> go online
> see internet archive defaced
> comment on the ddos / compromise
> give more information in follow up post
> non-nerds find post
> blame us

Thank you to everyone for the kind words and for defending us.

Truthfully, we aren't upset by these remarks. The post was made in our typical fashion and was directed toward our target audience. Whenever something we post escapes the information security ecosystem, information tends to bend and warp. It isn't surprising non-technical people who are unfamiliar with our work would misconstrue our commentary.

Some people who made the hateful remarks have apologized, others continued to criticize us saying our post was intentionally (or unintentionally) misleading. We personally did not believe this is something which could mislead people as we were directly quoting the wording in the compromise. However, it is evident we were painfully wrong.

We are sure things will calm down soon. The internet moves very fast and people outside the information security ecosystem will drift back into their circles of interest.

There is also a joke to be made somewhere regarding the hateful comments directed toward us on October 10th, World Mental Health Day, probably. We'll let someone more creative than us make the memes.

Anyway, back to work.

Have a nice day

Thank you, it's appreciated.

(no idea what this means, or why they blocked us after the message)

Unfortunately, as we grow in size we continue to see less tech-savy individuals who do not understand the malware nomenclature.

Moving forward we will make translations.

Translation:

Sad we getting big but dumb mfers come here mad as hell and now we gotta use littler words

Apologies — we failed to use a comma and we fear our translation may be misleading to some.

Translation:

my bad lol i forgot the , in the sentence, i dont want mfers thinkin we sad that we blowin up lol, fr we blessed

Not a big deal, the disk is okay and we still got ((2,147,483,648 * 3) - 17,216) good sectors left.

There is literally no reason why we should possess 30,335,219 malwares (growing as this is being written).

This 'collecting' thing is getting out-of-hand.

Seriously? What the hell are we going to do with it? We don't analyze it (we do sync it with some vendors), we only reverse maybe 0.00000001% of the samples.

What the hell are we doing? Why hasn't someone said something? We literally just have terabytes of malware hangin' around

Good morning,

- We've got a bunch of papers in queue, no idea when we'll push them to prod
- Estimated daily malware ingestion is 450,000 samples
- Winners for the swag giveaway will be selected throughout the weekend. We wanted to let people continue posting critters

Thanks,

333,100 followers and we're getting BIG money from it on social media. Don't even try to talk to us unless you've got stacks like us.

Our social media stats from the past 28 days

tl;dr 8m - 16m impressions == $109

We've made a ground breaking discovery.

When regular internet dweebs learned the Internet Archive got defaced they were under the impression that someone deleted over 100PB's of data within the time span it takes to click refresh on their web browser.

The panic and terror makes much more sense now.

We too would be terrified if someone discovered a way to zero-fill 100PB of data (without detonating an incendiary device) across a data warehouse in the blink of an eye, because this is no regular data-wiper payload, this is unironically spooky wizard galaxy brain time magic (only logical explanation).

Pic attached is an image from the Internet Archive. Imagine zero-filling all these computer thingies in .03 seconds.

Good morning, evening, or night.

We still haven't selected winners to the swag giveaway. Relax — you can stop sending us DMs. We'll do it later today, or tomorrow, whatever.

Okay, going back to bed now. Talk to you later.

Love you,

Massive Pokemon leak today.

- Partial Black/White v2 dev builds & source patch files
- Pokemon Bank source code
- Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver source code
- Famicom tech demo from 2004
- Black/White Git
- Platinum full SVN

Nintendo executives right now (they're going to sue everyone into nothingness)

Hello,

tl;dr im sick, be patient, giveaways in december, hdds soon (maybe), vxdb ideas?, be patient (again).

1. I'm still sick. I've been sick for over a week now. My sinus infection is semi-persistent and it's being a total pain in the ass. My health has improved, but I'm not quite 100% recovered yet. I feel like I've got a giant booger in my right nostril that I can't get out. Ugh.

2. We still haven't gotten around to the swag giveaway. It's on my todo list, but I need to sync with the crew to check out the submissions and select a few winners. We haven't found a time in the past week where we're all online at the same time and can really sit and down and review the critter pictures. That's my bad, it's on the todo list.

3. This year, as we did last year, we're going to try to do a bunch of Christmas giveaways. Last December we gave away over $45,000 in educational material. We're trying to make this an annual tradition. Let's see how it goes this year.

4. A ton of people have messaged me about harddrive sales. We've got some that are ready to clone, but I haven't sat down and began. I've been distracted by tons of stuff and cloning the drives can be kind of annoying. I'll probably start cloning drives again in the next couple of weeks.

5. We're trying to find a way to fuse our malware database with vx-underground. We had this idea where people can easy move between virus-exchange and vx-underground and download individual samples way faster. We're not sure how we're going to do it, but it's on the chopping block.

6. Despite the huge boost in hardware, thanks to all the people to helped us with our hardware fundraiser, ingestion 1,000,000+ malware samples a day is really hard and expensive. A more realistic number is closer to 100,000 - 400,000 a day, but even that is challenging unless we get a sudden surge in funding. I'm not sure why I'm so set on collecting all this malware and pushing the crew to continue the malware collection, but it's what's happening.

7. Adding papers can be hard. We try to actively monitor social media for new and cool malware-related research. Usually once we've got a bunch bookmarked somewhere, or saved as a PDF, we double check to see if we already have the paper on vx-underground, we sync it with a local backup and our remote backup, and then push to prod. Finding fresh material and doing all these extra steps is a pain in the ass, especially when we review them and try to classify them as best as possible. Stop bugging us on why we're not adding more papers — we've got like, 60,000 papers and it's not as easy as ctrl-c + ctrl-v. Because of the size of our malware collection, nothing is simple anymore, especially because we try to do everything right the first time.

Thanks for reading. Enjoy your weekend.
- smelly

"smelly why are you always so sick?"

In the spirit of full-disclosure, I've got a kind of, sort of, rare disease-thing. I'm immuno-compromised. The medicine which fixes my disease thingy requires injecting drugs which essentially toggle my immune system offline.

This fixes my disease thing, but it makes me susceptible to illness, and in the event that I do get sick, it takes me much longer to recover from it.

If in the event I don't take injections which toggle my immune system offline, my body is in crippling pain all day, everyday, and it hurts to live because my immune system thinks my body is a giant infection and it tries to kill me.