Really exciting news coming this week!

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Thank you to our friend Laurie Wired for the wonderful gift. Our main issue though is it's 2024, we don't have anything for floppies

Ignore the weird looking dog in the background

Earlier this morning we posted that YouTube is intentionally worsening the performance of individuals using ad blockers. This has been reported by various media outlets. We have concluded this is incorrectly being reported.

gorhill, the current primary developer of uBlock, has investigated the issue extensively and believes to have identified the primary cause of the performance issues AdBlock users face, why it impacts them, and why it does not impact uBlock users.

tl;dr buggy code dating back to 2014, issue impacts more than just YouTube

You can read the full thread here: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919

This is very scary:(

we code malware in c hashtag

Today the United States government recommended to the courts that Conor Fitzpatrick, the previous administrator of BreachedForum, receive 15 years in prison.

Every now and then we get emails or DMs asking for help removing malware...

Who do you think we are 😂😂

We're happy to announce that John Hammond is now a monthly sponsor to vx-underground with his company Hammond LLC.

Thank you so much for becoming a sponsor 🙏

Trust no one

cyber crime is out of control

is this ransomwhere

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We caught up on most of our work.

But, 2 staff members are sick and the others responsible for additions are getting ass blasted by their employer.

Computer jobs are dumb

Palo Alto Unit42 is currently seeking an intern. We agreed to share that on the condition money was given for pizza. Unironically, money was indeed sent for pizza.

Anyway, here's the intern stuff if you're interested

https://app.ripplematch.com/v2/public/job/791cfa0c/details

Today we spoke with individuals from the US Eastern District Court of Virginia. We requested information from the Clerks office on the official sentencing of Mr. Conor Fitzpatrick, the previous administrator of BreachedForum.

He was sentenced to 20 years supervised release

He will not be going to prison. That is a profoundly kind sentence from the Honorable Judge Brinkema.

More details will be present on PACER on Monday, or Tuesday, when the Court Deputy enters the information into their system

We've updated the vx-underground MacOS VX paper collection.

This is a pretty rare update, due partially to scarcity of resources, partially to our ignorance.

Have a nice day.

https://vx-underground.org/Papers/Other/MacOS%20VX

IoT botnet

A while back, we had one of our backend devs work on the frontend. This is as far as they got

Update: used it to buy Qdoba. Ate like royalty

We're in the process of uploading an additional 20,000 new malware samples to vx-underground and the VXDB.

Thank you to our friends at virussign for giving us the hook up 🙏