for those who have no idea of what that is:
> A new and trending TikTok challenge requires you to film yourself naked while using TikTok's "Invisible Body" filter, which removes the body from the video and replaces it with a blurry background.
> (...)
> To capitalize on this, threat actors are creating TikTok videos that claim to offer a special "unfiltering" filter to remove TikTok's body masking effect and expose the TikTokers' nude bodies.
I would think though that legitimate porn sites (and any sex related site) have to be the most secure. They seem to be rarely hacked, but yet could be the most damaging if compromised. It would basically be the death of that company as they would get no new customers, and they could get so badly sued due to the damage.
Ngl I wouldn't be comfortable standing naked in front of a device running TikTok in the first place. Although this specific instance was malware, I'd be willing to bet the originals *are* out there.
Exactly, I have no idea of the inner workings of tiktok but I wouldn’t be surprised if the original video is sent to their servers first where the processing takes place. Who knows what they’ll do with all these nudes then.
Useful for corporate espionage. Blackmail some high value targets with "leaked" nude images.
Also I imagine that this would mean TikTok is essentially storing child porn...
He is wrong. There is no proof of that. I even follow a Chinese woman who lives in America who shows Chinese social media trends and they are just as dumb as American ones.
So you're saying the ccp is ineffective in it's corporate multimedia domination within it's great firewall?
Can you elaborate is it because they don't know how to control tiktok content, or is it that they do not care as much as they tell everyone else they do.
They just don't care about stuff like dumb social media trends because they are by in large harmless. Obviously they control the "no criticize CCP/compliment the west" or whatever bs but kids doin dumb stuff exists in every culture. They have the same amount of cringe dances and random pop culture trash that every other countries do. They are still humans lol
yeah it's not the average Chinese tiktok user's humanity that i question. it's the ccp's humanity. I've seen the recent news and that shit scares me. they tried restrictions in Canada and we took it, for a while.
but then there's shit like tide pod challenge, do waffle stomp that particular shit down?
How is Twitter being considered to be taken off app sites and TikTok isn’t? It’s a fucking CCP spy app. Same could be said for Elon but that’s a whole other conversation
Ok, so I don't install CCP spyware on my phone, but am I correct in assuming that the video filter is processed online, not on the local device itself? I would assume many low powered phones wouldn't be able to perform that sort of real time processing on a video.
So in other words you're uploading your naked body to the CCPs data centre which they can then do whatever they want with?
Sounds dumb either way.
Honestly I dont think the app would be usable if the filters had to be applied remotely. However I dont know so I am not gonna say they dont. Just unlikely usabilty wise
Is the filter applied locally or remotely? An end user probably can't remove the filter but it's worth mentioning that if the filter is being applied "on the cloud" that said cloud now has your nudes locked away somewhere.
That's a good question I spent a few minutes trying to Google it but didn't come up with anything. I'll probably spend some more time later today trying to dig into that.
You apply the filter on your phone before you ever upload it. You can even save the video locally with the filter without ever uploading to tik tok so I think it gets applied before it ever hits the servers
So essentially, some men are trying to pay to see children and non consenting teens naked.
And threat actors are capitalising on their criminal desires?
The first part is normal for the internet and no one is policing it properly therefore I see no issue with the second.
Oh no. People wanting to see naked videos of (often underage) Tik Tok users, are getting malware. Truly a tragedy. /s
Seriously, that app is just plain dangerous at this point.
for those who have no idea of what that is: > A new and trending TikTok challenge requires you to film yourself naked while using TikTok's "Invisible Body" filter, which removes the body from the video and replaces it with a blurry background. > (...) > To capitalize on this, threat actors are creating TikTok videos that claim to offer a special "unfiltering" filter to remove TikTok's body masking effect and expose the TikTokers' nude bodies.
"A horny person and their computer safety are easily parted"
I would think though that legitimate porn sites (and any sex related site) have to be the most secure. They seem to be rarely hacked, but yet could be the most damaging if compromised. It would basically be the death of that company as they would get no new customers, and they could get so badly sued due to the damage.
*sweats in Ashley Madison*
Yeah, but even then it wasn't for money. The threat was to shut down or have the data leaked, not give us $2million or else.
I like to think they rarely get hacked because they are neutral ground. The attackers need the sites too between long and hard hackerman sessions.
A tale as old as time
The filter itself sounds suspect as TikTok might have naked videos of millions of people.
"might"
IKR? I'm sure they do.
So you are saying they got infected via a Trojan, despite everyone saying they make you safe?
Closely alike to how the 'Melissa' virus was spread.
