At the end of the day every alert looks like this to a SOC Analyst

No idea what this even means, we really liked this kitty and just tried to make something work

Lots of updates coming on Monday.

Also, people have begun receiving their giveaway swag. We still have more people to select, but giving away $1,000 worth of merch is actually kind of time consuming.

Anyway, someone said their cat now uses the shirt for naps

Today Donald Trump, former United States President who is seeking re-election, stated he vows to commute the sentence of former SilkRoad founder Ross Ulbricht

More information: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/26/trump-pledges-to-free-silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-if-re-elected/

Google AI being 💯💯💯

Good morning.

Today is the day of rest. We hope all of you have enjoyed your weekend thus far. We will see you all on Monday.

Love you

It's time for your quarterly, and mandatory, continual education video from your HR department.

You sit down, play the video, and this what you learn about data backups:

Someone reported one of our posts as ??? to Xitter which resulted in us receiving this e-mail this morning.

Presumably, our Google AI meme/mock post was reported as imagery which promotes self-harm.

Anyone who is capable of exercising any sort of critical thinking skills is capable of understanding the information displayed from the Google AI is innately false. It does not reflect an intelligent, informed, or well-minded advice to any individual having thoughts of self-harm or thoughts of harm toward others.

If you do not find humor in the absurdity of botched AI learning, while AI continues to be hailed as an omnipotent technology which will solve all problems, displaying wildly inappropriate and inaccurate information funny then ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not that big of a deal, dawg. If you're genuinely unhappy with it, unfollow us or something, we're just vibin' out trying to find humor in the everyday technological chaos.

This took like 10 minutes is ms-paint. This better get 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 likes (2^64 - 1)

Someone found a Facebook post from 2006.

In 2006 this setup was insane.

They've also got an N64, the CRT monitor on the floor, and the CD collection rack. This guy was ballin' out

Torrents:
- vxunderground.HD.Samples.VirusSign.Collection
- vxunderground.HD.Samples.Twitter.IOC.Collection
- vxunderground.HD.Samples.Families
- vxunderground.HD.Samples.Bazaar.Collection
- vxunderground.HD.Samples.ATM.Malware
- vxunderground.HD.Samples.Argus.Collection
- vxunderground.HD.Papers

Samples:
- VirusSign.2024.05.23
- VirusSign.2024.05.24
- VirusSign.2024.05.25
- VirusSign.2024.05.26
- VirusSign.2024.05.27
- InTheWild.0124

Papers:
- 2023-09-21 - Secrets of commercial RATs! NanoCore dissected
- 2023-11-13 - Decrypting the Mystery of MedusaLocker
- 2023-11-26 - From Infection to Encryption- Tracing the Impact of RYUK Ransomware
- 2024-05-07 - Cybercrime's Anatomy Threats to the Healthcare World
- 2024-04-24 - Dissecting REMCOS RAT: An in-depth analysis of a widespread 2024 malware

In the past couple of days we have received nearly 100 of these types of messages.

When we click the link is just directs us to YouTube. What the hell kind of spam campaign doesn't even deliver malware 😭

Strap yourself in because it's time for this weeks episode of "Microsoft being dedicated to security".

tl;dr wtf bro lol

Previously Microsoft unveiled 'Recall' – which will be deployed on Windows 11. Recall will take screenshots of your computer desktop, in unspecified intervals, and allow users to search through Recall data (aka your Desktop screenshots) using AI to allow users to ... find things they may have forgotten (???).

When Recall was announced numerous security researchers, cybersecurity firms, and privacy advocates called it a nightmare because Microsoft explicitly stated that Recall will make no attempt to perform content moderation. It will take screenshots of plain text passwords, financial data, etc. Users also expressed concerns over Recall recording sexual fetishes (i.e. them watching pornography) and called it a gross invasion of privacy.

Microsoft's retort was that Recall can be disabled in settings and Microsoft does not have access to any of the data. It is all stored locally. Researchers then questioned whether or not end users, who may not be as tech savvy, would even understand or know Recall is present and may not be able to disable it.

Microsoft also stated today to the BBC that because Recall is stored locally, the only way a Threat Actor would be able to access Recall data is if they have physical access to the machine, unlocked it, and then signed in.

This did little to persuade security researchers because, if the data is stored locally, they expressed concern of the possibility of Recall data being harvested by infostealer malware (e.g. Redline, FormBook, Rhad, etc.) or the data being exfiltrated in the event of a ransomware attack. Furthermore, if Recall is deployed on Enterprise environments, this may make Recall an even larger security risk due to the lack of content moderation (i.e. exposing crown jewels).

With Recall present, and if data can be imported or exported, it could essentially allow Threat Groups the ability to visually inspect and review victims machines using AI search.

Will researchers find a way to abuse Recall? Will Threat Actors find a way to abuse Recall? Will there be 'for educational uses only' proof-of-concepts on GitHub? Find out on the next episode of Dragon Ball Z

May 22nd security research GossiTheDog was able to get Microsoft Recall. His wrote a long thread on Mastodon regarding it. The full thread is linked at the bottom of this if you're interested in the photos he shared.

tl;dr highlights:
- Enabled by default and globally in Microsoft Intune managed users for businesses
- Disabling recording of websites in Control Panel or GPO is still ... enabled (???), disabling recording of websites only stops recording in Microsoft Edge (???)
- Recall uses Core AI Platform service
- Screenshots are titled "Snapshots"
- Images are stored in APPDATA directory, administrative privileges not required to access storage
- Processed data stored in SQLite database, can be viewed programmatically

More information: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112479974357074203

Updates to vx-underground:

- 2024-03-13 - RisePro stealer targets Github users in “gitgub” campaign
- 2024-04-09 - Havoc C2 Framework – A Defensive Operator’s Guide
- 2024-04-24 - Pakistani APTs Escalate Attacks on Indian Gov. Seqrite Labs Unveils Threats and Connections
- 2024-05-01 - Ransom-War: Russian Extortion Operations as Hybrid Warfare, Part One
- 2024-05-02 - Dissecting LOCKBIT v3 ransomware
- 2024-05-04 - 191 Australian Organizations affected by ZircoDATA Breach Linked to Russian Ransomware Gang
- 2024-05-06 - Agent Tesla Malware Analysis
- 2024-05-09 - Case Study: Latrodectus - Analyzing and Implementing String Decryption Algorithms
- 2024-05-10 - AA24-131A: Stop Ransomware: Black Basta
- 2024-05-10 - Dissecting REMCOS RAT: An in-depth analysis of a widespread 2024 malware Part IV

From the United States Department of Justice:

911 S5 Botnet Dismantled and Its Administrator Arrested in Coordinated International Operation

Botnet Infected Over 19M IP Addresses to Enable Billions of Dollars in Pandemic and Unemployment Fraud, and Access to Child Exploitation Materials

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/911-s5-botnet-dismantled-and-its-administrator-arrested-coordinated-international-operation