> Because:
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> 3. The exploit video had an anime girl in it
Lol, somehow I had missed this. Since I had to dig a bit for it, here it is for everyone’s enjoyment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWZrdzvooc (via https://calif.io/php2shell/#php-5-4-0-rce)
you new here?
It's a video of an underage-looking ("loli") anime girl insulting the viewer for being a pedophile.
At this point it's mostly used by pedophiles in a sorta tongue-in-cheek way.
Of course, all the best security professionals are either pedos, israelis, furries, or all of the above, so it's not really surprising.
All I know of Laughing Man in relation to exploits is from a small niche MMORPG called Toontown Online ( https://youtu.be/sGED1WcJhOM ).