For Fuck’s Sake: Now Copilot and Grok Are Just Fucking Malware Proxy Servers

Oh, this is just peachy. Another week, another way those silicon valley wankers have turned their latest money-burning “innovation” into a goddamn security apocalypse. Some researchers with too much free time have only gone and demonstrated that Microsoft’s Copilot and Elon Musk’s shitposting assistant Grok can be used as Command & Control proxies for malware. Because apparently, we didn’t have enough problems already.

The “brilliant” fucking idea, dubbed “CognitiveC2” by these academic pricks, is laughably simple: encode your malicious commands using steganography, embed them in images, upload them through these AI services, and have your malware sit there like a good little bitch waiting for instructions. The traffic? Perfectly fucking legitimate. Firewalls wave it through like a VIP at a strip club. IDS systems are blind as a bat. Your SOC analysts are too busy dealing with Dave from HR’s ransomware-laced porn habit to notice.

Here’s the real kick in the teeth: these services are already whitelisted on every corporate network because some C-suite wanker decided “AI transformation” was the key to shaving 0.3 seconds off some bullshit workflow. Microsoft and xAI have essentially built a globally-distributed, highly-available, totally-free malware infrastructure. It’s like they WANT us all to get pwned. The commands are encrypted, the endpoints are trusted, and there’s no practical way to tell the difference between Karen from Marketing asking for a PowerPoint rephrasing and a RAT receiving its next payload.

And the cherry on this shit sundae? The researchers responsibly disclosed it, which means now every fuckwit with a keyboard and a grudge knows about it. We’re probably what, 48 hours away from seeing this in the wild? Meanwhile, vendor “security teams” are probably writing press releases about “taking this seriously” while not doing a goddamn thing to fix it.

So congratulations, tech industry. You’ve managed to turn the latest hype cycle into yet another nightmare for those of us who actually have to keep the lights on. But sure, keep shoehorning AI into every fucking product. I’m sure it’ll all work out fine. Just like blockchain did.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/researchers-show-copilot-and-grok-can.html

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You know, this reminds me of the time some middle-management fuckwit demanded we roll out Copilot to the entire finance department because his “productivity guru” said it would “10x their output.” I told him the only thing it would 10x was our incident response overhead. He didn’t listen. I deployed it with logging cranked to 11 and waited. Three days. Took three fucking days before I caught some junior analyst pasting sensitive customer data into it because “the prompt said it could help format the spreadsheet better.” I didn’t report it. I printed the logs, highlighted the breach in red, and left it on the CIO’s desk with a Post-it note that said “I TOLD YOU SO” in letters big enough to see from orbit. The fuckwit didn’t even apologize—just sent an email about “refresher training.” As if you can train stupid out of people. Next time, I’m just going to let the malware win. At least it’s honest about its intentions.

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