Threat Actors trying to figure out what kind of piece of shit they're targeting (it's using PowerPC architecture, 256kb of RAM, and 12mb of harddrive storage)

Today Elon Musk announced xAI has acquired X

No idea what that means, but here we are

>check internet
>see rust nerds
>rust nerd says: "rust is faster than pure asm"

mfw rust is its own instruction set now and supersedes the entire x64 architecture and the hardware it was designed to operate on

Had a doctor's appointment today. He asked about some medication I was prescribed from a different physician. He asked how to spell it.

He Googled it and then proceeded to skim the Drugs dot com and Wikipedia article about it

C'mon bro, at least hide it from me or something

Today Microsoft announced Windows 11 will require a Microsoft account to create a local profile on the computer. They will be removing the bypass option available in the installation command prompt.

There will still be workarounds, but they're making it harder

People online are expressing frustration toward VMware. They are deeply unhappy with the recent licensing changes.

Yesterday it was unveiled Aubrey Cottle a/k/a Kirtaner had been arrested by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation in conjunction with the Ontario Provincial Police for the 2021 compromise of the United States Texas Republican Party.

Mr. Cottle is best known within the information security sphere as being a 'founding member' of the "Anonymous" political hacktivist movement in the 2000's.

Mr. Cottle is alleged to be involved in the compromise of Hal Turner (2008) and the Church of Scientology (2008).

Federal documents state Mr. Cottle gained unauthorized access to a 3rd party hosting side for the United States Texas Republican Party. Subsequently, he allegedly exfiltrated data, made is downloadable for others, and defaced the website.

If found guilty Mr. Cottle is facing a maximum of 5 years in prison.

More information: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/united-states-unseals-charges-theft-texas-republican-party-data

plugged the wrong side of usb-c connector into a usb port on my pc. a bright flash happened, my pc turned off. now it smells like burnt plastic lmfao wtf

turned pc back on, works fine, but still smells like burnt plastic

We'll tell you a secret. Not very many people know this.

Most malware development courses and papers cover the same material: process injection, persistence, basic anti-reverse engineering techniques, etc

This doesn't scratch the surface of what malware or malware research is.

Yes, these concepts are innately malicious, but the primary objective of malware is stealth. Everyone knows the techniques described in public facing courses. You think anti-malware companies don't see them?

A BIG part of malware is finding unusual methods to accomplish tasks.

This isn't a diss toward any malware course or book. But, there is some kind of misconception that you can learn everything you need from these courses.

If you wanted to learn everything (malware research from the 80's or 90's up until ... today) the book would look like this:

Someone is (allegedly) leaking 5.23PB of K-Pop data on Discord (?). We don't follow K-Pop, so we can't determine the validity of the data or what it entails. We also do not possess the ability to review 5.23PB of data.

All we can do is watch K-Pop nerds handle it.

Hello, how are you?

We're super, super, super close to finalizing the virus-dot-exchange migration. After working closely with our hosting provider TorGuard, we can confirm our total malware sample count (de-duplicated, clean, confirmed malware) is 15,521,562 — however, we still have another .... 1TB of malware to sync ... so ... guess we'll see how clean we are?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Next up, we have a bunch of APT samples and paper I've gotta throw up on the website. I haven't done it yet, but I will, I promise, eventually, soon, maybe. I'm aiming to do it this week (we're behind hardcore).

Next next up, we've got more builders and stuff from Cryakl. I intend on moving the builders around and making them easier to find.

Next next next up, we've got another 192GB of malware in queue we haven't even added to the site yet.

Big stuff this week.

Hope everyone enjoyed the weekend.

- smelly smellington

I've got a really small brain. Accidentally added a zero (or something, whatever excuse I can make). It's 523TB, not 5.23PB

VXUG 🤝 Misinformation

"I love Microsoft Window's, I just wish it collected MORE of my personal data!" — Nobody, ever

A video was shared online today of a person named "Dave" being violently assaulted for their cryptocurrency. This is a continuing trend of violent crime associated with cryptocurrency.