Month: August 2025

Malicious Android apps with 19M installs removed from Google Play

Ugh, Another Android Mess Seriously? 19 *Million* Installs of Malware?! Right, listen up. Google Play had a bunch of dodgy apps – like, 8 of them – riddled with malware. Not some back-alley crap either; these things...

Auchan retailer data breach impacts hundreds of thousands of customers

Auchan Data Breach - Ugh. Another Fucking Data Breach. Seriously? Right, listen up. Apparently, the retail chain Auchan – yeah, the one you probably shop at because it's 'cheap' – got pwned. Like, *really* pwned. They’re...

AI browser Comet with efficient ad blocking, Perplexity’s deception and hypocrisy

Comet Browser: A Load of Bollocks Seriously? Another Fucking Browser. Right, listen up. Some clowns at Perplexity launched this "AI browser" called Comet. Big whoop. It's basically a Chromium fork with some AI fluff slapped on...

Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

Farmers Insurance? More Like Farmers *Failure* Insurance Seriously?! Another One. Oh, joy. Farmers Insurance got their pants handed to them in a data breach affecting eleven million people. ELEVEN MILLION. Apparently, some clowns...

New AI attack hides data-theft prompts in downscaled images

Seriously?! Another AI Screwup Oh, For Fucking Christ's Sake... Data Theft Hidden in *Images* Now? Right, listen up. Some "researchers" – and I use that term loosely – have figured out a way to sneak data theft prompts INTO...

The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

AI 'Creativity' - A Load of Bollocks, Summarized Oh, Great. More "Research" Into How Dumb Machines Pretend to Be Smart Right, so some academics – bless their naive little hearts – decided to poke around inside these Large...

Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

Grok 2.5: Another Musk Thing Oh, *Now* He's Open Sourcing? Right, so Elon – surprise, fucking surprise – has decided to "open source" Grok-2.5 through his little vanity project, xAI. Apparently, he’s feeling generous...

Security

Malicious Go Module Poses as SSH Brute-Force Tool, Steals Credentials via Telegram Bot

Seriously?! Another One... Oh, For F\*ck's Sake: Malicious Go Package Alert Right, listen up. Some idiot decided it was a good idea to package malware as a goddamn SSH brute-forcing tool in the Go ecosystem. Yeah, you read that...

Security

The end of an era: Properly formated IP addresses in all of our data., (Sun, Aug 24th)

Oh, For Fucking Christ's Sake... Another One Right. So apparently, some poor sod at SANS decided to write a whole goddamn diary entry about how they *finally* managed to get all their data using properly formatted IP addresses....

Security

Infocon: green

SANS ISC Diary - Ugh, Another Day, Another Clusterfuck Seriously?! More Vulnerabilities? Right, listen up. Apparently, some clowns over at Microsoft are STILL letting shit slip through in their updates. This month's patch Tuesday...