Bonus: your homie hits you up on AIM, or Yahoo, or MSN, and tells you about how excited they are for Tony Hawk's Underground

POV: You just joined a Telegram chatroom and you haven't even typed a single word yet

Join the club. We also have no idea what the fuck we're doing.

Today the United States, the Russian Federation, and Germany did a prisoner swap.

Most notably:

Roman Seleznev a/k/a Track2, is being returned to the Russian Federation. Seleznev was a prominent member of carder-dot-su. Seleznev developed automated systems for systemic identity theft and credit card fraud. He is estimated to have stolen over $50,000,000

Vladislav Klyushin, is being returned to the Russian Federation. Klyushin was a notorious hack-to-trade fraudster. He and his group compromised organizations to get perform pseudo-insider-trading which resulted in profits over $93,000,000.

Videos released today via the Kremlin shows President Vladimir Putin greeting prisoners as they set foot on Russian soil once again. Here is the clip of Roman Seleznev shaking hands with Vladimir Putin.

RansomHub ransomware group claims to have ransomed text/html; charset=utf-8

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It's either that or our parser is broken 🤔

Exciting news.

1. Thanks to JaffaCakes118 and Neiki we are now collecting roughly 20,000 unique malware samples a day. Some days we break 30,000 samples. Thanks to them, petikvx, and virussign we are now ingesting over 1,000,000 samples a month. Yay!

2. This is actually pretty expensive. Ingesting, compressing, archiving, and distributing this much malware, on top of the normal traffic vx-underground receives, brings our current monthly web traffic average to 270TB – or 3.24PB of web traffic a year. Thank you to our friends at Cloudflare who have helped us so much with this traffic load.

3. Thank you to everyone who donates and sponsors us. This isn't an easy task while charging $0.00. Thank you to our largest financial contributor, Malcoreio and our largest monthly donor, TorGuard. A special thanks to our largest individual donor HackingDave.

Earlier today, around 9 hours ago as of this writing, Convergence (some crypto shit, we honestly have no idea what it is) confirmed a compromise – alerting it's userbase. PeckShield noted the discovery of a bug in their CvxRewardDistributor contract, which resulted in the theft of roughly $210,000.

Subsequently, 6 hours ago Starknet announced their Discord was compromised and sending users crypto-drainer links.

What does this mean? We have no idea. We don't do crypto stuff. We let ZachXBT handle that kind of work. We do however know nerds are screaming at us about it, so that means we have to mention it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bringing in 500GB+ of malware a month on a budget of a Red Bull and a slice of pizza

This Xitter profile AI roast thing is supposed to roast you. This thing didn't even roast us – it just spoke the truth for a few sentences.

This morning we learned we are infamous.

define: infamous
"well known for some bad quality or deed. wicked; abominable."

Cool 😎

We're happy to announce a new category for malware samples. The malware ingestion category!

The malware ingestion category is samples submitted to us from individuals. It's roughly 25,000+ new malware samples a day.

Yay!
https://vx-underground.org/Samples/MalwareIngestion

It adds up to an additional 948Gb+ A MONTH in storage. Hopefully compression saves us a little on storage.

(please give us money, dear god)

A bunch of SIM swappers were arrested today in Canada. Some are now on the run. Currently too sleepy to do a full write-up so read it or research it yourself.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ten-people-arrested-more-100-170910027.html

Legitimate pornography sites are significantly less likely to deliver malware because they want your money. If anything, it'll just blast you with affiliate advertisement scams. You're x10 more likely to get malware from arbitrarily executing random game cheats for Fortnite

We unironically tried to get malware from bootleg pornography sites. We got inundated with phony PC support call center scams, but we got tons of malware from game cheats linked on YouTube.

> Fortnite Cheats 2024 [Working]
> MediaFire download link in bio
> Cheats.exe
> Redline

"I like Elephants and God likes Elephants" — Terry A. Davis on 16bit Elephant artwork on TempleOS

The malware ABC's

A is for Advanced Persistent Threat
B is for Botnet
C is for Command & Control
D is for Dridex
E is for Emotet
F is for FinSpy
G is for GandCrab
H is for HermeticWiper
I is for Industroyer
J is for JIT
K is for Kobalos
L is for Lockbit
M is for MyDoom
N is for NetWalker
O is for Obfuscation
P is for Pegasus
Q is for QakBot
R is for Redline
S is for Sandworm
T is for Trickbot
U is for Undetected
V is for VX
W is for WannaCry
X is for XMRig
Y is for You (for detonating the payload)
Z is for Zeus

We're giving away 2 entry badges to DEFCON on Twitter. We only have two. We're selecting winners tonight because the clock is ticking.

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1819892171597644102