A Threat Actor named "KyivWarrior" claims to be the individual responsible for the Dragos breach. They also claim to have persistent access to Dragos.

KyivWarrior has not stated which ransomware group they belong to.

*Name, faces, and details have been censored

We've updated the vx-underground InTheWild collection.

-InTheWild.0071
-20,000 unique samples

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

Congratulations, Wazawaka. You are now on the FBIs Most Wanted list.

RIP

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/mikhail-pavlovich-matveev

$10,000,000 reward for his arrest.

=D

You're famous, Boris!

Cyber security is rapidly evolving. Blue Teamers must know an array of different technologies. They must also be proficient in Martial Arts.

TIL Adolf Hitler was a member of Radio Head

*Image from Microsoft Bing search engine
*Yes, it is real. No idea what went wrong
*Image via jdx

Radiohead*.

An attempt was made.

"Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill Wednesday banning TikTok in the state. Gianforte tweeted that he has banned TikTok in Montana “to protect Montanans' personal and private data from the Chinese Communist Party,”"

Facebook, Twitter, Google, NSA and Microsoft is OK though

tl;dr TikTok is banned in the entire state of Montana because China, or something

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/tech/montana-governor-tiktok

Apologies for the delayed release of Black Mass Volume II, vx-underground MWDB, papers and samples, and also late e-mail and DM replies.

Every single member of vx-underground is at max capacity. IRL things must take priority.

Something, something, good things happen with time

This will be framed and put somewhere at vx-underground HQ.

Bill Gates' arch-nemesis, Bill Fences. Bill Fences invented Linux.

Remember when Anonymous was cool and trolled Oprah Winfrey into saying "9000 penises" on national television?

vx-underground remembers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liYfhRgXGk

"We do not forgive, we do not forget, we have over 9000 penises" - Anonymous

We see a new ransomware blog pop-up online every couple of weeks.

Apparently everyone and their grandma is in a ransomware group now.

Ransomwatch has a fairly comprehensive list: https://ransomwatch.telemetry.ltd/#/INDEX

vx-underground is 4 years old.

Thank you for another exciting year.

Thank you everyone for the love and support. We are continuing our work and will continue to expand our library of malware source, samples, and papers.

We've updated the vx-underground malware family collection.

- HermeticWiper
- Turla
- ElectronBot
- AvosLockerRansomware
- XLoader
- Formbook
- Valyria
- BlackCatRansomware
- Remcos
- DanaBot
- RedLine
- PhobosRansomware
- SharkBot

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

For our Russian speaking friends:

Мы собрали все номера журнала «Хакер» с 1999 по 2022 год. Его размер составляет 14 ГБ. Скоро мы начнем загружать статьи.

We've updated the vx-underground malware family collection.

- AvosLocker
- AgentTesla
- Emotet
- RaccoonStealer
- Coroxy
- LazyScripter
- SmokeLoader
- Escobar
- Valyria
- RedLine
- CobaltStrike
- PandoraRansomware
- WhisperGate

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