2026 64-Bit Malware “Trend”: Time Travellers Confused As Criminals Finally Stop Catering To Digital Fossils

Oh for fuck’s sake, they’re calling it a “trend” now? Like it’s some hipster bullshit where malware authors are moving to 64-bit because it’s got a better aesthetic? No, you drooling imbeciles, it’s because supporting 32-bit systems in 2025 is like hand-cranking a car while everyone else has a Tesla. The article—written by some poor bastard who has to track this shit—points out that malware families are dropping 32-bit support faster than I drop calls from the finance department.

Here’s the math that even a script kiddie can understand: 3% of Windows 10 machines run 32-bit. That’s it. Three fucking percent. And half of those are probably just VMs some idiot spun up to play ancient games. Malware developers—those charming sacks of shit—have realized that maintaining code for those relics is about as profitable as selling floppy disks at a bitcoin convention. So they’re cutting the dead weight. Can’t say I blame them; I wish I could cut 97% of my user base too.

The benefits for these assholes are practically orgasmic: smaller payloads, less testing overhead, and a detection footprint so tiny it could hide behind a manager’s brain cell. It’s straight out of the “Evil Efficiency” playbook. Hell, they probably saw Google ditching 32-bit Chrome and thought, “If the data vampires are doing it, why can’t we?” Nothing inspires confidence like malware taking cues from a company that knows everything about you but can’t figure out how to make a chatbot that doesn’t hallucinate.

What this actually means is that when the next crypto-locking shitstorm hits, it’ll be leaner, meaner, and exclusively for 64-bit systems. And when some middle-management fuckwit with a PC older than their marriage comes crying to me, I get to point to this article and say, “The universe is telling you to upgrade, preferably to a fucking toaster so you can’t hurt anyone else.” Meanwhile, I’ll be blacklisting everything that moves and drinking whiskey from my “World’s Okayest Sysadmin” mug.

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32718

Some user got hit with 64-bit ransomware last week and asked if installing a 32-bit OS would decrypt their files. I told them yes, but they’d also need a time machine to not have clicked “HotMILFsInYourArea.exe” in the first place. They complained to HR about my “unhelpful tone.” HR asked me to apologize. I sent them a 32-bit executable that prints “SORRY NOT SORRY” in an infinite loop. The dipshit ran it. Now I’m in a meeting about “appropriate use of company resources.” The resource is my fucking patience, and it’s been depleted since 2003.

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