> do interview with japanese magazine
> start getting phishing emails in Mandarin
> spoofed emails trying to impersonate vxug members
> originally coming from South Korean servers

If you're a state-sponsored Threat Actor, literally just shoot us a legitimate e-mail and tell us what you're wanting. It's not a big deal, bro.

Honest to God we don't know anything and we're poor

a visual demonstration explaining how malware works

Hello, we would like to remind all of you that security research, malware development, reverse engineering, and exploit development is not the result of a singular individual or entity. We all collectively learn.

Bernard of Chartres, twelfth-century French Neo-Platonist philosopher and scholar, coined a famous phrase which was later used by Isaac Newton – which we believe accurately describes this field of work.

Isaac Newton wrote his rival, Robert Hooke, in 1675. In the letter he penned: "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

This is a metaphor which means "using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual progress" or simply put "discovering truth by building on previous discoveries".

Thank you to everyone who succeeds and releases new research or papers. It inspires us to learn more, evolve, and presents us the opportunity to discover new things ourselves.

"nani gigantum humeris insidentes" – "standing on the shoulders of giants"

the future is now old man

We're working on something kind of unique right now. It's really cool and you nerds will be like "lol wtf"

Also, hope everyone had a good weekend:)

thank god

tl;dr Chinese state-sponsored hackers indicted. Long story. Full indictment can read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/seven-hackers-associated-chinese-government-charged-computer-intrusions-targeting-perceived

Summary:
Today the United States Department of Justice indicted seven individuals believed to be tied to Chinese-stated sponsored group APT31 a/k/a TA412 a/k/a Violet Typhoon a/k/a Zirconium.

The individuals indicted are:
- Ni Gaobin, 38
- Weng Ming, 37
- Cheng Feng, 34
- Peng Yaowen, 38
- Sun Xiaohui, 38
- Xiong Wang, 35
- Zhao Guangzong, 38

All are believed to reside in the People's Republic of China.

The individuals are charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The individuals are believed to have spent the past 14 years targeting United States and foreign critics, businesses, and political officials to further Chinese economic espionage and foreign intelligence objectives.

The full write up, and indictments, from the United States Department of Justice is lengthy and gives more details on their actions.

Top-gg, the self-proclaimed largest collection of Discord bots, was subject to a supply chain attack. The unidentified Threat Actor(s) created a fake Python package domain to deliver poisoned Python packages.

These individual(s) successfully compromised a GitHub maintainer for Top-gg and modified the code base.

You can read the full article here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-poison-source-code-from-largest-discord-bot-platform/

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tl;dr we're digital archaeologists

We can't spoil this too much – but we found an online gem. It's an old video game, released in 1994, that still has servers online. We aren't entirely sure how they're online, or why, but they're still here. It has a daily peak of 50 users whereas in the 1990's it had nearly 500,000 users online daily.

The game client recommends specs of the following:
- 300MHz (800MHz ideally)
- 128MB+ RAM
- Windows 98, Me, 2000
- Windows Media Player 6.4 or later
- 3D acceleration (64mb+ video RAM)

Currently this game has 206 servers online. The game held online expos and/or conventions which were sponsored by companies like Microsoft, Intel, Boeing, and dozens of now defunct companies.

Interestingly, the game also has a server which was briefly pitched as a United States Department of Defense virtual-command center ... which is still online and actively maintained as of 2024-03-25. Around approx. 1999 this server was pitched to United States government personnel to cooperate with allies in Africa – it features a now defunct United States x Africa virtual command center. It currently has a command center for the United States, Israel-Gaza conflict, Ukraine-Russia conflict, and COVID19 information command center. We spoke with the maintainer of this server and learned a lot about him, the game, why he is still around, and so much more. It is profoundly interesting.

Out of the remaining servers are also old virtual meetups, with photos of the people who attended, dating back the early 2000s. It has a birthday server.. for a woman who held an online birthday party sometime in the early 2000s.

It has a teenager server hangout room which was last updated December, 2001. There are lots of notes and images in the teenager server of teens from the 90's writing 'X was here May, 1999' and so on.

The game also features an online graveyard. It is maintained by a woman, who has listed her PII in the game, and has probably 20+ friends who have passed away. It has photos, messages, virtual flowers, and more.

Woke up to internet dorks angrily proclaiming, screaming at the top of their lungs, we are forbidden from discovering something already discovered.

Unironically we get more negative feedback about video games than we do talking to internationally wanted criminals

Anyway, we weren't going to make a video about this... because we don't make videos and we don't profit from our tweets (okay, maybe a few pennies, we're so sorry).

But let it be known!! They are correct – we watched VineSauce and RedLyne! Please forgive us 😭🙏