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

We will gladly assist in distributing this large malware collection to reseachers, universities, and (sigh..) cybersecurity companies.

We rely on your donations to survive. We'll go back to shitposting soon.

Cheers,

Skip this post if you don't feel like getting irritated and/or frustrated and/or angry.

July 18th, 2024 Columbus, Ohio was a victim of Rhysida ransomware group — a group believed to be related to the now 'forked' and defunct Conti ransomware group.

August 8th, 2024 Rhysida ransomware group began slowly releasing the 6TB of exfiltrated Columbus, Ohio government data onto their Tor domain. As time progressed, it was evident the city of Columbus, Ohio were unlikely to pay the $1,600,000 Rhysida ransomware group wanted.

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther stated to local media outlets that Rhysida has unsuccessfully exfiltrated data and they successfully stopped the attack. Subsequently, a cybersecurity researcher operating under the moniker 'Connor Goodwolf', refuted the mayors statements — essentially acting as a whistleblower.

Connor Goodwolf spoke with Columbus, Ohio media outlets regarding the Rhysida ransomware group attack, proving Rhysida has not only successfully compromised the local government, but also exfiltrated sensitive information on residents of Columbus, Ohio. This information included social security numbers of police officers, people who are victims of domestic violence, etc.

Mayor Andrew Ginther decided to have the City of Columbus, Ohio sue Connor Goodwolf. Additionally, the city is seeking a restraining order against Goodwolf, making it a crime to disclose more information on the Rhysida breach, and requesting a permanent injunction against Connor Goodwolf. The lawsuit against Connor Goodwolf states Mr. Goodwolf places the community in danger stating he is spreading stolen data which is illegal. The lawsuit continues to say 'nobody' had access to the exfiltrated Rhysida ransomware group data because it was published in a manner where access was difficult to achieve.

tl;dr columbis ohio city attorney Zach Klein and mayor Andrew Ginther are idiots, so stupid its embarassing and painful to even read about

Compressing 1m malware samples 🙏

Xitter is now banned in Brazil due to X refusing to take action on content which Brazil deemed illegal.

Following the ban, Justice Alexandre de Moraes imposed a fine of R$50,000 (Approx. $9,000) per day for any person accessing Xitter illegally (such as using a VPN).

We've changed our mind.

We will no longer be keeping all the malware junk we ingest. We will trim the fat and keep only quality malware. Instead of 18,000,000 samples a month, we'll likely bring in approx. 3,000,000 a month.

This breaks our hearts, but it's too much junk :(