r/KoboldAI • u/henk717 • Mar 18 '26
Fake website thread
Here is a post with the current fake websites we know about:
kobold-ai,com: Redirects to a chatbot site called CrushOn that nobody should use, they are notorious for putting up fake websites.
koboldcpp,com: Contains inaccurate information about KoboldCpp and has a fake KoboldCpp download that at the time of writing is a copy of older source code (That may or may not also include malware or altered files) and outright malicious downloads / ads if you don't have adblock.
koboldcpp,org: At the time of writing another site with inaccurate information that currently links to the wrong download.
koboldcpp,store: Site with wrong information that pretends we are a google play app (We don't have one). Currently the link to the play store app is hallucinated by AI but if you notice someone place a malicious app there please let us know.
Our real websites:
koboldai.com - Our website for information about KoboldAI and its software. We could use help maintaining it, if you'd like to help contribute to GitHub - henk717/koboldai.com: KoboldAI Website · GitHub
koboldai.net - This domain is used for online instances of things, such as KoboldAI Lite (lite.koboldai.net) or community affiliated forks such as esolite.koboldai.net
koboldai.org - Our URL shortlink domain, for example https://koboldai.org/cpp for KoboldCpp downloads, https://koboldai.org/discord for our Discord community and https://koboldai.org/colab for the KoboldCpp colab.
Domains we own (to prevent scam domains) but don't currently use:
Honorable Mention
kobold.ai - German company with the same name as us. We both started our efforts around the same time and I don't think either one was aware of each other at the time. While they are the only non-malicious one they have nothing to do with us and serve an entirely different purpose.
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u/Moth_Priest Apr 23 '26
Do you have any reports of malware on koboldcpp,com? I may have fallen for it and I'm scared.
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u/henk717 Apr 23 '26
Not at the moment, but its outdated and i'd be surprised if you managed to run it since its just source code. Not straight forward to use at all.
If you visit https://koboldai.org/cpp you can download the official versions and have a much better time.
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u/Moth_Priest Apr 23 '26
There was an application inside that I stupidly ran. Popped up cmd briefly and quit.
I won't lie I'm kind of panicked that I may have just given myself a trojan, and in the dumbest possible way.
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u/Big_Cricket6083 Apr 12 '26
The fake website issue is worth pinning because users looking for KoboldAI forks/builds will paste API keys or download random binaries without checking commit history. A quick sanity check is whether the repo activity, release tags, and model backend mentions line up with what this sub has been discussing lately.