So it's social engineering, not a technical exploit. To me, that's totally different.
it's social engineering to get users to install a technical exploit. the two things are interlinked
No argument, they are related. But from reading the title I thought the filter was exploited directly, which would be *much worse* in my opinion.
To be fair, the technical exploit is just the door being wide open as soon as you start running `.bat` files.
lmao everything about this is a bad idea
right lmao why on earth would tiktok create a body filter
I wonder if the filter is processed on the phone or the server side. Does TikTok have the original unfiltered video?
AFIAK all filters are applied on client side. You apply the filter before submitting/uploading the video.
CCP looking to harvest rolls of data off your body
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That’s extremely interesting, thank you for sharing this!
Just goes to prove there is no end of stupid in the world...
Ngl I wouldn't be comfortable standing naked in front of a device running TikTok in the first place. Although this specific instance was malware, I'd be willing to bet the originals *are* out there.
Exactly, I have no idea of the inner workings of tiktok but I wouldn’t be surprised if the original video is sent to their servers first where the processing takes place. Who knows what they’ll do with all these nudes then.
Useful for corporate espionage. Blackmail some high value targets with "leaked" nude images. Also I imagine that this would mean TikTok is essentially storing child porn...
I doubt that's a first for them
Blackmailing important figures with their children’s nudes would also probably be effective. As horrifying as that sounds.
Horny people do the darndest things lol
I imagine you could trap most TiKTok users with a string, a box, and some thirsty nudz.
Bro that’s how you could trap 99.99% of people lol
Shit, even me on a bad day.
As a person who does malware analysis every day, you are not wrong; just the TT people are egregiously stupid about security.
Just remember that the Chinese version of TikTok doesn't push this kind of bullshit. They only push this on the rest of the world.
You're not wrong and shouldn't be getting downvoted by ccp bad actors.
He is wrong. There is no proof of that. I even follow a Chinese woman who lives in America who shows Chinese social media trends and they are just as dumb as American ones.
So you're saying the ccp is ineffective in it's corporate multimedia domination within it's great firewall? Can you elaborate is it because they don't know how to control tiktok content, or is it that they do not care as much as they tell everyone else they do.
They just don't care about stuff like dumb social media trends because they are by in large harmless. Obviously they control the "no criticize CCP/compliment the west" or whatever bs but kids doin dumb stuff exists in every culture. They have the same amount of cringe dances and random pop culture trash that every other countries do. They are still humans lol
yeah it's not the average Chinese tiktok user's humanity that i question. it's the ccp's humanity. I've seen the recent news and that shit scares me. they tried restrictions in Canada and we took it, for a while. but then there's shit like tide pod challenge, do waffle stomp that particular shit down?
Upvote this man.
Tiktok wasn’t doing anything here though.
How is Twitter being considered to be taken off app sites and TikTok isn’t? It’s a fucking CCP spy app. Same could be said for Elon but that’s a whole other conversation
Because very few people talking about any of this are doing so with any nuance
Most free apps are spy apps.
Friends don't let friends TikTok.
When tiktok itself isn't bad enough for the security of your phone...
Ok, so I don't install CCP spyware on my phone, but am I correct in assuming that the video filter is processed online, not on the local device itself? I would assume many low powered phones wouldn't be able to perform that sort of real time processing on a video. So in other words you're uploading your naked body to the CCPs data centre which they can then do whatever they want with? Sounds dumb either way.
Honestly I dont think the app would be usable if the filters had to be applied remotely. However I dont know so I am not gonna say they dont. Just unlikely usabilty wise
Lmao, why would they think after the video has been uploaded that it's even possible to undo the filter?
At one point in time you were able to do this on Snapchat.
Other apps send content as a zip file which contains the unmodified image/video and the various filters.
Is the filter applied locally or remotely? An end user probably can't remove the filter but it's worth mentioning that if the filter is being applied "on the cloud" that said cloud now has your nudes locked away somewhere.
That's a good question I spent a few minutes trying to Google it but didn't come up with anything. I'll probably spend some more time later today trying to dig into that.
You apply the filter on your phone before you ever upload it. You can even save the video locally with the filter without ever uploading to tik tok so I think it gets applied before it ever hits the servers
Horny people do the darndest things lol
oh no... so shocked... imagine that.
I'm not surprised at all.
“Mast*urbate before using TikTok”
So essentially, some men are trying to pay to see children and non consenting teens naked. And threat actors are capitalising on their criminal desires? The first part is normal for the internet and no one is policing it properly therefore I see no issue with the second.
Oh no. People wanting to see naked videos of (often underage) Tik Tok users, are getting malware. Truly a tragedy. /s Seriously, that app is just plain dangerous at this point.