Full article (paywalled): https://fortune.com/2024/07/27/ferrari-deepfake-attempt-scammer-security-question-ceo-benedetto-vigna-cybersecurity-ai/

vx-underground Roulette:

A binary which generates a random number using a seed you provide. If an even number is generated, you win. If an odd number is generated, a random binary payload off the VXDB is detonated on your machine.

Zscaler's ThreatLabz 2024 ransomware report shows confirmation of DarkAngels ransomware receiving the largest ransomware payment in history: $75,000,000

To put that into perspective: someone could buy 524 2024 Mercedes-Benz G Wagons with this money

or buy 6,000,000,000 Robux...

We had to convert USD and real-world value things into Robux because some of our younger audience members don't seem to comprehend the vastness of this stolen money.

They do however seem to understand Robux because that's the only exposure they've ever had to economics.

We gotta start making more money some how because we're about to be sharing so many samples daily it'll literally cripple us financially 😂😂😂

"I've just gotta lock in", says IT professional on verge of suicide

We are happy to announce that finally, after harddrive purchasers waiting 4.5 months, we have received all of the harddrives from the manufacturer.

Moving forward we're going to completely redo how we handle shipping goods because 4.5 months is ridiculous.

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Which cat poses the biggest security threat to your organization?

POV: It's 2003, you're in your bedroom, you just limewire'd some totally cool new music, you're working on your xanga profile, and disrespecting people registering on myspace

Bonus: your homie hits you up on AIM, or Yahoo, or MSN, and tells you about how excited they are for Tony Hawk's Underground

POV: You just joined a Telegram chatroom and you haven't even typed a single word yet

Join the club. We also have no idea what the fuck we're doing.

Today the United States, the Russian Federation, and Germany did a prisoner swap.

Most notably:

Roman Seleznev a/k/a Track2, is being returned to the Russian Federation. Seleznev was a prominent member of carder-dot-su. Seleznev developed automated systems for systemic identity theft and credit card fraud. He is estimated to have stolen over $50,000,000

Vladislav Klyushin, is being returned to the Russian Federation. Klyushin was a notorious hack-to-trade fraudster. He and his group compromised organizations to get perform pseudo-insider-trading which resulted in profits over $93,000,000.

Videos released today via the Kremlin shows President Vladimir Putin greeting prisoners as they set foot on Russian soil once again. Here is the clip of Roman Seleznev shaking hands with Vladimir Putin.

RansomHub ransomware group claims to have ransomed text/html; charset=utf-8

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It's either that or our parser is broken 🤔

Exciting news.

1. Thanks to JaffaCakes118 and Neiki we are now collecting roughly 20,000 unique malware samples a day. Some days we break 30,000 samples. Thanks to them, petikvx, and virussign we are now ingesting over 1,000,000 samples a month. Yay!

2. This is actually pretty expensive. Ingesting, compressing, archiving, and distributing this much malware, on top of the normal traffic vx-underground receives, brings our current monthly web traffic average to 270TB – or 3.24PB of web traffic a year. Thank you to our friends at Cloudflare who have helped us so much with this traffic load.

3. Thank you to everyone who donates and sponsors us. This isn't an easy task while charging $0.00. Thank you to our largest financial contributor, Malcoreio and our largest monthly donor, TorGuard. A special thanks to our largest individual donor HackingDave.

Earlier today, around 9 hours ago as of this writing, Convergence (some crypto shit, we honestly have no idea what it is) confirmed a compromise – alerting it's userbase. PeckShield noted the discovery of a bug in their CvxRewardDistributor contract, which resulted in the theft of roughly $210,000.

Subsequently, 6 hours ago Starknet announced their Discord was compromised and sending users crypto-drainer links.

What does this mean? We have no idea. We don't do crypto stuff. We let ZachXBT handle that kind of work. We do however know nerds are screaming at us about it, so that means we have to mention it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bringing in 500GB+ of malware a month on a budget of a Red Bull and a slice of pizza

This Xitter profile AI roast thing is supposed to roast you. This thing didn't even roast us – it just spoke the truth for a few sentences.