AI-Generated Malware: Because Script Kiddies Weren’t Lazy Enough Already

Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when I thought my day couldn’t get any more excruciating—stuck between users who can’t find the power button and management demanding I “synergize the cloud paradigm”—some twat decides to let an AI write their goddamn malware. Enter “Slopply,” the digital equivalent of a toddler finger-painting with its own shit, now being wielded by the Interlock ransomware wankers.

This particular bucket of piss, discovered by the poor bastards at DomainTools, is a PowerShell loader so lazily crafted it might as well have been written by ChatGPT while taking a smoke break. Oh wait, it probably was. The Interlock gang—a fresh crop of digital extortionists who apparently target FreeBSD servers because they enjoy making niche operating systems cry—are using this AI-generated slop to drop their crypto-locking crapware on unsuspecting victims.

The code is exactly what you’d expect when you let a Large Language Model loose without adult supervision: functional but fucking atrocious. It’s got all the elegance of a brick through a window, packed with redundant functions, obvious telltale strings, and enough debugging artifacts to make a forensic analyst weep with joy. But here’s the kicker—it works. This botched abortion of a script successfully downloads and executes their ransomware payload, which means we’re now officially in the era where any drooling moron with a ChatGPT subscription can generate bespoke malware between wanking sessions.

They named it “Slopply” because it’s sloppy AI slop. How fucking quaint. Meanwhile, I’m supposed to explain to the board why our “next-gen AI-powered security solution” costs six figures but can’t detect PowerShell scripts that read like they were written by an intern having a stroke. The researchers reckon this is just the beginning, too. Soon every skiddy and their dog will be prompting Claude to write polymorphic malware while they sit back eating Cheetos and watching Bitcoin wallets fill up.

So now, on top of patching the endless stream of vulnerabilities, resetting passwords for users who think “Password1234!” is secure, and explaining to finance why we can’t just “use AI to fix the AI problem,” I get to deal with machine-learning-generated malicious code that’s somehow both elegantly obfuscated and written like shit. Marvellous. Absolutely fucking marvellous.

Read the full horror story here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ai-generated-slopoly-malware-used-in-interlock-ransomware-attack/

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Speaking of AI writing garbage code, last week the Director of Operations decided to “optimize” our ticketing system by having ChatGPT rewrite the entire database schema. Took me three days to explain to the pillock that replacing all our INTs with VARCHARs because “AI said it’s more flexible” was the reason the entire helpdesk infrastructure was now running slower than a sloth on valium. I fixed it by restoring from backup and “accidentally” deleting his Python scripts folder. He thinks it’s a hardware issue. It is now.

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