Our advice to people who are new to computer stuff

1. Don't take yourself too seriously, have fun with what you're doing and enjoy mistakes and set backs

2. If you don't enjoy something, don't force yourself to do it

3. It's not a race - take your time.

We're almost caught up on our work. Here is our current queue:

- 12,000 new malware samples
- Harddrive pre-orders mail next week
- Tons of new papers on malware analysis
- New batch of harddrives have arrived (finally...)
- Some new malware source code leaks
- More papers

AI is revolutionizing the world

The McFlurry Bandit strikes again, compromising McDonalds and censors information using photos of kittys.

We've added 18,000 new malware samples to vx-underground - they're being synced with the VXDB as this is being typed.

Thank you to our friends over at VirusSign who are hooking us up with 3,200+ new malware samples a day 🙏

Oh, duh, the download link is here: https://vx-underground.org/Samples/VirusSign%20Collection

We just uploaded 114 new malware analysis papers to vx-underground, courtesy of our friends over at malpedia

We've updated the vx-underground malware source code repository on GitHub.

- Win32.qBitStealer
- Android.Octo

*Files via 3xp0rtblog and pancak3lullz
*Octo is the Android Octo Banking Trojan

https://github.com/vxunderground/MalwareSourceCode

We've updated the malware family collection

- AtlasAgent
- BumbleBeeLoader
- ChargeWeapon
- DangerAds
- DBatLoader
- DinodasRAT
- DreamLand
- EasyStealer
- GOLDBACKDOORDropper
- HyperBro
- RevengeRAT
- RhadamanthysLoader
- ShadowPad
- Stealc
- WannaCry

https://vx-underground.org/Samples/Families

January 18th - Yaroslav Vasinskyi, responsible for the REvil Kaseya supply chain attack, will be sentenced. He has plead guilty

January 19th - Conor Fitzpatrick, ex-administrator of the infamous BreachedForum, will be sentenced. He has plead guilty

2 massive cases next week

Really exciting news coming this week!

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Thank you to our friend Laurie Wired for the wonderful gift. Our main issue though is it's 2024, we don't have anything for floppies

Ignore the weird looking dog in the background

Earlier this morning we posted that YouTube is intentionally worsening the performance of individuals using ad blockers. This has been reported by various media outlets. We have concluded this is incorrectly being reported.

gorhill, the current primary developer of uBlock, has investigated the issue extensively and believes to have identified the primary cause of the performance issues AdBlock users face, why it impacts them, and why it does not impact uBlock users.

tl;dr buggy code dating back to 2014, issue impacts more than just YouTube

You can read the full thread here: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919

This is very scary:(

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Today the United States government recommended to the courts that Conor Fitzpatrick, the previous administrator of BreachedForum, receive 15 years in prison.

Every now and then we get emails or DMs asking for help removing malware...

Who do you think we are 😂😂

We're happy to announce that John Hammond is now a monthly sponsor to vx-underground with his company Hammond LLC.

Thank you so much for becoming a sponsor 🙏