I planned on making educational YouTube videos, but with full time employment, a 10 month old baby (about to be 11 months in a few days!), the rest of my family, a vx-underground, work developing malware and poking malware with a stick, I can't summon the energy to make dumb videos on malware.

I'm soft blooded.

When I'm not working, my brain is so deep fried and exhausted I unironically watch Elder Scrolls lore videos and dumb videos on internet drama.

I don't have any friends in real life, they're all far away or married with children too. My entire existence is working or caring for a baby.

It's not bad, I love it. I'm very happy.

But... God damn am I tired. I'm so tired and I don't even really remember the last time I was able to relax. It's unironically been years since I wasn't working in some capacity. At this point, I don't even know if I know how to relax. When I'm not doing malware stuff, I feel compelled to do malware stuff.

It's all ogre.

I don't expect any of you to give a shit. But I wanted to scream into the void of internet.

Thanks.

Yeah, so pretty much that whole Windows 11 Notepad RCE thing was ridiculously stupid. Like, it was so dumb it kind of hurts.

Windows 11 Notepad, with the fancy Copilot AI slop, now possesses the ability to handle mark up, or markdown, ... It's mark something, the stuff used in ReadMes. Whatever.

Anyway, a security researcher realized that if you used markup in Notepad and instead of a hyperlink to a website with https:// you put file:// (the protocol on Windows for files, like in file explorer), it will arbitrarily execute it. It won't prompt you.

Furthermore, he realized you could specify a remote host to execute it from using a different Microsoft specific protocol used for app installation. In other words, if you user clicked the hyperlink in Notepad it would download and run a program from any website ... without alerting the user.

Normally, any sort of hyperlink that leads to a different domain, or tries to execute a file, is supposed to prompt you with an alert message, ... or something. However, Microsoft software engineers seemingly forgot to implement this notification Window.

With this attack vector which has been present for AT LEAST 9 months, a malicious actor could send a .txt file and if the user clicked the link inside the .txt file it would automatically execute and run anything specified in the hyperlink.

Even more silly, forensically under the hood, the logs on Windows, or to an anti malware service, it would look like Notepad was downloading something and then running a program. This is a very unique scenario which (to the best of my knowledge) no security product has encountered before. This could hypothetically result in files being downloaded and executed and being completely ignored by anti malware services because Notepad is a known and trusted program. Why would an anti malware service question Notepad?

Basically, the point I'm trying to get to here is that I don't understand why Microsoft has introduced so many new features into Notepad. With new features means a new attack landscape (more stuff to abuse).

Whatever man

It's 2026 and now defenders need to unironically worry about malicious text files.

Nothing is sacred.

> wake up
> take a shit
> get out of bed
> check computer
> OMFG

Chat, it's a big Friday. We got lots of schizo shit to discuss today. I've got to make at least 4 posts about all the shenanigans

Big big drama today in Cybersecurity world. A cybersecurity company is faced with telling the truth, or using "softer language" to avoid losing money or (worse case scenario) employees disappearing

See subsequent post for the full news article. Here is the drama summary

> be palo alto
> have threat intel division named unit42
> unit42 finds hacking campaign
> calls it "shadow campaign"
> attribute hacking campaign to chinese government
> palo alto executives see report
> suggest remove attribution to china
> new suggestion appears
> "state-aligned group that operates out of Asia"
> original draft given to reuters
> lolwtf
> backup, rewind
> January 2026 china say palo alto bad
> palo alto worried about china government
> palo alto have employees in china
> palo alto have five offices in china
> vp lady from palo alto emails journalists
> "not worried about china lol"
> ask why change then
> VP: "attribution is irrelevent"
> ask if scared of china
> VP: "speculative and false"
> ask why change (again)
> VP: "Choice of language in Palo Alto's report reflected how to best inform and protect governments about this widespread campaign"
> ???

News article: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/palo-alto-chose-not-tie-china-hacking-campaign-fear-retaliation-beijing-sources-2026-02-12/

Half you stinky fucking nerds would fold immediately. You'd know it's a spy too, you'd be like, "fuck it, I don't give a shit".

Exhibit A:

Spoke with normal people today.

Within the first couple of minutes I realized I'm a degenerate no life who is completely detached from reality

They discussed foreign concepts such as, "plans this weekend" and "sports".

They asked me about "plans this weekend" and "sports". I froze. I could barely make sense of these concepts.

Using context clues I was able to string together a few sentences which seemed to throw them off my scent. I said something akin to, "Not a fan of Tiger Woods, but the Dow Jones is over 50,000".

Mission accomplished.

Last week two of my posts regarding Epstein exceeded 100,000 likes. One of the posts I made exceeded 200,000 likes.

In the spirit of full disclosure, it resulted in an X payment of over $3,000.

While this is a pretty penny, I like to imagine how much money controversial or politically charged accounts make. If they can make a few big posts a month then they're set.

How do I install Windows Defender on Kali Linux?

Hello,

If you're a tiny person living inside my computer, and also by chance like malware, I have added more malware to malware city.

Approx. 250,000 malwares have been added. I also added some more malware analysis stuff. More stuff is coming.

https://vx-underground.org/Updates

I have some cool malware proof of concepts I'm working on. They're pretty cool and kind of undocumented.

My problem is I have carpal tunnel and (playful) amounts of nerve damage.

I need someone to lend me their hands. Give me your hands.

I've updated my personal website malwaresourcecode.com.

I've added new ways to do the following:
- CaplockString
- CopyMemory
- StringCompare
- StringConcat
- StringLength
- ZeroMemory

You're probably thinking, "why do i give a fuck about this? this all standard crt stuff". The answer is: "idk lol". I like exploring different ways to do things. It is interesting to me.

I'm currently working on a way to download files from a remote host using NdrClientCall3 (RPCs with IBackgroundCopyJob) and ended up falling down a weird rabbit hole.

Maybe you'll find it mildly interesting, maybe you're rolling your eyes because it is kind of goofy to find seven different ways to zero fill a buffer.

But is it goofy I have 18 different ways to hash a string? Yes, it is still goofy, but I admire it for some reason.

Cheers,

That guy who made OpenClaw is now working at OpenAI.

What does this mean? Probably nothing.

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Being an AI hype bro and a crypto bro at the same time is like mixing Fentanyl with Xanax

Both will ruin your life and probably kill you

Sometimes I think about the time some people from this group called QAnon accused me and ThugCrowd of being a Biden psyop to put people in "FEMA concentration camps".

It's been years and I'm still confused by it.