they estimate the operator made around $8,000.

the network could have started operating as early as August 2022 and may have made as much as $100,000

I know very little about this stuff but it seems to me that if it is a Russian as implied, it looks like a lot of work for that amount of pay off.

The real money could well be from the use of the tools being sold, rather than all this paid for distribution. But then why not just do that?

Or, as seems most likely to me, there is another, less fiscal reason for the activity. Russian state backed hackers exist.

Well said! I’ve no idea at all and don’t actually do any of this stuff.

I do, however, advocate for the practice and it’s ethics and I learn things just by being here, whether that’s technical or otherwise.

Thanks to you all.

But the former’s app on mobile is a shit show.

Revanced.

Hmmm, <looks at mid 2000s hard drive full of music not listened to in years> I wonder if that thing still works?

This may be a silly question but why don’t you just use a Chromecast?