DEFCON drama continuing as NotBaldEagle shared an additional DEFCON32 badge easter egg.

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Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, died yesterday from Lung Cancer at 56.

Cool Windows 11 easter egg!

> Get file hash: 2aef1134cb696c922a06b71d58058d44e804391ff44cc5cd54335a1438fba58e
> Run as admin
> Your file extensions will change

Very cool easter egg!

This is a joke. This is a REvil ransomware payload. Don't seek out this file hash and intentionally detonate it on your box as admin.

Good morning,

It appears there is yet another person attempting to impersonate me. The easiest way to verify an administrator of vx-underground is request an addition of something to vx-underground.org/tmp – all administrators have access to this backend location.

Additionally, anime is cool and badass.

Thanks,

Today Politico announced that Donald J. Trump's political campaign has been 'hacked'.

Earlier this morning representatives from Trump's political campaign confirmed to Politico that their internal documents have been compromised (and exfiltrated).

The tl;dr is that Trump's team was a victim of suspected Iranian state-sponsored Threat Actors with the intent of interfering with the United States 2024 Presidential Election. They successfully compromised Trump campaign staffers by performing a spear phish.

You can read more information on the spear-phish, the geopolitical implications, Microsoft's input, lore, and document details here:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/10/trump-campaign-hack-00173503

tl;dr tl;dr don't need 0days and 1337 hacks to pop big targets. just need an e-mail address and smooth talking

Important notice:

It's time to settle the debate. 'VXUG' is pronounced like [vee-ex-UGH] – the 'UG' portion is pronounced like 'THUG'. If anyone pronounces it like they're spelling it out i.e. [vee-ex-uu-gee] please monkey bonk them.

Thanks,

We made the crappy website so we get to decide to crappy pronunciation of the acronym >:(

Pardon the french – but what the fuck is this shit? We got community noted on our Windows 11 Easter Egg post where the 'easter egg' is detonating a REvil payload.

1. The community note is written in broken English
2. No normie is going to be able to find that specific file hash

We did a fundraiser to raise money for some additional computer equipment for vx-underground. We raised the money in less than 30 minutes.

Thank you everyone for the love and support.

Our malware collection is growing too fast. It is beginning to become expensive — the cost could easily exceed $1,000/month (expensive for us).

We may have to slow down our malware collection operations.

The COM is (once again) receiving worldwide attention from media outlets, law enforcement agencies, and cyber threat intelligence agencies.

The full segment includes individuals from the FBI and NSA.

Note: this is a CBS 60 Minutes episode that they're re-airing

Linus Tech Tips has been compromised (again). This is the 3rd time they've been compromised.

Also, Voronezh, Russia is where the FBI states the Lockbit ransomware group administration resides.

🤯🤯🤯was it Lockbit?! (probably not, no).

We're migrating to a new host. Uploads to vx-underground are currently suspended. Expect intermittent down time.

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Telegram is offering us $835.01 from ad revenue from our Telegram channel with 37,459 subscribers.

A majority of the advertisements on our channel is from Threat Actors advertising their crypto-drainers or information stealers.

tl;dr crime pays

No, we don't get to decide who advertises on our Telegram channel. Telegram automagically decided a good-portion of our Telegram subscriber base is (probably) criminals.

Administrative Update:

tl;dr lots of data, need stuff

1. We have finished migrating vx-underground to our new servers. We believe our new host is better, cheaper, blah blah blah. If you encounter any issues with the website please notify us.

2. Thank you to the individuals who helped us with our first fundraiser. We are using the equipment to bring in an in-house graphic design artist. This money went toward the necessary equipment, subnoscription services, etc for artist nerds. Ideally, we can produce more high quality artwork, merch, memes, whatever – without reliance on 3rd party entities or crappy AI artwork.

3. We will be doing another fundraiser. We need to purchase more hardware (literally a new supped up computer) just to assist in the processing of malware. We're currently ingesting 25,000+- malware samples per day, however we hope to dramatically increase this number. This is approx. 500GB of malware a month.

4. Black Mass Vol. III is still in work. We've hired an artist who did the artwork for American heavy metal band Slipknot to do the cover. We've also got a handful of super cool papers in this issue.

5. We have a massive, an absolutely colossal, amount of papers in queue to add. Before doing these papers we need to get the samples out-of-the-way. Or not, don't know yet. We're swamped.

It's a surreal feeling seeing this crappy website, with nothing but malware papers, malware source code, and malware samples, distributing as much as 500TB of data per month. Our server bills have gone up by quite a bit – but your donations, sponsorships, and (unironically) Twitter engagements allow us to make money and keep moving forward.

Love you ❤️

More details have emerged regarding the Linus Tech Tips compromise.

We'll save you the lore, drama, backstory, and anime filler.

He was phished. That's all.