How do you do, fellow script kiddies?

May 30, 2024 12:27 PM

The FBI and Interpol announce Operation Endgame, the "largest ever operation against botnets". And they made some animated videos to go with it!
posted by chavenet (11 comments total)

Went to the animation first, natch. That knight... was that supposed to be edgelordy?
posted by y2karl at 12:47 PM on May 30 [1 favorite]

This is hilarious. Who are these videos even for? I can't imagine a sophisticated threat actor would be swayed to turn state's evidence based on some Matrix-ass motion comics.

Maybe it's designed to drum up support for more funding in Congress?
posted by Rhaomi at 12:51 PM on May 30 [2 favorites]

I also went to the animation first. But unfortunately my company's IT department doesn't appear to consider Interpol and the FBI to be trustworthy:

The Web site you requested is blocked by your organization.
URL https://www.operation-endgame.com:443
Reason Matched categories:
Newly Registered Websites
Sites whose domain name was registered recently
posted by nickmark at 1:05 PM on May 30 [3 favorites]

It's tone deaf in exactly the way you'd expect incompetent adults to be tone deaf towards the next generation, which makes me wonder.
posted by seanmpuckett at 1:09 PM on May 30 [1 favorite]

I didn't hate the animations. But, how weird!
posted by Glinn at 1:12 PM on May 30 [1 favorite]

Whatever it takes to get rid of these fuckers.
posted by Melismata at 1:14 PM on May 30 [2 favorites]

my company's IT department doesn't appear to consider Interpol and the FBI to be trustworthy

I mean, they're not completely wrong.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 1:15 PM on May 30 [7 favorites]

some of these videos sure are full of AI art, wow
posted by egypturnash at 1:34 PM on May 30 [1 favorite]

We're maybe overdue for cyber criminals to up their game, but there is so much low hanging fruit in botnets, smart contract stupidity, etc. We'll see what the botnet operators do next.

I suppose patient cyber criminals might migrate towards supply chain attacks. There are negligable defenses in the langauge package managers, and tools like inheritance make attacks much easier. Amusing stack overflow provided a cute attack vector recently. Also, langauge developers have zero interest in defenses against supply chain attacks, even Rust now wants a new mild inheretance form (RFC3624) that'll simplify supply chain attacks, like every form of inheretance does.

I avoid ethreum news mostly, but recently the DOJ brough charges against two guys who were front running the front runners.

It's vaguely like if Meta said they cannot prevent some scams in facegook groups, so we'll allow these class of small scams in facebook groups, so then the DOJ charged some guys who were scamming some of those scammers, just because Meta didn't put scaming scammer on the approved list. lol
posted by jeffburdges at 2:43 PM on May 30 [1 favorite]

They just don't put any oomph into operation code names like they used to.
posted by rhizome at 4:03 PM on May 30 [1 favorite]

I am disappoint that the web site does not feature a MIDI player with REM’s”Endgame” from the Out of Time album
posted by credulous at 11:09 PM on May 30 [2 favorites]