Karsten Hahn

@struppigel.bsky.social

I asked a clanker to make me a prompt that I can use to generate images of malware, like literal pictures that represent malware such as the ones used in samplepedia, not PE images. I got a warning for cyber abuse with threats to shut down my account o.O

This seems to be a prevalent issue now: People vibe code security applications and the LLM generates real malware for testing. The generated test files rely on real threat actor infrastructure to download or exfiltrate. hxxps://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/blob/main/tests

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I wrote an article about SugarSMP Minecraft scams, Spark stealer, extortion and hacked accounts. After a brief contact to the threat actor, we talked to two victims and followed the trail. Analysis in collaboration with @rifteyy #GDATATechblog #GDATA blog.gdatasoftware.com/2026/03/3839...

Minecraft: SugarSMP's Dark Tale of Scams, Malware & Extortion

Some Minecraft players were looking for safe haven away from griefers, but found an elaborate web of malware, deception and extortion.

blog.gdatasoftware.com