His write-up: https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2019/09/overview-of-windows-execution-aliases.html

> be me
> have idea
> look inside
> james forshaw, or x86matthew, or hexacorn, or grzegorz tworek did it

/me flips desk

i got https without winsocks working by communicating directly with drivers. i said i wouldnt do it, but i did. everything hurts inside

Lots of discussion on the internet today. Someone created a website which tracks* Vtuber menstrual cycles.

*Some Vtubers commented their tracker is laughably incorrect

>poking windows with stick
>want to learn how handles tls http stuff
>look inside
>secu32.dll - QueryContextAttributesW
>look inside
>sspi.dll - QueryContextAttributesW
>look inside
>sspi provider virtual table QueryContextAttributes
>look inside
>LsaQueryContextAttributesW
>look inside
>NtDeviceIoControlFile
>talks to driver kdsecdd
>Kernel-mode Security Device Driver

tl;dr

Chat, I've done it.

I've managed to get Windows Sockets (Winsock) functionality working by communicating directly with AFD (Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock) by IO control codes AND used it with HTTPS by using SSPI (Microsoft Security Support Provider Interface).

By doing this, this completely eliminates the need for WININET or WINHTTP for malware payloads. It also removes the weird telemetry and ETW stuff present in Winsocks, WININET, and WINHTTP.

My code is still in a debug state at the moment, but I'll eventually release a non-fucked-up version (no SYSCALLs, no position independence) so people can look at it, study it, or review it.

Currently this is only supports GET requests for simple pages (not even file downloads...). However, I'm having so much fun with this I think I am going to expand on it to do the following:

- HTTPS authentication
- HTTPS upload
- HTTPS download
- ???

I'll make it all open source, non-crazy, in a format people can copy pasta and have fun with it. I'll also probably make a fork where it's the crazy schizo version.

I hope all my malware development friends, reverse engineer friends, and anime friends, look at it and appreciate it. This is some of my favorite code I've written and I think it has a lot of applicability to Red team engagement. Conversely, it also offers insight to defenders on detecting this sort of functionality.

Lots of drama on the internet today as nerds quickly ascertained some new stuff CloudFlare released was vibe coded, and a blog was written with AI

Internet nerds collectively began screaming as they witnessed the slop slowly, but surely, encapsulate their entire existence.

Madhu Gottumukkala, the freshly elected Director of the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has had a few ... kerfuffles ... since he began the role.

He initially was Deputy Director, nominated by United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem, in May 16th.

May 30th most leadership at CISA had resigned. He was promoted to Director.

In June, 2025, Gottumukkala requested access to a DHS controlled access program. He was issued a polygraph test. He failed the polygraph test. Six staffers were suspended after Gottumukkala failed the polygraph test because it was determined Gottumukkala did not need to take a polygraph test for access to the controlled access program.

In January, 2026, it was unveiled that Gottumukkala had, on at least four different occasions, uploaded FOUO (For Official Us Only) documents to ChatGPT. This violates DHS guidelines. DHS employees are issued an AI agent called "DHSChat".

Per DHS, ChatGPT is blocked on DHS networks and devices. However, Gottumukkala requested special access to use ChatGPT and it was granted. It was during a routine audit it was discovered Gottumukkala uploaded these FUOU documents.

"You penetration test 'em so you simulate the pressure"

🗣🔥🔥

I've seen some comments recently where people have criticized this social media profiles grammar, typos, and word misuse.

This has been a long standing issue with this social media because the mysterious (and smelly) person behind it can't brain good.

Hi

I have finished the first part of my Spoopy Windows Sockets project. I'll continually work on it for because I'm (probably) mentally ill.

I have written code which can communicate with HTTPS hosts without using WININET, WINHTTP, or WINSOCKS. It works by communicating directly with the Windows AFD (Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock). This is extremely beneficial because WININET, WINHTTP, and WINSOCKS have Windows telemetry stuff in place, for detecting stuff, or whatever.

My favorite part of this project is that it also resolves DNS with AFD, so you can resolve DNS with SYSCALLS too.

Basically, you can do web stuff with raw SYSCALLS and nothing else (sort of). The HTTPS TLS verification stuff happens (mostly) in user-mode space, and attempting to recreate it programmatically would result in me having to basically recreate something like OpenSSL, but Windows specific. I'm not doing that.

You COULD do HTTPS stuff without verifying the TLS stuff, but that is probably a poor decision.

Anyway, I have stripped this code down to the bone. I have removed virtually all dependencies. All headers have been recreated from scratched so there is zero bloat. This project and/or proof-of-concept is entirely self-encapsulated.

To make it work all you need to do CTRL+C and CTRL+V into Visual Studio. That's it. Nothing else. I have made it as shrimple as possible.

It has two functions right now:
- EXAMPLE_HttpsSimpleGetRequestClose
- EXAMPLE_HttpsSimpleGetRequestKeepAlive

The names speak for themselves.

I have code in place which will allow file uploads, downloads, and (maybe) HTTPS authentication. Ideally Red Team nerds, or Blue Team nerds, can look at this, poke it with a stick, and do really cool stuff with it. I have made it as least-schizo as possible. I have removed the position independence and stuff.

This project is the result of research by x86matthew, Apple, Mārtiņš Možeiko, Mateusz Lewczak, Google Chrome nerds, ReactOS nerds, and some guy on UnknownCheats who writes like a caveman.

https://gist.github.com/vxunderground/0db801dbc16371fc2b3143d471f551b0

TODO:
- File Upload (done, just needs improvement)
- File Download
- Authentication
- C5pider mentioned proxy support?

Thanks to HTTPBin I'm having a lot of fun with this.

The Chinese government executed 11 people today. They were leaders in a massive crypto scamming empire.

The Ming crime family had at it's peak over 10,000 people performing scams for them. People who tried to leave were beaten or in some instances killed.

They people who "worked" for the Ming crime family performed crypto pig butchering scams. In other words, long-term romance cons.

The Chinese government began a crackdown on the Ming crime family in 2023 following international scrutiny. After their detention they sentenced to death.

One of the leaders of the Ming crime family killed himself in jail while awaiting sentencing.

Life is so gosh dang weird

Some nerd from Rapid7 commented that my Spoopy Winsocks project is basically identical to Amatera stealers HTTPS functionality.

I didn't know this existed. Our code base and application flow is similar. It looks like Amatera stealer and I also used the same research material.

tldr creepily similar code, by complete chance

https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/amatera-stealer-rebranded-acr-stealer-improved-evasion-sophistication

Based on the binary analysis from Proofpoint, my code base does some things slightly differently, but regardless the core concept and main application flow is the same.

It's really fucking weird how similar it is by complete chance

Amatera Stealer isn't open source. It's not something you can copy pasta off GitHub.

Startup idea: electric vehicles that charge over USB C

Microsoft stock fell 11% today, a total loss equal to $400,000,000,000.

Despite constant growth from Microsoft, and cloud earnings exceeding expectations, investors expressed concern over "ballooning" AI spending.

Microsoft asserts their spending is due to being unable to meet customer demand for AI.