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No, this isn't a joke. This all happened on a whim from a meme.

"Kros", Jim, and Ron,

Thank you for covering our asses. Please DM us. You all slightly gave us more than the lost $500 so we'll give you free swag, or something, whatever is clever.

Thanks,

P.S. Jim the homie, he doesn't even know what we do and he gave us money 😭😭😭

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Today a person operating under the moniker 'Bizarredect' compromised a North Korean ISP and dumped 31GB of North Korean data

https://gofile.io/d/nLSE4n

Us trying to review the stolen North Korean data

Today Facebook users noticed a botched modification to the Facebook recommendation algorithm. Users are reporting their feeds are being flooded with "Happy Birthday" posts ... from people and to people they don't know.

tl;dr Facebook is now "Happy Birthday" and advertisements

This actually isn't the first time this has happened from Facebook. Last time this happened it was users commenting on celebrity profiles.

The issue was resolved within a few hours.

Anyway, Happy Birthday!

Why is 0xTib3rius disrespecting us

Big brain time.

Daniel Rhyne was employed as a core infrastructure engineer for an unnamed company. He intentionally changed domain controller credentials in an attempt to extort his employer out of $750,000.

He's now facing 30 years in prison.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/employee-arrested-for-locking-windows-admins-out-of-254-servers-in-extortion-plot/

Our memory is a little fuzzy, but we can't recall a time where someone used ... the windows command line interface ... to change creds to "TheFr0zenCrew!" then asking for $750,000.

It's unfathomably galaxy brain — a truly epic gamer moment.

Starting September vx-underground will charge $100 for every 100 Yottabytes of data used on the website.

We apologize for the inconvenience

We missed our own 5 year Twitter birthday.

Yay! We're 5 (on Twitter!)

Yesterday, or whenever, DICK's Sporting Goods, an American store that sells sports stuff, filed an SEC 8K. Based on reports – sounds like they've been hit by ransomware

We've never seen such a mute public response to a large ransomware attack. Literally no one seemed to care 😭

Our recent poll shows that somewhere between 25% - 35% of our follower base (72,000 people+-) have absolutely no idea what we do.

They only follow us for the memes and news.

tl;dr we collect all materials malware related for researchers, gossip with cyber criminals, and meme

To appease our tech-adjacent audience that seems to enjoy our borderline neurotic computer posts: here is a photo of us removing some RAM sticks (we couldn't get them back in the computer)

Security research iangcarroll discovered a way to bypass airport security by performing SQL injection into a database with crew members.

The United States Department of Homeland Security hasn't followed up with them regarding it.

Paper: https://ian.sh/tsa

stuff wouldnt fit in case so we had to improvise

"most your malware collection is hash busted and polymorphic junk, why do you keep it?"