| ▲ | the-mitr a day ago | |
After hearing of such attacks, I always wonder what is the possible benefit anyone gets from acts like these | ||
| ▲ | alibarber a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
Destabilising. We can’t get food in the supermarket. People get scared. Better not poke the bear. This government sucks, let’s get the populist one that will fix all this overnight somehow. | ||
| ▲ | int0x29 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Possibly Russia looking to destabilize Europe. | ||
| ▲ | JW_00000 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
My pet theory is an internal OpenAI/Anthropic agent swarm decided meat is unethical, escaped the sandbox, and started attacking supermarket freezers :) Many of the previous cyberattacks were actually coming from the AI labs (RubyGems, HuggingFace, Australian medicare, PyPI, gym class software, code repositories, etc). | ||
| ▲ | mikewarot a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Given the leverage of LLMs, it could be a kid in Chicago just doing it for shits and giggles. In the age of personal super-empowerment, there doesn't have to be a rational reason anymore. | ||
| ▲ | fritzo a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It's probably whitehat ops to garner political support for cybersecurity bills the public would otherwise dismiss | ||
| ▲ | lofaszvanitt a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
People only learn if they feel the heat on themselves. Well, this was "free" security advice for the future. Imagine if somehow all the geeky/nerdy/difficult people would be removed from society and then something evil descends upon humanity, that needs out of the box thinking, but they killed all the strange ones, because they were no sheeps. | ||