
LiterallyMe
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@itsalyxbaby @NeilNevins My youngest co-worker is legitimately 26 so no since I don’t work with children this isn’t something I’d be able to just ask someone at work about.
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I showed up early to a 5K in December and another runner in his early 20s started stretching next to me. We just shot the shit for like half an hour. I gauged that he would have been in high school during Covid and I asked what that was like.
mc cracker@chowder94
“i’m 30+ what would i even talk to a 20 year old abt” literally anything bro that is also an adult. i think u guys r spending too much time on the internet.
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“So God loves only American troops?”
“Yes”
“What about Iranians??”
“No”


James Martin, SJ@JamesMartinSJ
So God loves only American troops? Not innocent people who lost their lives in Iran? Where was God's "miraculous protection" for them? This is the inevitable result of believing that God is on "our side." It's making a false god in our image: a god who despises Iranians.
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Yeah, so pretty much this cpuid.com malware is a pain in the ass. I'd have to spend a good bit of time trying to bonk it with a stick and reconstruct some of it. Whoever developed this malware actually cares about evasion and made some intelligent decisions when developing this malware payload.
This appears to only impact HWMonitor 64bit. It appears (based on user reports) cpuid became malicious around 7PM EST, April 10th, 2026. However, it is possible it was much earlier than this, this is just when people began noticing and discussing it online.
From an extremely high-level overview, it appears the ultimate goal of this malware is data theft, specifically browser credentials. However, I could be wrong in that assessment, but I'm fairly confident in it. I'm guessing this is the end goal because when I emulated it I can see it messing with Google Chrome's IElevation COM interface (trying to dump and decrypt saved passwords). However, between this it does a bunch of other stuff too.
1. They (an unknown Threat Actor) compromised cpuid.com to deliver malware from HWMonitor. It impacts the actual installer as well as the portable installer. It downloads stuff from supp0v3-dot-com, the same domain used from a previous malware campaign targeting FileZilla in the beginning of March, 2026 initially reported by MalwareBytes.
2. HWMonitor comes packaged with a malicious CRYPTBASE.dll. CRYPTBASE.dll is a legitimate Windows library, but they made a fake one to blend in (malware masquerading). This DLL is responsible for connecting to their C2 and downloading the other malware stages.
3. It tries to detect emulation and prevent reverse engineering by checking for the presence of specific registry keys on the machine. However, they failed doing this and didn't account for everything. Notably, they only check for VirtualBox (whomp, whomp).
4. It downloads a .cs file from a remote C2 and then compiles it manually on the machine by invoking .NET stuff. This is an interesting strategy. It does all of this via Powershell (LOLBIN nonsense).
5. The .cs file it compiles is a .NET binary with NTDLL exports. The main HWMonitor binary performs process injection using this compiled .NET binary. This is an interesting strategy.
6. Almost everything it does is performed in-memory. I would have to do through this and manually bonk all of this stuff with a stick and determine precisely how it operates. However, I don't think that is necessary because at this point we know this is malware and we know it's trying to steal browser credentials.
+2 points for IElevation COM Interface credential dumping
+1 point for inline Powershell CLI DLL compilation
+1 point for .NET assembly NTDLL export proxying
-1 point for botched anti-emulation
+2 points for website compromise and supply chain attack
+1 point for memory persistence
-3 points for recycling the same C2 from March, 2026 campaign
Overall I give this malware a B-. This is pretty good malware.

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@tsarlet2 You forgot “making a ride time that’s only theoretical as it requires more years than the universe will exist for in order to run”
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This split exists in Rollercoaster Tycoon too, you're either playing it to kill guests in interesting ways or building the cool ride you wish existed at your local Six Flags
Or you're Marcel Vos and you build a park for optimal genocide rates or a giant calculator respectively




Truthful🛰️@Truthful_ast
Although Kerbal Space Program is blowing up again, I play the game very differently from most players as I don’t buy into the “hehe silly dumb alien” factor I just like to build my incredible rockets and spacecraft
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@AHarthcock @METALmimi_Mah People still awake at 6am vs people waking up at 6am
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@kinokochan99 @VlynnQ @mori_no_kuma85 The fact police intervention isn’t allowed boggles my mind. In Western countries, emergency services are empowered by law to save a child’s life if they’re trapped inside a vehicle due to neglect. The police would get in trouble if they didn’t intervene, in fact.
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@VlynnQ @mori_no_kuma85 日本も車内に閉じ込められて亡くなる子どもは多いです。日本も法律で警察が介入出来るようにして欲しい。70℃の熱さの中で子どもが死ぬのは残酷過ぎますね😭
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@PaulSkallas The real reason I’d never take a bike to work besides arriving sweaty and having to immediately shower is my route to work and home is very hilly and while a car can easily take a 10% hill, a bicycle cannot.
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@blu_iello @kos_data you're romanian right? I've been to Romania a few times it's not a virtual interaction, I know you guys, I even know how you're justifying theft
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@MatthewMaulding @Playerinthgame Yeah don’t fucking grow almonds in a desert
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@Playerinthgame I mean, in essence you're correct. But almonds take something like 1900 gallons of water per pound. I'm sure some discussion can be had around that, no?
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If you think datacenters are useful wait till you find out about food
Lauren@decent_shittalk
If you think data centers are using all the water wait till you find out about farms
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@FireThePyro My favourite part is the Soviets quietly bought them as well
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@MoralDynamics @JJ_McCullough Can’t wait for them to abolish elections to “protect democracy”
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@JJ_McCullough People underestimate the degree to which this Canadian sentiment is reflective of the ethos of feudalism
Our loyalist country is heading back to that governance system—and many love it : (
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There’s a certain idea that you hear a lot from the Canadian media that basically any random ass undemocratic thing that happens in Canadian politics is perfectly fine because that’s just “our system” and you should shut up and accept it. The voter should be understood to have zero influence over anything of actual consequence in terms of who runs this country, while the politicians should get to do whatever they want. Because that’s “our system.”
I feel like a lot of this stuff has a very gaslighting quality to it. When people make these blunt “our system” arguments they’re basically telling Canadians to not trust their own instincts of right and wrong or just or unjust. They’re told “this is just the way things are done here and if you complain you’re an ignorant simpleton.”
These arguments are ALWAYS made in the direction of giving more power to politicians and less power to voters. I’m getting sick of it.
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@openHR_za @troyhunt At YVR there’s a separate line for US citizens from the rest of the world, where this sign is, so the sign isn’t as silly as it looks at first glance. Once you go down the hall there’s an International Line and a USA line.
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@Chris__X__ He’s our first Ottoman President
Gilded everything
Retarded, constantly scheming sons
Slavic harem
Elaborate head gear
At war with Persia
Messes up address to Heathens
Losing face for military blunder which is turning into economic disaster
Let’s face it, he’s an Ottoman Sultan
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@Francis_F_Koala @osaka_seventeen Well, the nice part about spending 44 minutes on a Tokyo train is that's definitely more than one train. So you get to spend some time walking as you transfer. Even if it's underground passage, still better than just standing still, right?
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@pochigoro_tama @Hongnumongol99 I feel like the Japanese announcements should just be next station, transfer and maybe safety announcements, and English should include etiquette announcements like not talking loud or eating. I can’t imagine any Japanese person would ever consider eating on a subway for example.
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@Hongnumongol99 新幹線を利用した際マナーに関することを長々とアナウンスしてましたが、あれこそ英語で放送したほうがいいのではと思いました。まともな日本人なら別に言われなくてもわかってるよという内容だし、欧米系の乗客が多かったので。
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