The New American Hustle: Dividends Over Day Jobs
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An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.

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2025-09-02 19:10:02

Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up

An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.

Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. “We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and encrypt all its data,” the message on the site said, according to screenshots taken before the site went down on Tuesday. “If you are a user of this website, you are urged to contact the owners and insist that they pay our ransom. If this ransom is not paid, we will release all data publicly on this Tor site, including source code and personal data of users. Additionally, we will submit all artwork to AI companies to be added to training datasets.”

LunaLock promised to delete the stolen data and allow users to decrypt their files if the site’s owner paid a $50,000 ransom. “Payment is accepted in either Bitcoin or Monero,” the notice put on the site by the hackers said. The ransom note included a countdown timer that gave the site’s owners several days to cough up the cash. “If you do not pay, all files will be leaked, including personal user data. This may cause you to be subject to fines and penalties under the GDPR and other laws.”

Most of LunaLock’s threat is standard language for a ransomware attack. What’s new is the explicit threat to give the site’s data—which includes the unique artwork and information of its users—to AI companies. “This is the first time I see a threat actor use training AI models as part of their extortion tactic,” Tammy Harper, a senior threat intelligence researcher at the cyber security company Flare, told 404 Media. “Before this it was kind of an assumption that victim data could end up being shared through AI models. Especially if the groups use it to find leverage and process the data to calculate ransom amounts.”

Harper said that this kind of threat could be effective against artists. “It’s a very sensitive subject for this type of victim (an art marketplace.) LunaLock is definitely using and hoping for the clients and artists of the victim to pressure them into paying the ransom.”
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It’s unclear how LunaLock would get the artistic data to AI companiesOf course, it might be as simple as setting up an independent website full of the data on the open web and waiting for one of the LLMs crawlers to come and devour the information. Or just starting a chat with the companies’ respective chatbots and uploading the images, depending on each company’s policy on how they train their AIs based on user uploads.

As of this writing, Artists&Clients is down and attempts to reach it trigger a Cloudflare error. But users and cyber security accounts are sharing screenshots of the ransomware note on social media. Google also indexed the ransom note and as of writing, it appears in the description of the site when you look it up in the search engine.

Artists&Clients did not respond to 404 Media’s request for a comment.

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What are the Benefits of Implementing an EHR-Integrated SMS Text Remote Patient Monitoring Platform? #technology

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Esame di Maturità: ecco come cambia nel 2026
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Esame di Maturità: ecco come cambia nel 2026

Il Consiglio dei Ministri ha approvato il decreto-legge con la riforma dell’Esame di Maturità. Commissioni più snelle e obbligo di fare l'orale

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1. Monica Helms, the creator of the transgender flag and Navy Veteran, is leaving the US due to anti-LGBTQ+ persecution. “We are worried there’s a possibility something could happen where we end up getting arrested just for being who we are,” Helms said. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Creator Of The Trans Flag Is Fleeing The US Due To LGBTQ Persecution

In May, a Williams Institute poll found that nearly half of all trans adult respondents had considered moving out of state or out of the country.

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A Capannori prende il via l’edizione autunnale dell’iniziativa ‘Palestre sotto il cielo’
Attività negli spazi pubblici all’aperto, senza dover pagare il suolo pubblico e con un iter semplificato di concessione

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Jeanine Pirro’s Office Drops Another D.C. Crime Case As String Of Losses Continues
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeanine-pirro-dc-crime-crackdown-prosecution_n_68b9fea4e4b0e20f601b521a?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Jeanine Pirro’s Office Drops Another D.C. Crime Case As String Of Losses Continues

The prosecution of Trump's D.C. crime crackdown is not going well for the former Fox News personality.

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Previsioni meteo, supplemento di vacanze: weekend con sole e temperature in aumento
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Previsioni meteo, supplemento di vacanze: weekend con sole e temperature in aumento

Da mercoledì arriveranno, invece, dei temporali che colpiranno il Nord e la Toscana

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RFK Jr. kept insisting in his hearing that COVID19 vaccines are accessible to everyone, and he also made this false claim last week. In fact, yesterday Defend Public Health chose this particular RFK Jr. lie as our Whopper of the Week.

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Whopper of the Week: Kennedy claims that COVID19 vaccines are accessible to all who want them | Defend Public Health

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We must protect Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville at all costs

"Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville interrupts TV interview to call for action on Gaza"

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Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville interrupts TV interview to call for action on Gaza

Bonneville made the plea on the red carpet in London during the premiere of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.

