Blackhats be like "Oh, you're not a Fed? Prove it. Kill an innocent bystander in broad daylight. A Fed would never commit homicide in broad daylight."

We've updated the vx-underground malware sample collection. We've added 54,258 samples.

Special thanks to petikvx

Check it out here: https://www.vx-underground.org/malware.html

Methodist Family Health, a non-profit Arkansas-based child healthcare facility, has been ransomed by Avos ransomware group.

Methodist Family Health provides psychiatric assistance to children who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.

We have never seen a ransomware group target a non-profit child healthcare facility - especially one which deals with children who are victims of abuse.

This beat and video was produced by some random guy vx-underground encountered online on Telegram. The beat slaps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xpd5c-uPAs

March 6th: EUROPOL announced the arrest of 2 individuals tied to DoppelPaymer ransomware group. German authorities state the March 6th arrests were related to a ransomware attack which resulted in the death of a patient September 18th, 2020 at Düsseldorf Hospital.

The German government issued a warrant for Irina's arrest right before International Women's Day:(

vx-underground was briefly shown on National Geographic last week on an episode about cyber crime.

We are not a hacker forum.

The green links are links they clicked. National Geographic clearly has no interest in Windows malware papers.

We've archived the vx-underground APT collection for the year 2022. You can now download every APT sample and paper from the year 2022 in bulk.

- 4,848 malware samples
- 480 papers
- 6.47GB (compressed)

Check it out here: https://samples.vx-underground.org/samples/Blocks/APT%20Collection/

Some individuals from Fiverr, an online freelancer marketplace, have contacted vx-underground.

A Threat Actor is social engineering freelancers, tricking them into running a loader which executes Redline stealer.

AnyRun Analysis: https://app.any.run/tasks/993103a3-2430-4b1c-8c6f-59a00913067d/

Yesterday Rob Joyce, the Director of the United States National Security Agency (NSA), asked Twitter users to caption an old photo of him. He did not like our title caption:(

More context on vx-underground being featured on National Geographic

Video courtesy of realhackhistory

We've updated the vx-underground Windows malware kernel paper collection.

- Lord Of The Ring0 - Part 1 - Part 4

Check it out here: https://www.vx-underground.org/windows.html#kernel_mode

Lockbit ransomware group has ransomed a 3rd party parts manufacturer for SpaceX - they claim to possess over 3,000 proprietary schematics for SpaceX.

In the ransom announcement Lockbit issued a message to Elon Musk and SpaceX employees, taunting them.

Information via AlvieriD

Ring LLC, the home security and smart home company owned by Amazon, has been ransomed by ALPHV ransomware group.

They left a simple message to Ring: "There's always the option to let us leak your data".