No, you don't need to learn how to code. Most malware can be assembled by visiting your local toy store and purchasing a Lego Malware Development Kit.

The attached image is a never seen before photo of Conti ransomware group making their first ransomware variant.

Updates to vx-underground are going to be suspended for a good duration of time. The attached image below describes our current situation.

Best way to summarize our migration and improvements while in testing

We will gift free vx-underground swag to the first person to write malware in MATLAB. MATLAB supports invocation of WINAPI functions by invoking loadlibrary.

- Must be open source
- Windows ONLY
- Code must work (compiled as .exe)
- Basic malware, nothing fancy, no ransomware

NOTE: We have never seen malware written in MATLAB before. And, to the best of our knowledge, no vendor has written a report on this. It'll be something truly special!

*We don't have any papers on MATLAB in our 15,000+ malware analysis papers...

Yo YoroiSecurity, who the hell writes like this? Did your company resurrect the ghost of 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche?

November 11th, 2019 officer Rafael Aguilera of the Little Rock, Arkansas Police Department logs into his patrol units computer system.

The body cam footage shows him typing "Sierra123$".

Hopefully they've changed their passwords since 2019.

We would also like to remind BianLian that Save the Children is part of Russian and Ukraine. They first assisted Russia in 1921 during the Russian famine. They fed over 675,000 people for free.

How will you explain this to your people?

WW3, and the end of the world as we know it, will be between K-Pop stans and Anime nerds.

We've uploaded 20,000 new malware samples to our VXDB. 20,000 down and ... 15,980,000 to go

Registration is free. Downloads are free. It's all free thanks to donors and supporters like you 🫡

https://virus.exchange

All ALPHV ransomware group did to compromise MGM Resorts was hop on LinkedIn, find an employee, then call the Help Desk.

A company valued at $33,900,000,000 was defeated by a 10-minute conversation.

What's new with us? Well, we've got quite a bit of updates.

1. Our new VXDB is live, we are working on populating it with our entire malware sample collection. Once all malware samples are present we will allow verified individuals to share and/or upload samples to the VXDB. We are restricting access to verified individuals only so the database isn't filled with junk data. The database is, as we've said 1,000 times before, free for everyone to use. It currently has limitations, but it is an ongoing work and progress and it is 100% open source:)

2. Black Mass Volume II will be released this weekend (ideally). It was be available for sale on Amazon and free for download on vx-underground. The Amazon price will be as cheap as possible to ensure people all across the world, regardless of income, can purchase a physical if they'd like. Additionally, upon release we will be giving away over 40 copies of Black Mass Volume II for free! More details on that later.

3. vx-underground is being re-vamped (again). We are migrating away from Alibaba and moving to Wasabi. Alibaba was being ... a pain ... they do not play nice while migrating. We've had to make several local copies and now we are in the process of migrating to Wasabi. Once the migration is complete vx-underground will receive a new front-end (again). The new front-end will be written in Elixir, automatically update with new additions, and allow website visitors to scrape the site easier. Yes, we are going WAY out of our way to make sure you nerds can scrape it.

4. Yes, we will eventually sell physical copies of vx-underground on SATA harddrives. This is something we are currently researching to ensure we do not bankrupt ourselves trying to do this. Be patient.

5. We are doing another giveaway. Soon we will be giving away subscriptions to MULLVAD VPN for nerds who care about their privacy, or something.

6. Finally, as is tradition, we have tons of new papers and samples to add. However, we cannot do this until step 3 is complete.

This is all thanks to our monthly supporters and sponsors. Thank you for the love and support.

Have a nice day (or evening).

Another day, another series of e-mails from compromised government e-mail addresses.

Thank you for the messages Will and USDoD. They have been received.