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To avoid confusion, I'm not positioning myself as like, the authority figure on who is an expert and who isn't an expert in cybersecurity.
My point is that cybersecurity tends to be very close and tight-knit and you would expect someone world-renowned to be immediately identifiable by someone else who works in the industry.
My post is meant to be funny and criticize TV people
I am genuinely impressed by mainstream media outlets ability to find absolute nobodies in cybersecurity. It's remarkable. I am often left speechless.
There has been dozens occasions, especially as of recent, where some media outlet will be like, "Today as a special guest is world-renowned cybersecurity expert and ethical hacker Joe McCyberSecurity".
I'm like, who the fuck is Joe McCybersecurity? I've been doing cybersecurity and malware stuff for a long time and I've never once seen or heard of Joe McCybersecurity. If he is world-renowned, I would THINK I would have seen them or heard of them.
The camera then pans over to Joe McCybersecurity and it is the most generic cookie cutter white dude in a cheap suit and the tag below him will say something like, "Joe McCybersecurity, Ethical Hacker, CEO of Cybersecurity McJoe Industries"
I'm like, "Cybersecurity McJoe Industries? What the fuck is that?". I look it up and it's a generic WordPress website hosted on GoDaddy with an expired SSL cert.
Joe McCybersecurity then babbles incomprehensible nonsense for about 60 seconds until the TV host goes "woaw" and it cuts to a commercial.
Absolute cinema.
I have a really deep appreciation for YARA and the work VirusTotal's engineers put into YARA.
YARA is interesting because they encountered some challenges when developing their static analysis engine and they handled it really, really, really well.
Initially I was under the assumption YARA read rules by parsing strings and applying them to binaries in-memory (mapping). However, being a doofus, I failed to consider the fact YARA contains BOOLEAN logic in their rules. Hence, reading the files and parsing them as text wouldn't be able to reliably handle the logic present inside the YARA files.
YARA contains an internal VM and transforms the text into byte code. The caveat being the VM isn't turing complete and does not possess any ability to interact with anything else. This was done intentionally though because it acts as a sandbox.
Regardless, it uses the transformed byte code to perform operations on the in-memory mapped binary using (sort of) simple logic but containing a custom implemented callstack for doing stuff. Furthermore, YARA also has a custom heap management system (they're using the ARENA algorithm).
What makes this even more impressive is all of this written in C, is cross platform for Windows, Linux, and MacOS, and easily compiles.
This is a significant software engineering project and they did an extremely good job.
> be me
> reading on yara stuff
> reviewing yara
> basically user-mode static analysis engine
> reading, reading, reviewing
> realize ive never written a yara rule before
> thinking...
> realize yara is excluded from AV engines
> no av would flag yara lib or dll
> used everywhere
> thinking ...
> what if...
> make yara rules for identifying security products
> make yara rules for environment identification
> edr and/or av would ignore
> "hehe hes checking if its malicious"
> its free real estate
United States President Donald J. Trump posted this message on social media today.
Personal grievances the Trump administration it asserts it has with other countries and political theatrics aside, the notion that the United States even hints are exiting NATO is a PROFOUND cybersecurity issue.
Yes, NATO deals with traditional military stuff (land, sea, air, space), NATO also deals with things in the digital domain (cyberspace).
NATO (non-United States) has historically shared a great deal of intelligence with each other regarding state-sponsored threats to the United States. Likewise, the United States has shared intelligence on state-sponsored with our NATO allies.
It makes me incredibly nervous that this idea of exiting NATO is floated or threatened. NATO cybersecurity space deals a lot with ICS/SCADA (Industrial Control Systems, which is things like water treatments plants, nuclear energy facilities, telecommunication systems, etc) and anything else which possesses a military threat to the United States and it's citizens.
I am unsure of the impact leaving NATO would have on our cybersecurity intelligence. The idea makes me very nervous. The United States is constantly under siege from foreign adversaries (notably China, Russia, North Korea, Iran).
