all that invested money vanishes
Well it's mostly going directly to the hardware vendors (Nvidia) and infrastructure providers (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud et al.).
Malicious VSCode extensions infect Windows with cryptominers
Suggestions for music streaming services
This "Basic" Robot Solves REAL Problems (without AI)
Revival Hijack supply-chain attack threatens 22,000 PyPI packages
Yes, but this particular abusive feature is a result of misguided legislation, not profit-seeking.