Twitter has open-sourced their recommendation algorithm.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

🚨 !!!!BREAKING!1!! 🚨

vx-underground, the infamous hacker forum and ransomware aktivist collective, has had their domain seized by EUROPOL

!!!!ALL PASSWORDS HAVE BEEN CHANGED!!!!

If you or a person you know has been a victim of vx-underground, please contact Joe Biden

Haha April Fool's.

We gotcha so good, you frickin nerds 😎

Our website has been restored. The prank is over.

Please download malware.

https://www.vx-underground.org/

POV: you're a network administrator enforcing a password expiration policy. Every user on the network has successfully updated their password.

The password: Spring2023!

We've updated the vx-underground "The Old New Thing" archive from Raymond Chen for the month of March, 2023.

Check it out here: https://www.vx-underground.org/the_old_new_thing.html

We've updated the vx-underground Malware Defense collection. We've added 144 news papers.

Data via malpedia. Special thanks to @BradleyVX for aggregating it.

Check it out here: https://www.vx-underground.org/malware_defense.html

The open sourced Twitter algorithm has been assigned its first CVE: CVE-2023-29218.

tl;dr denial of service via reduction of reputation score

Intel via Ax_Sharma

More information: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29218

Our malware database will be moving into beta soon. It will be free and publicly available. We will also open source it.

It is bare bones, but it will allow you to search for malware samples by hash

We did this on a budget of $0. We rely on your donations to survive.

Thank you

We will also allow individuals to upload their own malware samples discovered.

*vetted researchers, so it is not junk malware

More to come. All thanks to the hard work of guessthepw and DuchyRE

Final note: this is not meant to compete with any vendor. This is to allow individuals, researchers, or the morbidly curious, a way to get malware samples without costing a fortune.

tl;dr free education, free information

Yesterday we tweeted IntelBroker had compromised the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services by discovering a publicly exposed AWS bucket.

Today the USCIS released a public statement regarding the incident.

tl;dr they state it is a vendor provided demo account

Genesis market, the infamous initial access brokerage forum, has been seized by the United States Department of Justice in cooperation with EUROPOL in what was named "Operation Cookie Monster".