<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: DANmode</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DANmode</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:09:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=DANmode" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DANmode in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Safe computing in general.<p>All a game, with liabilities abstracted away to customer service and two factor texts.</p>
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<p>Did you get the key?<p>We have to know how long it took.</p>
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<p>I haven’t seen a real customer experience in residences in ages.<p>Maybe there’s a connection.</p>
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<p>The user opens a WhatsApp link (or executes a file sent to them), Chrome WebRTC is exploited, shellcode invokes a Windows Kernel race condition, process escalates to Kernel/System privileges, Windows sandbox is bypassed, allowing the malware to drop the IME DLL and initialize the COM hijacking loop.<p>Memory safety, and a number of other glaring holes in common stacks, are ignored by the general public for the same psychological and effort-related reasons that people secure their whole lives with easily-picked Schlage locks, or windows/doors that can be defeated in under 5 seconds, often silently.<p>Most genuinely do not or can not believe tragedy can find them - until it has.</p>
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<p>Individual’s good work squashing a PR issue.</p>
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<p>They couldn’t get a permit from Hot Wheels in time for a better demonstration.</p>
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<p>> I wonder if the combustion version will even break 3 figures sales.<p>It’s an Apple Vision Pro.<p>They’ll do fine over the decade.</p>
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<p>…how are you measuring?<p>Also: why?</p>
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<p>> I have never heard anyone say anything except<p>What’s this have to do with the people you don’t hear talking about him being mostly totally ignorant about the person and subject?</p>
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<p>Do you want folks in the community to see and discuss it, or do you care about some sort of credit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:53:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115877</link><dc:creator>DANmode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DANmode in "Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260830111206/https://www.inventati.org/who/manifesto" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20260830111206/https://www.inven...</a></p>
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<p>> Circles probably matter.<p>Yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:35:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109082</link><dc:creator>DANmode</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DANmode in "Amsterdam server seized at request of U.S. authorities after Antifa allegations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See these terrorists for what they are:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260830111206/https://www.inventati.org/who/manifesto" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20260830111206/https://www.inven...</a><p>(Sarcasm, if anyone needs that.)</p>
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<p>Everyone knows <i>Snowden was a bad boy who got himself into trouble</i>.<p>That’s as much as your mom knows.</p>
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<p>No, they’re <i>using</i> those same techniques,<p>and they’re just as troublesome as they were before,<p>to the degree they’re provably being used to decide who to send malicious payloads to…<p>Zero-click simply highlights if the user needs to actively interact with an element to get a malicious payload - or not.<p>This did get me interested in the specifics of the payload, though:<p>“It maintains persistence via COM hijacking by overwriting a legitimate COM class registry key’s DLL path with a first-stage DLL dropped in C:\Windows\system32\IME\, and it stores encrypted second-stage payloads in the configuration directory. A signed third-party driver (physmem.sys) enables kernel-level memory access and API call proxying to avoid detection. To preserve system stability, DevilsTongue reinjects the original COM DLL during hijacking, disguising this action through shellcode manipulation of the LoadLibraryExW return value. All additional payloads are decrypted and executed only in memory, allowing the malware to steal credentials from LSASS and browsers, access Signal messages, and use browser cookies to impersonate victims on platforms like Facebook, Gmail, and VK. The malware’s use of scrubbed metadata, encryption, and unique hashes for each file further complicates detection and analysis.”<p>from
<a href="https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/tracking-candirus-devilstongue-spyware" rel="nofollow">https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/tracking-candirus-de...</a></p>
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<p>> The website didn't server the ad.<p>Sure it did. The content coming from elsewhere doesn’t change their decision to include it when the user loads their page.<p>It just makes the decision <i>wildly important</i>.<p>This is no different than the “I’m too big, can’t tell what my subsidiaries are doing!” <i>wink</i><p>Pay attention, do due diligence to do things correctly, or <i>don’t do them</i>.</p>
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<p>…that’s unironically true.<p>Everybody you know runs Linux on their router, set-top box, etc.<p>Big tech has moved on from amalgamating OS and UI features to copying <i>entire distros</i>.</p>
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<p>I imagine they figured out it didn’t work as well as a Hub when Netflix and three other things were running,<p>and didn’t feel like talking about it.</p>
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<p>What was the good part meant to be?</p>
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<p>The hardware makes the difference.</p>
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