Jack Teixeira, the individual who leaked sensitive United States military documents onto a Minecraft Discord, had bullet proof opsec.

Also, Jack Teixeira asks random nerd on Discord to help delete evidence to help him evade the United States government.

Plot twist: random Discord nerd does not delete evidence

We've updated the vx-underground malware sample collection. We have added new samples for the following families:

- Emotet
- Redline
- CactusRansomware
- Netwalker
- Kovter
- AsyncRAT
- BitRAT
- DCRat
- Darkbit
- ChaosRansomware

Check it out here: https://samples.vx-underground.org/samples/Families/

Today the United States Navy unveiled its newest supercomputer. It is named Nautilus.

- Peak performance: 8.2 petaFLOPS
- 176,128 processor cores
- 382TB of RAM
- 26 Petabytes of storage
- 48 GPU Nodes

tl;dr this supercomputer is capable of running 2 instances of Cyberpunk 2077.

We've updated the vx-underground malware source code collection. We've added Panel.Babuk and Panel.Monti.

The backend code for Babuk and Monti (affiliates, pages, login, etc). were leaked by a drunk person online.

Special thanks to 3xp0rtblog for the information

Check it out here: https://github.com/vxunderground/MalwareSourceCode

Moments ago ALPHV ransomware group published an article titled "Western Digital Chronicles II: The Weekly Descent into Oblivion".

Words cannot describe how incomprehensibly vile and ruthless ALPHV is acting. We have not seen such ruthlessness since Mespinoza ransomware group.

This morning Lockbit ransomware group ransomed a church in Greenville, South Carolina.

This does not appear to violate their rules set for affiliates. They no longer make exemptions for non-profits or religious organizations.

Information via AlvieriD

We've updated the vx-underground malware sample collection. We have added new samples for the following families:

- Emotet
- CobaltStrike
- HermeticWiper
- RedLine
- RaccoonStealer
- Ousaban
- CyclopsBlink
- ArkeiStealer
- AgentTesla

Check it out here: https://samples.vx-underground.org/samples/Families/

We've updated The Old New Thing archive for April, 2023.

Have a nice day. Enjoy your Sunday.

Link: https://www.vx-underground.org/the_old_new_thing.html

American cellular service provider T-mobile has announced it has been breached... again (and again (August, 2018), again (November, 2019), again (March, 2020), again (December, 2020), again (February, 2021), again (August, 2021), again (April, 2022), again (February, 2023).

We forgot the ending ')' - had to type 'again' so many times we got lost in space and time

Big shoutout to "Steph441" for selling Black Mass Volume 1 for $14.98 on Ebay.

We sell it on Amazon for $8.

It is nice of you to scalp us, while we make almost zero money.

Before using an ATM always check for Largemouth Bass.

They are an important part of the cybercrime ecosystem and avoiding Largemouth Bass can be the difference between a good day or stolen money.

We've updated the vx-underground Bulk Malware Download collection

- InTheWild.0068
- InTheWild.0069
- 40,000 new unique malicious binaries

Check it out here: https://samples.vx-underground.org/samples/Blocks/

PornHub (and affiliated entities) have banned all traffic from the state of Utah as a result of 'S.B. 287 Online Pornography Viewing Age Requirements' bill

PornHub released a statement regarding the traffic ban.

Information via LawrenceAbrams

tl;dr users must show ID to pornography distributors, if PornHub (or others) do not verify the age of the user they can be liable for damages.

They don't want to have every user from Utah submit their photo ID everytime they visit one of their pornography networks,

Today Avos ransomware group ransomed Bluefield University.

Avos successfully hijacked the universities "RamAlert" emergency broadcast system. Avos began sending mass notifications to students and faculty.

We have never seen this before.

Intel and photo via BrettCallow