Malware Memes

Open source maintainers having to explicitly tell contributors not to add malware is like telling a fox not to eat your chickens. That single bullet point in the contribution guide is doing some heavy lifting—as if malicious actors read documentation and go "oh darn, guess I'll have to find another repo to corrupt." The desperate plea of "Please do not add malware" has the same energy as Dora telling Swiper not to swipe. Spoiler alert: Swiper's gonna swipe anyway.

The AUDACITY of open source projects having to explicitly tell contributors "Please do not add malware" is sending me to another dimension! 💀 Like, imagine submitting your PR and thinking "hmm, should I solve this bug OR secretly install a keylogger that steals everyone's credit card info?" The fact that this needs to be a written rule is both HILARIOUS and TERRIFYING. It's giving "Swiper no swiping" energy but for hackers trying to sneak in backdoors. The maintainers are basically Dora, desperately trying to stop the malicious foxes of the coding world!

Ah, the classic Scooby-Doo unmasking format but with a cybersecurity twist! Your CPU's pegged at 100% and you're thinking it's just normal load... until you pull off the mask and—surprise!—it's actually a sophisticated state-sponsored backdoor quietly mining crypto or exfiltrating your data. That xz exploit in a nutshell. Eight months of silent operation before anyone noticed. Just another Tuesday in infosec where the real villains aren't wearing monster costumes, they're wearing nation-state budgets.

The pun that launched a thousand security breaches! This wordplay masterpiece combines "ran somewhere" with "ransomware" - because what do hackers do after deploying their malicious code? They don't stick around for the aftermath, they run . Meanwhile, their ransomware stays behind, encrypting files and demanding Bitcoin payments like an uninvited houseguest who locks all your cupboards and charges you to use your own silverware. The perfect crime - terrible for the victim, but the perpetrator is already halfway to a non-extradition country with surprisingly good Wi-Fi.

The world's most polite malware just slid into your DMs! When your antivirus is so underfunded it has to rely on the honor system. Honestly, this virus deserves a job in customer support with that level of politeness. It's basically the equivalent of a burglar knocking on your door and asking if you'd mind leaving some valuables outside for them to steal. The best part? Someone out there probably clicked "Yes" because they felt bad for it. Social engineering at its most adorably pathetic.

The eternal battle between corporate streaming services and the high seas of piracy summed up in one perfect comparison. On one side: Pay $19.99/month for questionable 1080p quality, limited to 6 devices, and the warm fuzzy feeling that you're helping some CEO buy a third yacht. On the other: Get pristine 8K UHD BDRip for exactly $0, use it everywhere, enjoy the cultural enrichment of random Eastern European subtitles, and that reassuring disclaimer that definitely makes everything totally legal. The "it's literally a video, it can't have a virus" part is that special blend of technical naivety that's gotten many a developer's personal laptop reformatted after downloading "WandaVision.S01E09.FINAL.exe"

The dad joke that makes security professionals cry themselves to sleep. When someone asks where the IT guy went and responds with "He probably ran some ware " (ransomware), they've committed a pun so criminally bad it should be encrypted and held for ransom itself. Just like actual ransomware, this joke encrypts all joy in the room until someone pays the price of a courtesy laugh. Security teams everywhere are now implementing pun-detection software.