Additionally, I have great concern that if we left NATO it would damage our relationship with European allies which have been of significant importance apprehending Threat Actors who have done extreme damage to the United States. Part of the FBI's success in apprehending ransomware actors have been our strong relationship with EUROPOL, and European allies apprehending individuals residing outside the United States.
Chat, this unironically makes me very nervous.
Them: I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure your family members are looking down from heaven, watching over you, and smiling
Me, a privacy person: They're watching me have sex and poop and stuff?
I decided to kind of spice things up a bit and pivot to malware defense stuff. I explored different thingies and fell down the rabbit hole of YARA stuff. I didn't want to dive into something like minifilters.
I've got this goofy setup where I can extract YARA rules from Windows Defender because of the research from _t_tani
.
I've got like, 20,000 YARA rules, or something, I don't know. It's a lot. Regardless, I was like, "maybe I should make a shrimple file scanner with all these YARA rules". This is what a basic static analysis engine does in usermode.
I saw a lot of people being like, "JUST YARA.EXE --FILE", and I was like, "that's kind of lame". I started bonking the YARA open source repo looking at different stuff.
I then had to fight YARA open source stuff because libyara64.lib wants to fight you to become libyara64.dll. People on GitHub complained too, but whatever, I figured it out.
My next goal is transform all the YARA rules into YARAC, or whatever it's called. In theory, I could then take a binary, or directory, and then use the YARA analysis engine to compare it to all the Microsoft YARA rules.
I then considered implementing basic parameters, or maybe a goofy ass UI, or something.
I then realized I'm basically making THORLite-Lite.
> check tele
> "smelly i think someone sent me malware"
> "they sent me weird .zip"
> "be careful"
> wtf i love malware
> download file
> look inside
> .txt + alternate data stream file
> ads doesnt work with 7z
> ok lol
> look inside
> 7z x "dox[.]zip" -so > payload.vbs
> winhttp request to github
> github\minecraftstuff\discordemojis.txt
> download discordemojis.txt
> look inside
> heavily obfuscated .bat file
> bonk with stick
> powershell script
> ???
> checks for av stuff
> does steganography
> downloads from ibb.co
> look inside
> quasar rat
> hides in made fonts directory in roaming
most work ive seen put into a malware payload in awhile with 2 stages and stego, usually its FAKE_GAME_INSTALLER.JPEG.EXE
Her latest songs are a little angrier and less pop since she has leaned into being a conservative. Regardless, I think it fits her well. I think it's cool she experiments with different sounds and genres.
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Yes, I know these are from stealer logs (maybe. I don't know), but sometimes it makes me giggle.
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Thank you, unknown person on the internet, for e-mailing from a compromised Argentina military e-mail.
I'm sure the Argentina government loves having to perform an internal incident response to discover it has been used to send some random dude on the internet pictures of cats.
> wake up
> take a shit
> get out of bed
> get on beep boop machine
> check the everything app
> more notifications than atoms in universe
> look inside
Today the Israel government dropped flyers over the people of Lebanon.
The Lebanese government warned citizens to not scan the QR codes because they were concerned it could be a way for the Israel government to compromise peoples phones.
I said, "WHAT THE FUCK. FREE MALWARE?" I IMMEDIATELY scanned it. I didn't even hesitate.
All it did was link me to some goofy WhatsApp thingy (I don't have WhatsApp) and it linked me to something called Unit504 on Facebook.
> be uk government
> make web portal for doing taxes
> companieshouse
> click file for different company
> enter company number
> prompt for auth
> hit back button 3 times
> authentication bypassed
> ???
> full information leaked
> can modify company details for uk gov
> ???
I have been informed I misread and used the wrong UNC number. Now people are calling me a doofus and a dumb cat (I'm not a fucking cat wtf)
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Meanwhile in Brazil: Arch Linux has to suspend access from Brazil because kids could use Arch Linux, or something, and something about pedophiles.
