January 11, 2023

Using ChatGPT to Visualize Ransomware Leak Site Data

This site is really cool.

https://www.th3protocol.com/2022/ChatGPT-LeakSite-Analysis

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John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner

Love that Bowie's disguise on public transportation was to change nothing about his physical appearance and just pretend to read a Greek newspaper instead, making people assume he was a Greek dude that just happened to look a lot like David Bowie

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The summary, as far as I understand it is: DGSE had a slush fund since WW1. They invested it in some crappy company that wasn’t doing well. A crooked business man bought the company, then sold all the shares, then declared bankruptcy. DGSE lost 15 or 23 million euro. So they have cops pick him up at the airport and take him to a station where two guys threaten him, showing him pictures of his wife and kids. He says, “I’ll report you.”… and then he did. Now the ex head of DGSE has been indicted for extortion!

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/01/04/la-dgse-et-son-magot-secret-dans-les-filets-de-la-justice_6156647_3224.html

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Paul Szoldra @PaulSzoldra

NEW: A red team hacker team from the Inspector General tested the @Interior Dept. and found "outdated and ineffective" password requirements, cracking 16% of the agency's 85,000+ accounts in the first 90 minutes of testing. doioig.gov/sites/default/…

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pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” @pixelatedboat

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0xor0ne @0xor0ne

Very interesting case study of Wi-Fi stack exploitation by Gal Beniamini. (Broadcom chipsets) Part 1: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-a… Part 2: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-a… Part 3: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/10/over-a… #wifi #80211 #infosec #cybersecurity #hacking

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Virus Bulletin @virusbtn

Shusei Tomonaga reveals how JPCERT/CC automates malware analysis on the cloud, looking at: malware C2 monitoring, malware hunting using the cloud, a YARA CI/CD system, a surface analysis system on the cloud, and memory forensics on the cloud. blogs.jpcert.or.jp/en/2023/01/clo…

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mandatory@infosec.exchange @IAmMandatory

New blog post: Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/0…

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Emma Beasley🐝 @JustBeingEmma

My coffee and I used to be hot. Now, we're just bitter.

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The good news? ChatGPT will put the Russian IRA trolls out of a job. The bad news? It’ll make infinite trolls instead.

LLMs: a bleak future ahead?

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Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev

🧵🇨🇳🇷🇺 Does China distance itself from Russia because of war against Ukraine? A terrific @FT piece helps to understand how Beijing wants its policy towards Moscow to be seen in Western capitals. Spoiler alert: the real policy might be very different. Let me help to unpack it. 1/

This is some nightmare scenario. Amazing how good the source protect was.

Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev

A reminder: for quite some time before the war Team Biden tried to work with 🇨🇳 through @AmbQinGang, as @ewong reported in @nytimes, sharing intel about upcoming 🇷🇺 invasion of 🇺🇦 (@CIA was super protective of sources&methods for obvious reasons) /15 nytimes.com/2022/02/25/us/…

nytimes.comU.S. Officials Repeatedly Urged China to Help Avert War in UkraineAmericans presented Chinese officials with intelligence on Russia’s troop buildup in hopes that President Xi Jinping would step in, but were repeatedly rebuffed.

Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev

And then... "After one diplomatic exchange in December, U.S. officials got intelligence showing Beijing had shared the information with Moscow, telling 🇷🇺 that 🇺🇸 was trying to sow discord." Not sure this could have happened without a nod from Xi or at least Yang Jiechi. 16/

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China plays very good diplomacy.

Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev

This gives 🇨🇳 a slight opening to drive a wedge between 🇺🇸 and 🇪🇺, capitalizing on other disputes between them, and delay cementation of anti-China tech coalition led by the U.S. thus buying Beijing the precious time of having access to European tech&money&markets 25/

Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev

In order to create additional reasons for 🇪🇺 leaders to go to China and strike deals there, Beijing is using the 🇷🇺🇺🇦 card. It wants to create an impression that with a little bit of accommodation of 🇨🇳 by Europe, China is actually willing to do more to restrain Putin. 26/

Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev

And it seems to be working! @Bundeskanzler went to China in November, declining @EmmanuelMacron's idea to go together in order to speak in one 🇪🇺 voice. Berlin then framed the trip as effort to bring China on board addressing 🇷🇺 aggression against 🇺🇦. 27/ reuters.com/world/europe/g…

reuters.comGermany’s Scholz tests China ties with inaugural visit, to discuss UkraineGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives in China on a one-day trip on Friday, becoming the first G7 leader to visit since the start of COVID-19 and President Xi Jinping solidifying his grip on power with a third term as Communist Party general secretary.

Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev

Now @EmmanuelMacron & @GiorgiaMeloni will follow this pattern, and Beijing's subtle hints that it might be ready to put pressure on Putin help to frame these trips not as self-interested steps that affects Transatlantic unity on 🇨🇳, but as part of a noble cause of helping 🇺🇦 28/

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Taking over a dead IOT company

https://blog.kchung.co/taking-over-a-dead-iot-company/

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gatos fazendo gatices @gatinarios

blade runner 2049

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Eamon Hamilton @eamonhamilton

That’s actually pretty awesome