Headline lobs it.
Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware, a strong indication that devices belonging to him have been hacked in recent years.
Kyle Schutt is a 30-something-year-old software engineer who, according to Dropsite News, gained access in February to a “core financial management system” belonging to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
I have always seen very specific ages in any news article. The fact that someone that had access to the “Federal emergency management agency” and is only confirmed as a “30-something-year-old” (poor grammar by the way) alarms me.
Micah Lee killing it again.
How do people still get viruses? Nobody I know has legitimately gotten one in like 10 years
In the old days the viruses would just put a skull up on your screen or some other nonsense.
Now the virus hides and they track everything you do and steal all your passwords and banking information.
It’s better for them to not go loud. Otherwise they’ll be discovered. And the point is to stay hidden as long as possible to collect as much data as possible.
Most people don’t know their computers are infected.
I think the question is rather how do you even get infected in the first place?
Ads are a major vector. Like a pick pocket, they work best when placed among large crowds of people. The more folks you can brush against, the more pockets can be tried in passing. Sooner or later, you will get something.
Most malware exist to steal your data. Most people are infected with such malware today. They’re called apps.
Most free mobile apps today are malware
Porn sites
…which ones?
The weird ones
Just fix it with AI!
Hey. Easy now. We all know AI is only for financial trading, fucking over your employees to avoid severance and maintain control, or porn. That’s it.
I think you’re joking, but the most likely way the government will fix this is an AI powered threat detector, like Falcon from CrowdStrike.
Its cancer but they have a lot of federal contracts for their endpoint EDR
I mean, heuristics and an LLM could be better than either one on its own.
ugh, I hate how close this cuts
Foreign governments are feasting on the once secure data. I can’t imagine the self inflicted damage America has done to itself. I really can’t imagine what America’s enemies will do with this.
What could they possibly need to do? Osama Bin Laden illustrated very effectively that all you need to do is give Americans a little bloody nose- the US will happily spend the next 30 years trying to stop the bleeding by stabbing itself in the heart.
They won’t need to do much.
user names and passwords for logging in to various accounts belonging to Schutt have been published at least four times since 2023 in logs from stealer malware.
Oof. That’s embarrassing. He’s been oblviously leaking his credentials for months due to an earlier infection by malware.
Ars doesn’t let me say what I think should happen to all these DOGE traitors anymore, but man they are the fucking worst in every sense.
Well, when all is said and done, they’re gonna be “loose ends”. Not that that really helps much.
Convenient. Likely just plausible deniability.
This is it. The, “whoooo? Lil ole meeee? How was I supposed to know?”
“move fast and break things”
yeah no that’s not what that means
The opposite of the morning routine of a porter in the moving industry:
Break fast and move things
Well, I read it as just a description of Fred Durst in the late 90s/Early 00’s.
He’s rollin rollin rollin rollin, and if his day keeps goin’ this way, he’s gonna break something tonight!
Not the face, not the face!
Did he install it himself?
Like. Did download it and deploy it on the wrong computer?
“Infected”
Because of course it is. Just vibe it brah.
the onion, idc if the community is based on this premisse.
THIS IS CLEARLY SATIRE hahahaahah
What are you on about, dude? It’s arsTechnica
I believe they’re saying that they want to put their head in the sand and pretend that this article is fake satire.
I was sarcastic, sorry
Cant believe that this is actually happening, therefore rhetorical “this is clearly satire”
