cl0p ransomware group administrative staff, if you're reading this message: please fix your blog. It is difficult to view

Административный персонал группы вымогателей cl0p, если вы читаете это сообщение, у нас есть просьба: пожалуйста, исправьте свой блог. Трудно просматривать

Earlier this morning we spoke with Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff. We asked why there has been a significant decrease in victim postings and blog activity.

They informed us they're currently on holiday and enjoying the nice summer weather.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Diogo Santos Coelho, the ex-administrator of the infamous RaidForums, is fighting United States extradition where he is facing 52 years in prison.

His lawyer argues extradition to the United States is a violation of his human rights.

More info: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-accused-setting-up-hacker-30314538

Oops. We need to make a slight correction to this post.

231 companies have been impacted by cl0p post-MoveIT exploit*.

These 231 companies are either posted on the cl0p site OR have publicly disclosed a breach via cl0p*

Not all 231 are confirmed to be as a result of MoveIT*

We've updated the vx-underground malware collection. Virusshare00474 is now available for download.

- 38,786 unique malicious binaries
- All named using Kaspersky naming convention
- 13.42GB (compressed)

Have a nice day.

https://www.vx-underground.org

We have very exciting news. We have a new sponsor! We're now sponsored by NightHawk C2 of MDSecLabs!

Thank you for allowing us keep malware source code, samples, and papers free. Free malware educational material forever =D

We're working on collecting the work of Stefan Kanthak.

If you're not familiar with Stefan Kanthak, he is the author of the legendary "Defense in Depth the Microsoft way" series on the BugTraq mailing list.

We have archived half of his posts so far.

Have a nice day =D

Inspired by our friend SPTHvx, let's review a collection of malware author interviews from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

In these interviews, the interviewer asked "what do you think the future of malware looks like?".

Let's open a time capsule on a Saturday night =D

1. Urnst Kouch, Summer 1993

He predicts the future will hold 'cramming advanced stealth, tunneling, and multi-partitism' into malware.

2. Qark/VLAD, December 1995

He predicts Windows 95 will have polymorphic engines with layers and layers of encryption.

3. Crom-Cruach/Trident, 1995

He predicts PowerPC will be interesting. Hahahaha

4. MrSandman/29a, April 1997

MrSandman believes Bill Gates will bring Windows to a majority of users. He thinks malicious webpages and interpreter languages (such as Java) will be the new threat.

Excellent prediction!

5. Q the Misanthrope/VLAD, July 1998.

Q the Misanthrope predicts e-mails with embedded macros will be a huge problem. He thinks Windows will be filled with holes and malware authors will abuse all of them.

Excellent prediction!

6. Pockets, in late 1998

He predicts that cross-platform malware will be a new and emerging threat.

7. LovingGod, March 1999

He predicts internet worms and artificial intelligence will have more power. He predicts malware will turn into weapons.

8. Foxz/NMVT, May 1999

Although he loves coding in ASM, he believes that malicious HTML pages will be common in the future.

Good prediction

9. Nightmare Joker, May 1999

He believes the future will be bright for malicious VBScript and Java malware writers.

10. doxtorL, August 2000.

He believes macro malware will disappear because Microsoft suggests they can be easily stopped.

Hahahahahahahahaha. 23 years later and it isn't even close to stopping.

11. MentalDriller/29a, March 2002

MentalDriller predicts worms and self-spreading e-mail worms will be a problem.

12. alcopaul/rRlf, March 2002

He predicts SMS worms will be a thing in the future.

13. vx_herm1t November 2007

He predicts IoT devices i.e. "smart devices" will be vulnerable.

Excellent prediction!