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beep@beep@piefed.world
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Popular Twitch ad blocker caught sending live account credentials to Russian proxies

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1400813/popular-twitch-ad-blocker-caught-sending-live-account-credentials-to-russian-proxies

Threat Research Team identified a cross-store browser extension, “Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot,” that forwards each user’s live Twitch OAuth session token to proxy servers operated by a Russian commercial bot service. The extension ships on both the Chrome Web Store (extension ID pnhhdhhcadcjfckjhpmjneldiegbojfb, 30,000 users) and Firefox Add-ons (twitchenhancedviewer@example.com, 552 users). Both listings are live at time of writing.

socket.dev/blog/malicious-twitch-browser-extension
socket.devMalicious Twitch Browser Extension Exposes 30,000 Users’ OAuth Tokens to Russian Bot ServiceA Twitch browser extension on Chrome and Firefox forwards users’ live OAuth session tokens through proxies controlled by a Russian bot service.
M137@M137@lemmy.today
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Replying to @⁨pulsewidth@lemmy.world⁩

Sorry but I really think it’s AI. The only time I played around with AI of any kind was to see how it’d handle pixelart and it looked very similar to this. It’s good at a very quick glance but quickly falls apart (like a lot of AI things) as soon as you actually look at it.

I don’t see how a human could mess it up that oddly and badly. It would take more effort to make it this bad than just make actual pixel art, there are so many small things that make no sense as errors or sloppy/lazy human art.

pulsewidth@pulsewidth@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml⁩

Yeah, I had a peek too. It might be ai, but I haven’t seen any actual evidence of it - they use this pixel art style on a lot of their posts and it seems consistently decent.

Looking at their company photo they’re very well funded and also have a team of like 60 people, so there’s no reason they couldn’t have an in-house graphics artist or a freelancer they contract. Or it could be ai.

But in times where every modern graphics artists is being accused of being AI, I’m inclined to assume not rather than assume it is, without evidence to the contrary.