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

Current projects:

- Papers will be listed with an associated date of release (see attached image below)
- Continue archiving "The Old New Thing"
- Work on syncing data with HatchingTriage and HybridAnalysis
- Give more people access to our Malware Database

People new to Information Security will put literally anything on their LinkedIn to get more credibility

We've made some small updates the vx-underground Malware Source Code repository on GitHub

- Win32.SkypeSpam
- Win32.FakeEmulator
- Domain.Solaris.DarkWebForum

https://github.com/vxunderground/MalwareSourceCode

Recently an incredibly large Information Security company contacted vx-underground about sponsoring us.

As you can see from the attached image below - we are the pinnacle of professionalism.

We have closed the Telegram chatroom. Too many people argued, evaded the rules, or continued to express racist ideologies. We do not have the time or resources to moderate a chatroom closely.

tl;dr you nerds couldn't behave and now it is closed.

Have a nice day.

Grand Theft Auto V has been assigned CVE-2023-24059 for containing a partial Remote Code Execution exploit

More information: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-24059

Grand Theft Auto Online community discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/10hsosu/mass_reporting_the_dangerous_pc_exploit/

Due to the absurd volume of people DMing me - we have re-opened the chatroom. We are in search of moderators who will actively monitor chatroom and nuke nerds who disobey the rules.

Here, have your dumb chatroom back, please stop asking us about it: https://t.iss.one/+80U_oTH2thk3ZDYx

APT groups do not need to commit espionage to monitor foreign military threats. All that is required is making a WarThunder forum account

January 18th: Microsoft announces 10,000 employees will be terminated

January 23rd: Microsoft to invest $10,000,000,000 into ChatGPT

Yesterday someone claimed to have successfully breached vx-underground.

They sent us footage of the attack. We have no idea what is going on in this footage.

Video link: https://streamable.com/6nnhd3

As more and more people discuss malicious Google ads we have decided to produce a small video illustrating how malvertising campaigns deploy malware to steal user data

We've updated the vx-underground "InTheWild" collection. We have added volumes 0030 - 0034. It is 100,000 new and unique malicious binaries.

Special thanks to petikvx and our mystery donor for the samples.

Check it out here: https://samples.vx-underground.org/samples/Blocks/