When developing malware it is important to inform any potential analysts the code is not malicious. Leave them a simple message, leave a string in the code as simple as "this is not malware, go away".

We're uploading 228,030 new malware samples to our VXDB (223GB uncompressed).

Reminder that our malware database is free. You can search through our entire malware collection and download to your hearts content =D

Total samples available: 18,995,422

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Hello Kitty ransomware group, the group most known for ransoming video game publisher CD Projekt Red, had their source code leaked online today.

Information and data via 3xp0rtblog

You can view the source code here: https://github.com/vxunderground/MalwareSourceCode

It should be noted however that the leaker, kapuchin0, states he (Hello Kitty ransomware?) no longer need this and they intend on developing something superior to Lockbit ransomware group.

Sebastien Raoult, known online as Sezyo Kaizen, an affiliate (or as the courts write, 'co-conspirator') to the ShinyHunters data broker group, has plead guilty in the United States for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft

He is facing 27 years in prison

Dark Angels ransomware group hasn't even finished their payment portal for victims. The Johnson Controls page is just Lorem Ipsum 😭

Image via malwrhunterteam

If exploit developers, reverse engineers, and malware developers were alive in the medieval era they'd be the crazy person living out in the woods trying to perform alchemy spells like turning wood into gold

Dharma ransomware (alternatively referred to as Crysis ransomware) creates payloads which work on Windows 2000.

We've updated the vx-underground malware sample collection

- NokoyawaRansomware
- RhadamanthysLoader
- RoyalRansomware
- Vidar
- BoldMove
- DarkBitRansomware
- BlackSnakeRansomware
- ParadiseRansomware
- GigabudRAT
and more...

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

Exchange this desktop with a Gateway computer, with the weird cow commercials, and a 50lbs (22kg) CRT monitor.

A man on Twitter has created the dumbest post (and thread) in all of Twitter history. This is not an easy achievement either.

!!! Caution: reading this thread may result in spontaneous combustion !!!

tl;dr random guy writes erotic hacker fiction, says incomprehensible nonsense, normies foam out the mouth at the epic 1337ness

https://twitter.com/PatrickByrne/status/1711440905943572918

We've updated the vx-underground InTheWild malware collection. We've added InTheWild.0088 - InTheWild.0094. It is 120,000 new malware samples available for bulk download.

Have a nice day.

https://vx-underground.org

We've uploaded more malware samples to VXDB. There are now 19,223,330 samples available for download.

It is free. 🫡

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More updates to vx-underground.

- The Old New Thing archive has been updated for August, 2023 and September, 2023

- The Malware Analysis collection has been updated, 95 new malware analysis papers have been added via @malpedia.

More to come. 🫡

https://www.vx-underground.org/

David, why you gotta leave us a mixed review on our book because of Amazon recommendations 😭

It's that time of the year again.

ALPHV ransomware group has an AffiliatePlus program. Once affiliates make over $1,500,000 in profit they're given "a promotion" to AffiliatePlus status. Included in the AffiliatePlus program is access to "Munchkin", their custom Linux OS.

See image for details.

malware spelled backwards is racecar

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1 like = 1 malware

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