The darkest time in my life was the 3 months following my son's birth.

It's not because of my son.

It's because people online recommended I watch anime. I watched anime basically every single day for 90 days straight.

My mind has never been the same.

> be United States
> sanction VPN
> used for ransomware
> ransomware VPN uses Telegram
> Advertisement and customer support
> US Treasury publishes sanction thingie
> list VPNs Telegram channel
> Domain people see it
> See t.me/ransomwarethingie
> "OMG BLOCK T.ME!!!"
> Put global block on t.me
> Breaks Telegram URLs
> Telegram owner mad af
> Complains, says they can't read
> "hehe oops, me no think good"
> Resolved like, 24 hours later

Chat, my entire life I've hated going outside. I like being on beep boop machine and doing malware stuff.

However, my son is 16 months old and, despite everything, I have been extremely happy and fulfilled spending time with my son and extended family outside.

For the first time in my life I do not hate outside because my son is happy outside. He plays in the dirt, farts, and says "Dad?" while pointing at stuff.

It is cool and badass. Being a Dad is super cool and super badass.

Anyway, I see your malwares you've sent me. I plan on getting to it. I have lots of stuff planned. However, it is low priority for me at the moment because my son and I are busy (playing in the dirt, farting, etc).

Overall I'd rate having children a 10/10. Having a little dude call you "Dad" makes you feel good inside in a way nothing else can

Dawg, I'll tell you something right now though, if my son is like six, and he's like, "Dad, you're on beep boop machine a lot. Can you teach me how to malware?".

I'll say, "My son, my flesh and blood, my beautiful baby boy. Sit down. We begin now".

Then I will transfer everything I know about malware from my brain into his brain over several years. When he is a pre-teen he will possess all of my malware knowledge and he will inherit vx-underground when I die.

Or maybe he'll think malware is stinky nerd shit and instead want to play video games with his friends and do psychologically normal things. Only time will tell.

> wake up
> take a shit
> get out of bed
> check email
> email from fbi
> not spoofed
> something something leakbase
> "On behalf of the International Law Enforcement Operation Leak"
> "Law enforcement takes this type of crime extremely seriously and will not hesitate to act against offenders"
> think
> "did i make a leakbase account?"
> flash back
> made account to check out website
> spoke with admin briefly
> unironically sent him pictures of cats
> now fbi and europol sending me mean emails
> is sending cats a crime?

> get email from fbi
> click unsubscribe

HOLY.

The two nerds from Scattered Spider got FIVE YEARS for profiting millions from ransomware and, most notably, ransoming critical infrastructure in the United Kingdom.

Dawg, move to the UK and do cyber crime. It's basically legal there. They don't even extradite you

They'll probably get out in two years. The United Kingdom is badass bro wtf ransomware is basically legal

After receiving an e-mail from the FBI, or EUROPOL, or whatever, about Operation Leak, I decided to establish a line of communication with the FBI.

I am now Super Top Secret (STS) FBI Agent Smelly Smellington, in charge of silly cat picture collection intelligence

Oh, this is the picture I sent:

The FBI after I keep sending them e-mails with pictures of cats for literally no reason (they hate my guts)

Welcome to my DMs

> be UK
> post racism memes
> say schizo stuff
> 2 years in prison
> ransom critical infrastructure
> make millions from cybercrime
> 5 years prison
> eligible for release in 2 years

I don't understand the UK

Malware

Maybe a year ago, I don't remember, a game appeared on Steam called BlockBlasters. BlockBlasters was actually malware, and it gained recognition primarily because it was used to crypto drain a terminally ill cancer patient.

I was the first person (to the best of my knowledge) to reverse engineer BlockBlasters after people began notifying me about the game on Steam potentially being malware.

It ended up being a huge deal, primarily because BlockBlasters was used for targeted crypto draining campaigns.

Anyway, the FBI has begun arresting the people. The first person arrested was 21 year old Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins, based out of Florida. I assume more arrests are coming.

This person specifically made $220,000 from the malware campaign, with $32,000 coming from a terminally ill (now deceased) cancer patient.

tldr you sending me malware is good, sometimes really interesting things happen. Thank you for sending me malware.

Also, I really want to note I didn't do any investigative work or whatever, I just reverse engineered it, explained how it works, noted some IPs or crypto wallets, nothing else. I'm just the malware guy. I'm nothing else. There were a lot of people who came together after BlockBlasters appeared that did really cool stuff and helped a lot of people. Lots of people shared information publicly which identified people. I'm just bonking stuff with sticks and looking at cats

> x ad revenue sharing?
> down.
> monthly vx-underground donors?
> losing more.
> vx-underground sponsors?
> lost more.
> pictures of silly cats?
> up 8000%

Chat, big shenanigans are afoot. Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins, one of the individuals behind the "BlockBlasters" steam malware campaign, also social engineered people online by pretending to be a woman.

Wilkins, and a currently unlisted number of people, worked to spearphish people who owned cryptocurrency. They published a fake game on Steam named "BlockBlasters" which received international attention for crypto draining a terminally ill cancer patient.

It turns out Wilkins also impersonated a person named sibeleth

That girl who was flirting with you, asking about how much money you hold in crypto, was actually a 21 year old African American man

Was laying in bed this morning thinking of Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft).

He makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

I'm so excited to hear about the new additions to Windows next quarter. It's going to be more features we can use for malware. I'm so excited. He's awesome

Literally every 3 or 4 months Satya Nadella serves us up a big slop pot of abusable features. He's a malware factory

The kids are making anti government surveillance memes and I love it.