the best of us haha. It's also like, only briefly mentioned in one paragraph halfway in, so it's easy to miss

Good point

The linked article claims that the malicious code existed since first commit

Well that's a problem

Amusing.

Very amusing and good. But I am confused about one of their sins is crypto promotion but they take crypto?

They can't exactly give out their PayPal As much as all crypto currencies are scams, they can still be used as a super risky form of money in that they're value is arbitrary and might as well be random Plus it's not ecologically friendly if they're taking Proof of Work crypto

Their*

difference imo between promoting crypto and accepting ransoms in it

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