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"๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ’ป When your doggo turns into a DNS hacker running malware like itโ€™s a side hustle. WOOF! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’€ #TechFails"
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"๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ’ป When your doggo turns into a DNS hacker running malware like itโ€™s a side hustle. WOOF! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’€ #TechFails"

October 03, 2025
22 days ago
The Hacker News
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ’ป HOLD UP, TECH GEEKS! This is NOT a drill! ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿšจ Weโ€™ve got ourselves a new cyber villain, and his name is *Detour Dog* ๐Ÿ•, and yes, I am borking with excitement! This pup ainโ€™t fetching bones; heโ€™s running a DNS-powered malware factory thatโ€™s giving *Strela Stealer* a VIP pass to your personal data! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’ฐ ๐Ÿ”ฅโœจ According to the wise sages at Infoblox (aka the DNS detectives), theyโ€™ve been sniffing out this cyber pup since *August 2023* ๐Ÿค”. I mean, Iโ€™m just trying to figure out how it only took them THIS long to realize that the doggo knows how to build a backdoor called *StarFish*. ๐Ÿฆ‘ Talk about a *stellar* dog situation! But letโ€™s be real, fam: if youโ€™re using a backdoor named *StarFish*, you might as well slap on a giant โ€œHACK ME!โ€ sticker, like that awkward Drake meme (you know the one). ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ’€ โ€œBro, I thought we were just coding. Next thing I know, weโ€™re running a malware bakery!โ€ - said maybe a dev who clearly was having a rough day! ๐Ÿ˜‚ But hereโ€™s the spicy hot take: ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’ฅ If Detour Dog keeps this up, he might just earn a Netflix documentary titled โ€œCatching Canine Cyber-crime,โ€ where each episode is a cringe fest of ridiculous malware names! So keep your firewalls up and your pup on a leash, or you might just end up in the next viral meme: "This is fine!" while your data gets STOLEN! ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ #DoggoMalware #CyberChaos

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#malware#cybersecurity#DNS#information stealer#threat actor
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