No, we won't be at DEFCON. Core staff members are malware monks that don't go outside.

Sunday is our 5 year anniversary. We we be celebrating 5 years of disorganization, typos, accidental misinformation, and being labeled criminals over 9000 times.

Sunday we will be giving away 30+- vx-underground 5 year anniversary shirts. It will be $1,000 worth of merch all sponsored by our friends at TorGuard.

Additionally, we will be giving away 1 vx-underground harddrive, this drive contains everything on the vx-underground site — roughly 13TB of malware material (although it is compressed to just over 5TB). It is password protected. If you ask for the password you WILL be monkey bonked. This drive is possible due to an individual not correctly reading emails and people banding together to make sure we don't lose any money. In summary, this giveaway is sponsored by YOU :)))

If you're not interested in participating in the giveaway you can also buy the shirt. It will be available on our merch store starting this weekend too. It will ship everywhere except North Korea, Russia, and whatever else is sanctioned by the United States government.

If you're in Russia and want to buy a shirt, have your friends in the UAE buy a shirt and have them send it to you.

If you're in North Korea and want to buy a shirt, please just try to escape the country instead.

Thank you everyone for the love and support over the past 5 years. We are looking forward to Sunday. It's going to be an exciting day.

Love you 😘

We will be celebrating*, right off the rip we fuck it up.

You cringe you lose

We've updated the vx-underground malware families collection

- StealC
- RisePro
- RaspberryRobin
- Android.Vultur
- QuasarRAT
- DarkGateLoader
- DinodasRAT
- NokoyawaRansomware
- Latrodectus
- IcedId
- InstatWiper
- Gafgyt
- CobaltStrike
- Glupteba
- DoNexRansomware
- AsyncRAT

We're giving away free stuff on Twitter because we turn 5 tomorrow. Go over to Twitter if you want to try to win free stuff.

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1791819677460496465

Dear DEFCON DDV nerds,

Please contact us.

Thanks,

(Initially we said we'd send the data to them, but being of extremely high IQ, we didn't realize uploading remotely from a local copy would take way too long.)

Ali Diamond, the lady from Hak5, bought a vx-underground harddrive... and then got photos taken as if it were a baby? She paid for a professional photoshoot and named it Diva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIpOeHFYZrM

Thank you to our friends in Ukraine for the lovely picture. The gang signs makes it extra cool.

We are now officially 5 years old everywhere on the planet.

Except Anchorage, Alaska but we're not staying up any longer. We're old and it's way past our bed time.

We'll start selecting winners of free stuff later today.

Cheers.

We are experiencing some technical difficulties with our giveaway. Twitter is having a difficult time loading all of the comments people left. We are only able to see approx. 300 replies out of 2,500+

If you have any suggestions please let us know.

Thanks,

Okay, we get it. We've received enough emails. We PROMISE we will enable comments this week. You can stop emailing us now.

We are still having problems with our vx-underground 5 year Twitter giveaway. We have tried a few different methods. Currently we are only able to view approx. 800+- comments.

Tomorrow our Chief Executive Nerd (DuchyRE) and his faithful side kick (Monster Energy Drink) will be assigned to the case. Additionally, we have enlisted the help of Breach forum nerds who are exceptionally skilled at scraping. If anyone get the comments, these nerds can

tl;dr Microsoft introduces 24/7 surveillance functionality for the NSA and/or CIA but markets it as a feature that you'll like

https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1792680674060832829

Last week we became acquainted with a server administrator for a 'body mutilation' site.

He assisted a group of individuals with hosting, and maintaining, a site where people were mutilating, severing, smashing, and cannibalizing male genitals. Access to videos required paying money – it was essentially a pay-per-view for watching male individuals be maimed, some were even teenage boys.

The individuals he assisted have since been arrested and sentenced to prison. He was not arrested because despite providing hosting and assistance with the site, he did not actively maim anyone.

We are hoping to interview him and get his perspective on things. No idea if he'll agree to an interview, but it's exciting.