I actually have no idea what the politicians are even saying anymore. It's all bullshit and it's fucking over FOSS.
I'm also surprised by the lack of write ups discussing YARA internals. YARA is a very clear demonstration on how AVs and/or EDRs can perform static analysis on binaries.
It's possible people have reviewed it to learn, but simply didn't share it because it's open source, but still it's kind of unusual to me.
I saw over 9000 write ups on YARA rules, but very few explaining the internal mechanisms of YARA
what are they going to do? make a yara rule to identify yara and flag their own tools as malware?
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I'll tell you one thing right now too, and I say this with 100% confidence. Adversaries of the United States understand this is premium real estate (metaphorically speaking) and this should be acted on immediately.
If the Russian Federation or People's Republic of China can push a narrative it is of the benefit of the United States people to exit NATO, it isolates us from the global stage and (at least cybersecurity wise) is absolutely terrifying (to me, atleast). The Russian Federation and People's Republic of China can easily push slop propaganda on places like TikTok or Instagram to coerce the people into moving into cyber-isolationism.
I'm not educated on geopolitical stuff with war, or economies, but I know a little about computers and stuff.
This would be an absolute strategic failure from the United States to do this.
Threat Actors are probably shadowboxing in their underwear right now at the idea of the United States being alone
If heaven operates as a 24/7 surveillance state, this is a serious scandal, privacy violations galore, and possible human rights violation. We need to write to our representatives about this immediately
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Basically I'm a noob at this and I'm sharing what I'm doing so you can heckle me and call me a noob and hopefully not a cat
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didnt even dawn on me this was CVE-2025-8088
- n-day
- multi-staged payload
- stego usage
- quasar???
wtf lol
Hello,
I pushed the malware stuff to that malware website you sometimes visit.
It is Sunday so please spend it with the most important people in your life (your anime action figures)
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Hello,
It is time again I sync updates to malware city, the website some of you visit, and some of you don't.
Upload notes will come soon.
In the meantime, enjoy this cool clip from the latest Nicki Minaj song
Whenever someone sends me an e-mail from a compromised government e-mail, and I acknowledge it, people get silly and begin sending me e-mails from other compromised government e-mails.
Thank you, random person, for the e-mail from a compromised Brazilian government e-mail.
Big shout out to my baby boy. He'll be one years old any day now.
He has unlocked a new skill.
It's opening the refrigerator and pulling things off the bottom shelf and throwing them all over the kitchen floor
To be fair, it is 100% possible for the Israel government to have a WhatsApp exploit. I tested it from my computer and was disappointed.
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Today United States Donald J. Trump released the "Cyber Strategy for America" document. It was highlighted by FBI Director Kash Patel.
Let's take a look at it together. I'll translate it from fancy political speak into nerd speak.
Intro:
>america is cool and badass
>were strong af fr
>our hackers are schizo af
>we could be strongerer
>need corpos to work with us fr
>were fuckin shit up so nerds cant hide
>america 250 years old soon
>computers are important
Section Two:
>we made the internet
>we are the best in internet stuff
>mean nerds fuck shit up on the internet
>mean nerds pissing us off
>"im trump and im not a bitch about cyber"
>mean nerds targeting important shit online
>this is a new era of cyberspace
>lots of money online
Section Three:
>mean nerds pissing us off fr
>if we cant internet you, well physically hurt you
>he actually wrote that LOL
>other countries have shitty AI
>we have the best AI
>were gonna work with unis and companies for AI
>wont let people be censored online
>something about people censoring americans
>mean nerds will get sanctioned
>mean nerds will be memed
>mean nerds will get beat up (maybe)
>america remove more regulations on AI
>regulations slow us down
>gotta go fast af boi fr
>cybersecurity so important fr
Donald J. Trump Pillars of Action:
1. Shape Adversary Behavior
>mean nerds attacking americans and companies
>theyre innocent ppl tho
