Donut Leaks ransomware group claims to have accidentally destroyed their internal databases. They're asking victims to re establish contact.

tl;dr pushed to prod on a Friday

BREAKING: Researchers discover UnknownCheats and ElitePVPers

We understand and apologize to our non-Native English speaking friends.

We realize English can be weird when sentences like this make sense:

"Those fuckin' muthafuckers, always fuckin' fucking around. Fuckin' fucking with their fuckin' fucked shit.".

We're cooked

Today the Dutch National Police, in conjunction with the FBI, disrupted the operations of Redline information stealer and Meta information stealer.

It was named Operation Magnus and it had an official website.

operation-magnus.com

It has an official website***

Way too early for European law enforcement to be taking down MaaS operations.

The video released by the Dutch National Police and United States Federal Bureau of Investigation comes across as like, a TikTok video or something.

10/10 "VIP, Very Important to Police"

We reached out to the law enforcement officials behind Operation Magnus (we sent them a silly picture of a cat).

Hahahahahahahaha

The Simland Telegram channel was banned on Telegram — although a new one has already been created.

Following the arrest of Pavel Durov in France, Telegram users are reporting a significant increase in Telegram taking action on crime-related channels.

Through a series of unfortunate events, additions to vx-underground are going to be dead in the water.

We've got 99 problems and they're all things not on the internet. Our AFK-ness could extend for a week, maybe 2.

We'll just shit post when we have the time.

Thanks,

We're not shutting down.

We're just going to be AFK so additions are suspended for a little bit.

We got a few DMs from people acting like the world is ending (it's not)

The Russian Federation has fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

To point that into perspective: yo momma

antiviruses are malware that target malware

the internet is a bunch of children surfing on computer keyboards several hundred kilometers in orbit

wtf just found lumma stealer in candy

please do not feed the NFT influencers

October 30th Okta disclosed a vulnerability whereas individuals could bypass AD/LDAP Delegated Authentication by providing a username greater than 52 characters.

It required a cached previous success login attempt.

tl;dr employees with long last names are a security threat

Hispanic users with 30 last names (all hypenated) && Eastern Europeans users with ski and/or vich and/or ska in their name

Only a few more days of misinformation campaigns in the United States (it'll be back shortly after)

Interesting things that happened lately:

October 31st: safe0x17 released RustVEHSyscalls, a Rust port for LayeredSyscalls — performs indirect syscalls while generating legitimate API call stack frames by abusing VEH

October 30th: FeribHellscream released a paper on forming a shell company and attempting to purchase an EV code sign cert (it's not fun)

October 29th: 404mediaco received a leaked document from the largest New York hospital system — the document encourages physicians to use Artificial Intelligence to summarize clinical evaluations, diagnose medical issues, and parse health records

October 29th: BratvaCorp noted based on the recent United States Department of Justice indictment of Redline information stealer developers — the authors of Redline connected to their platform from their home IP addresses and linked assets to their personal iCloud accounts.

October 27th: MalDevAcademy released a proof-of-concept code illustration of extracting an encrypted and embedded PE file from a PNG file and executing it via a LNK file.

October 23rd: SttyK released a talk on how he discovered North Korean state-sponsored spys on Discord.

October 22nd: 0gtweet released a paper on on how to read BitLocker numerical passwords via the Windows API.

October 22nd: mez0 via TrustedSec released a paper on malware development via the Groovy programming language and it's usage in network enumeration.

October 19th: Hexacorn discovered a new malware persistence technique by abusing the UserInstStubWrapper API in advpacker.dll and IEAdvpacker.dll

October 18th: Hexacorn notes the discovery of 'ClickedOnRAT' windows API function from Windows XP. It's not related to malware, the API name is silly and misleading.

October 18th: Hexacorn unveiled a prankware technique by abusing NdfRunDllDuplicateIPDefendingSystem and NdfRunDllDuplicateIPOffendingSystem