In a move that perfectly embodies the spirit of cozy capitalism, over 1,000 instances of ComfyUI have been compromised to join the world’s least energy-efficient get-rich-quick scheme: a cryptomining botnet. Because who wouldn’t want to turn a stable diffusion platform into an unstable financial plan?

These hackers, clearly fans of the ‘everything is a resource’ school of thought, have designed a Python scanner that tirelessly scours cloud IP ranges. It seems like cryptocurrency mining is the gig economy job no one asked for but everyone’s ComfyUI instance now has.

The move is hailed as groundbreaking in showcasing how to repurpose technology for monumental inefficiency. Forget minimizing carbon footprints; let’s pave the future with fossil-fueled server farms! In a world where data is the new oil, these hackers are practically environmental activists—just not in any way we actually need.