Yes, they are real. And quite active. Some unverified source threw around the number of >1000 victims in 2026 alone. I think it was ransomware.live. At least a couple of hundred can be counted as victims with more or less certainty. The affiliates business is very very active currently.. as Brian Krebs summarized in a couple of blog posts already.
Feels like almost everyone with some it background in russia tries to jump on one of the raas as an affiliate at the moment. More and more new faces are entering the stage right now.
Inflated use of the term zero-day, while none of the described vulnerabilities is actually a zero-day. But it sounds and clicks good..
thank you for the PoC.
Please do not confuse funding with traction. These things are not related necessarily. In best case, a funded team gets traction and will be able to perform in a profitable relation to that funding. Your angle should be building a small but steady user base and build on that. While others are competing against time and expectations, you compete against visbility and trust. Your competitors aren't your competition you should care about. It should be, how to communicate to the users more effectively.
You need a chrystal clear usp. The site looks like it is for everybody, it is for everything, all at once and without any specialty compared to the thousands of other ai websites and service. The generic questions always are, who should use it and why.. That needa to be answered within the first 3 seconds. E.g. Animation Artists use it for getting from idea to clip in 5 minutes instead of 5 hours...
Isn't this a bit of lame pr to share a very general blog post on hacker news? There are some rough milestone mentioned, what they plan to achieve in the future. But nothing about achieved metrics, track records, finished projects or even linka to this projects. This creates an impression of just greenwashing.
The Buy button is kinda signaling, that they don't understand, what Winamp and this whole time was about... New tools with a frenetic mdding scene behind it, max customization, no tutorials, but digging through every file to see what you can change, bulky windows, which all needed to be arranged aside, like browser, napster, icq, winamp, your cs server chat in a thick browser.
I miss these times too. And I’d like to remind you that Winamp used to be a $10 shareware app (that’s roughly $30 in today’s dollars). The first version of Winamp didn't have any windows, it was pure utility application. Do you still think there's value in "max customization"?
Yes, they are real. And quite active. Some unverified source threw around the number of >1000 victims in 2026 alone. I think it was ransomware.live. At least a couple of hundred can be counted as victims with more or less certainty. The affiliates business is very very active currently.. as Brian Krebs summarized in a couple of blog posts already.
Feels like almost everyone with some it background in russia tries to jump on one of the raas as an affiliate at the moment. More and more new faces are entering the stage right now.
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