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Bomba de combustível criptografada será obrigatória em postos
https://www.tecmundo.com.br/seguranca/406832-bomba-de-combustivel-criptografada-sera-obrigatoria-em-postos.htm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Bomba de combustível criptografada será obrigatória em postos

A nova tecnologia, que objetiva prevenir o "golpe da bomba baixa", deverá ser adotada em todo o Brasil a partir de 2029.

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Cantiere lungo tre mesi. La Bientinese resta chiusa. Stop totale ai camion
Collocati ad Altopascio i cartelli che indicano le percorrenze alternative. I lavori sono commissionati dalla Provincia di Pisa e riguardano due ponti.

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Cantiere lungo tre mesi. La Bientinese resta chiusa. Stop totale ai camion

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Look at her face when he starts talking about Gaza

Likes of her are completely out of touch segment of society, who get pay cheque by shoveling elite shit in the face of peasants discussing useless shit & gossip of those about whom there is very little good reason to care about (except them being shoved down everyone's throat by the media thats owned by Capital).

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Bloomberg Law: Trump Can't Use Wartime Law to Deport
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Novo filme de Street Fighter é confirmado para outubro de 2026; conheça o elenco
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Houthis Detain 11 UN Staff, Calling Them 'Spies' For US & Israel

Houthis Detain 11 UN Staff, Calling Them 'Spies' For US & Israel

Last Saturday, Israel conducted its major airstrikes on Sanaa which killed the Houthi prime minister, Ahmed al-Rahawi, among other top officials in the Houthi government. The operation has been widely reported as constituting the biggest single loss of Houthi leadership.

The following day, Sunday, Houthi militants stormed the offices of two United Nations agencies in the capital, specifically the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF), according to UN leadership and various international reports.

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These offices ere "entered by local security forces" and some WFP and UNICEF staff members were detained. This week it was confirmed that eleven of these UN staff members have still been in Houthi detention.

A fresh statement from the Iran-aligned Shia militant group has accused the detained UN aid workers of being spies for the US and Israel.

"Those who were arrested from among the United Nations employees are accused of spying for the American and Israeli aggression," an official Houthi statement france24.com/en/live-news/2025…
. "Whoever has the accusations against them confirmed will be referred to trial."

Yemeni security sources have further rounded up dozens of other people "on suspicion of collaborating with Israel" they recently told AFP.

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The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said in a statement: "I strongly condemn the new wave of arbitrary detentions of UN personnel today in france24.com/en/tag/sanaa/
... as well as the forced entry into UN premises and seizure of UN property."

He said that "at least 11 UN personnel were detained" and demanded that they be "immediately and unconditionally" released.

The Houthis were already detaining 23 UN personnel, some since 2021 and 2023, he added. In January, the Huthi rebels detained eight UN workers.

The WFP still says it is "urgently seeking additional information" concerning those newly detained.

Israel officials and media described that Israeli intelligence had monitored the gathering of Houthi leaders in real time on Saturday, just before the strike.

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Like in Iran, it is very probable that Mossad and IDF military intelligence do have assets and spies inside Yemen. However, it's unknown whether any would be embedded in UN programs, but this is for sure a tactic which has been used by various foreign intel services in the past - utilizing NGOs to penetrate a country.

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Fading US Reliability Deepens Australia and Japan Security Ties
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Billionaires Fuel High-Stakes California Redistricting Clash
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JD Vance Drops 'S-Bomb' In Furious Post Over RFK Jr. 'Gotcha' Questions
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JD Vance Drops 'S-Bomb' In Furious Post Over RFK Jr. 'Gotcha' Questions

The vice president didn't seem to like the bipartisan beatdown of the Health and Human Services secretary.

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Anutin Set to Win Thai Parliament Vote as Third PM in Two Years
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Esper? I barely know 'er!

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Psquale D'Ascola eletto Presidente Cassazione, Mattarella: Auguri a Magistrato di indiscusso valore - Il video
https://www.open.online/2025/09/04/psquale-ascola-eletto-presidente-cassazione-mattarella-auguri-magistrato-indiscusso-valore/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Psquale D'Ascola eletto Presidente Cassazione, Mattarella: Auguri a Magistrato di indiscusso valore - Il video

(Agenzia Vista) Roma, 04 settembre 2025 "Desidero rivolgere le mie congratulazioni al dottor D'Ascola con gli auguri per il compito che gli è stato affidato di presiedere la Corte di Cassazione.

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