PSA: you can ignore the entirety of the LLM-industrial-complex without falling for the “see they are useful for something after all” narrative:

- these systems are based on theft (some of that still makes its way through the courts)

- they are designed to centralise power in the hands of very few people who are also objectively the worst people

- the businesses are not sustainable, nobody disagrees the bubble will pop before long, so making your craft depend on a subscription seems silly

Been working on an important series of follow-up stories about the evolution of the Aisuru botnet, an Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet that's been blamed for successive record-smashing DDoS attacks in recent months. Meanwhile, the people who have controlled Aisuru for some time recently insisted up and down that they were not responsible for the massive Aisuru attacks of late.

Hats off to Xlab for this incredible report, which explains (to a degree) how Aisuru gave rise to a distinct botnet called Kimwolf, which has an estimated 2-3 million infected hosts and is growing rapidly. I don't have to tell anyone that if 800k bots from Aisuru can down the largest sites on the internet, Kimwolf can take down entire countries.

https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/p/13ae0f3c-a75d-4764-b8f2-37e14f976935/