>nsa and cia given thumbs up to hack back extra
>we raising aggression
2. Promote Common Sense Regulation
>reduce cybersecurity regulation
>checklists are for losers
>regulation make companies less agile
>companies and gov need to be fast af
3. Modernize and Secure Federal Government Networks
>government computers are lame
>will make them better
>use best practices
>use "post-quantum cryptography"
>use "zero-trust architecture"
>use "cloud transition"
>will improve stuff to hunt down nerds we dont like
>will use AI for cybersecurity
4. Secure Critical Infrastructure
>critical infra support important
>energy grid important af to defend
>banks important af to defend
>hospitals important af to defend
>water plants important af to defend
>telecoms important af to defend
>datacenters important af to defend
>must defend everything important af
>stop using technology made by countries we dont like
5. Sustain Superiority in Critical and Emerging Technologies
>america will make more tech stuff
>we gonna protect what we make fr
>cryptocurrency must be secured and stuff
>we need quantum stuff
>ai mega important tho
>we need more ai for hacking and for defense
>people we dont like hack dumb and shitty ai
6. Build Talent and Capacity
>we need more nerds
>nerds are unironically super important
>need to invest in nerds
>remove "roadblocks" for nerds (???) across industry
>will invest in more nerd stuff for nerds to learn
In other news, someone published a paper today about how they were able to abuse Perplexity AI to get unlimited Claude tokens.
It turns out the researcher misunderstood Perplexity billing methods and he will be billed accordingly.
Today BleepinComputer published a story on a company named Telus Digital being compromised by a Threat Group operating under the moniker "ShinyHunters', a reference to Pokemon.
GTIG (Google Threat Intelligence Group) has been tracking ShinyHunters under the label UNC6395.
UNC6395 has been targeting enterprise organizations since at least August, 2025 by exploiting compromised OAuth tokens to gain access to company SalesForce instances. Upon successful compromise, UNC6395 attempts vertical or horizontal movement by combing through the compromised SalesForce data.
At a currently unknown time, UNC6395 successfully compromised Telus' SalesForce instance which allowed them to pivot elsewhere within the organization.
The amount of data UNC6395 claims to have compromised is astronomical. They claim to have exfiltrated over ONE PETABYTE of data (compressed as .tar.xz). While Telus has confirmed the compromise, the exfiltration of ONE PETABYTE of data indicates the compromise may have occurred weeks, possibly months, ago. Telus as of this writing has not given additional details on the compromise (more on that later).
I am unable to confirm the validity of the data, primarily because I do have the means to reliably comb through a petabyte of data. However, "snippets" and "samples" have been shared. Based off data seen, the compromised appears authentic. Here is a high-level overview of what was allegedly compromised and successfully exfiltrated.
- Employee Full Legal Name
- Employee National ID Number and/or SSN
- Telus hashed passwords, API keys, OAuth tokens
- Call record details
- Call meta data
- Telecom customer PII (First Name, Last Name, Address)
- HR records
- Agent performance records
- SalesForce accounts, contacts, leads, and records
- Financial records (ACH routing numbers, etc)
- GitHub repository access to an additional 20 organizations adjacent to Telus (20,000 internal source code projects)
- Customer and Agent call records in .wav
- 14,139 customer database instances, all containing customer PII (unspecified)
- GLEAN TELUS background check files. UNC6395 has access to FBI, RCMP, and CISA background checks.
- GLEAN TELUS confidential reports on investigations
- GLEAN TELUS confidential reports on tax filings (?)
- ... just search "GLEAN" on Google
If what UNC6395 states is true, this breach impacts approx. 230M companies across the globe. Based on information seen publicly, ... it looks bad.
However, as of this writing, Telus has not done anything other than confirm the compromise with some journalists. I suspect they're currently performing a DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response) and forming a strategy to combat this technologically, legally, logistically, and PR-wise.
Is UNC6395 telling the truth? Is this compromise as severe as it appears to be? When will TELUS provide more details? Will impacted customers be notified? Is law enforcement mad their background checks are allegedly compromised?
Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z