If you follow GuidedHacking on Twitter you can watch the owner, Rake, slowly descend into lunacy.

We've updated the vx-underground InTheWild collection. We've added volumes 0029, 0030, and 0031. Thsi is 60,000 unique malicious binaries.

Special thanks to petikvx for the hard work and staying on top of sample aggregation for us.

Have a nice day.

https://www.vx-underground.org/malware.html

Earlier today Jon DiMaggio released an article titled: "Ransomware Diaries: Part 1". This article is one of the most comprehensive papers on Lockbit ransomware group we have ever seen.

Our personal 2-extra-cents on the paper: the article states the Lockbit Black source code was leaked - this is incorrect. Additionally, the author cites John Hammond for releasing a tweet on the Lockbit Black leak - although the truth is John Hammond archived a tweet we deleted. The image posted in the article is directly from us - we typically use HasteBin to display text-images.

For those questioning why we deleted the tweet: Lockbit is notorious for chasing individuals down, and is sometimes bloodthirsty. We will spare the details - but we decided it would be best to not involve ourselves in ransomware conflict which directly impacts their operations.

We spoke with LB0, the individual who we believe is the troll of LockbitSupp. vx-underground staff and LB0 spoke - we came to a mutual agreement to not leak the Lockbit Black builder until someone else did (if it did). We did not want drama. We are a library, not a battlestation.

Finally, and in conclusion, Jon DiMaggio's paper is wonderful and spot on. Thank you, Jon, for detailing the history and evolution of this group.

Link: https://analyst1.com/ransomware-diaries-volume-1/

We've updated the vx-underground The Old New Thing archive. We have completed archiving years 2012 and 2011.

We have successfully archived over 10 years of blog posts from Raymond Chen. 7 years are remaining!

Check it out here: https://www.vx-underground.org/the_old_new_thing.html

Shoutout to the person impersonating us on Telegram.

It's a ballsy move trying to scam malware researchers... with your... *checks notes* ... crypto scam?

https://assetssecuritybackup[.]com

Reminder: vx-underground will never individually message all 14,000 people that follow this Telegram account ... because we could just send a post a message to relay "crucial information" on our "chan-nel".

We are happy to announce the latest sponsor to vx-underground: GuidedHacking.

GuidedHacking is a game hacking educational website - they're the individuals who published the "Game Hacking Bible"

GuidedHacking would like to note that they are the best penis enhancement pills.

Yes, they seriously requested we state they have penis enhancement pills

The United States Department of Justice is scheduled to make an announcement at 12PM EST regarding an International Cryptocurrency Enforcement Action

The broadcast will begin in 55 minutes.

https://www.justice.gov/live

Someone sent us an image of their IDE. They said they believed the contrasting colors helped their vision.

The Department of Justice has announced the arrest of Anatoly Legkodymov. Legkodymov, the Founder and Majority Owner of Bitzlato Ltd, is accused of laundering more than $700,000,000 in illicit funds from ransomware groups and Hydra Marketplace

More info: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/founder-and-majority-owner-bitzlato-cryptocurrency-exchange-charged-unlicensed-money

Multiple Threat Intelligence and Anti-virus vendors have noted the rise of the MaaS Rhadamanthys Stealer. Rhadamanthys is noted as trafficking itself through malicious Google ads targeting AnyDesk, Zoom, Bluestacks, Notepad++, OBS, and more.

It also has a hard to remember name

Interview with a Russian ransomware operator arrested in Russia for attacking Western organizations

2023 is going to be a big year for vx-underground. Besides the continual increase in malware samples, source code, and papers, we also intend on publishing 2 (maybe even 3!) books.

Also, as a reminder, we offer free malware database access to students of all ages

We are also discussing changing the website (again) to accommodate it's growth. Pages are too big and have too long of lists. The website will remain as grungy HTML, no flashy BS, WordPress, whatever. We just need to be better organized.

Have a nice day.

T mobile confirms it was breached (again) for the 6th.. or 8th time? Since 2018? We've lost count.

As Threat Actors continue utilizing Google-based malvertising campaigns - vx-underground has decided to step up to the plate and unveil a 1 of a kind solution to stop these nerds. Introducing ... an adblocker!

tl;dr we've done it, we've stopped cyber crime and saved the planet

Threat Actors when they see Google has laid off 12,000 employees, some of which are probably responsible for Google adwords