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?"

Shoutout to all the friends and colleagues in Brazil. It sucks Twitter is blocking Brazil. We love you all and welcome you to our Telegram area. Telegram is cool and badass.

Ignore the advertisements from Threat Actors on the channel (they advertise here a lot)

Good morning from Ameriburger.

To continue using our e-mail we need to kindly send our password to our ... web administrator.

Kindly

Unrelated to this phishing e-mail — we're still receiving e-mails from compromised government e-mails saying things like "smelly is stinky". It's been months since we publicly meme'd about that and it's still going on 😭

In August we ingested over 1,000,000 malware samples. September our estimated malware ingestion figures will be closer to 18,000,000 samples.

By December we will likely pass 100,000,000 malware samples — making us the largest free public malware repo by a significant margin