Surprised this did not get as much coverage. The Australian government produced this report last week which studied CCP ties to TikTok, the executive summary alone is pretty fascinating:
I would love to try it, but I’ll wait until the registration pop up is gone and the HN attention stops DOSing the backend. But from the sound of the website description this is a next and welcome step in the semi intelligentification of anything
"Stage2.exe is a downloader for a malicious file corrupter malware. Upon execution, stage2.exe downloads the next-stage malware hosted on a Discord channel, with the download link hardcoded in the downloader."
One thing I am incredibly cognizant of is the balkanization of the web. Different territories and privacy regimes will dictate various compliance steps... navigating this will be difficult. As a site operator I plan on collecting analytics accordingly, with a polymorphic payload that knows whats allowed to be collected where possible...