Yesterday I spazzed out for a bit about malware terminology. Now that I'm calm (I've had my morning coffee, a delicious sandwich, and my yummy cigarettes) let's have a conversation about malware nomenclature.

Educational material in regards to malware, specifically in schools, is painfully outdated and is in desperate need to being updated.

It's not uncommon for schools to list the generic, broad, vague, and ambiguous terms for malware being (something along the lines of): Adware, Spyware, Ransomware (NEW!), Backdoor, Trojan, Rootkit, and Worm. Sometimes they'll sprinkle in something like "Zip Bomb" or "0day".

All of these terms heavily overlap with each other. It is entirely possible for something to be a "backdoor" while also simultaneously being a "trojan" "rootkit".

These terms are fossils from the 1990's, early 2000's, and don't accurately reflect how modern malware works.

Proposed update:
- Stager
- Loader
- Module
- Ransomware
- Stealer
- Drainer
- Wiper
- RAT
- ???

Each should also note the motive of the malware (state-sponsored, financially motivated, "troll", or hacktivist).

imagine being some stinky nerd and europol rides up and hits your ass with a flash bang at 9 IN THE MORNING and on a FRIDAY

smh rude af

YouTuber, and stinky malware degenerate, John "BigMoney" Hammond a/k/a _JohnHammond created a CTF and references vx-underground whereas he asserts the password could potentially be infected.

smh makes me PHYSICALLY sick

A large VPN provider reached out to me.

They were wanting to do some stuff together to reach the cybersecurity audience, or something.

The primary reason I don't do ads, while I very much enjoy having money, is because I can't in good faith recommend a product to my audience which I cannot in totality stand behind.

vx-underground's success is partially due to transparency, honesty, admitting mistakes, and willingness to accept fault and/or responsibility.

I believe there is a shift in the VPN-sphere whereas some providers are trying to capture a more cybersecurity attentive audience.

That's cool. Do your thing homie. I understand the VPN business is rough and your company is always on the grind to make money. No hate.

However, I can't deceive my audience because they're the only reason I have success

Thank you for the love and support despite my many (MANY) faults, mistakes, typos, repetitive corrections and updates, unnecessarily crass tone when writing, failed and/or abandoned vx-underground experiments, etc.

I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing and why so many people follow this account. But we're riding this bitch, dawg

Ride and die malware ✊(I'm scared and confused)

Anyway, now that I'm done virtue signaling and pretending I'm all high and mighty, here is a new formula I'm experimenting with.

I'll be pushing updates to the "Updates" directory. It has cool and badass ASCII art like old VXUG

https://vx-underground.org/Updates

No, vx-underground is not associated with any cryptocurrencies. I don't know why people keep asking.

I'm not a cryptocurrency nerd.

I (very sincerely) don't even understand how it works. I perceive it as imaginary internet money that nerds use for nerd stuff.

Want to stop cybercrime tomorrow? Simple. Decriminalize cybercrime.

Can't be a crime if it's not illegal

Think smarter not harder

Nintendo wanted to do an advertisement on the Switch and FOX news Milwaukee, Wisconsin, jumped the gun and went doomer mode on bro😢

Hello,

More updates have been pushed. Look at it, enjoy the spoopy ASCII art.

https://vx-underground.org/Updates

Yo this z3bra dude is fuckin COOKIN

Holy guacamole bro

https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/718917-elysium-uefi-bootkit-framework-attacks-boot-time-code-integrity.html

> "Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI"

We're under a massive DDoS attack.

Oh no! Now I can't work! I guess that means all I can do is schizo post on social media and play video games!

In all seriousness, I'm going to bed.

If you want to mildly irritate me, please perform DDoS attacks during my scheduled vx-underground work hours which is typically early morning US-EAST before I start working my actual job.

Otherwise you're wasting your botnet bandwidth

HAHA SIKE. GOTCHA BITCH. REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY'D YOU.

Nah, I'm kidding. I am going to bed for real. But it would be really funny if they stopped the DDoS after this post and resumed it during when I actually worked on vx-underground.

Hahahahahaha they stopped the DDoS attack

Okay, that's super fucking funny

I'll see you guys (whoever is DDoSing me) in roughly 8 hours from now

+1 silly cat video for the people with the botnet DDoSing me. Very silly shenanigans