An epilogue 10yrs in the making sees arrests of those behind the first ransomware-as-a-service model, now fuelling today's cybercrime epidemic, and the Angler ek, which would set a technical and damaging high water mark for malvertising

Angler's downfall: https://t.co/Wogy0TUoPm https://t.co/JBDay9gRsV

— darren (@darrenpauli) August 14, 2024

Oh, man Angler... that brings back memories...

As much as I hate them for it, got to admit it was an impressive operation and really cemented my positions on ads (block them) and patching (do it, quickly).

Pretty sure they're also what finally killed off Flash; so, not all bad.

— Name_Too_Long (@Name_Too_Long) August 13, 2024

What the heap did you just spray about me, you little chunk?

— Battle Programmer Yuu (@netspooky) August 25, 2024

Excuse me? I'll have you know I graduated and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on legacy systems, with over 300 confirmed bug fixes. I am trained in Regular Expression warfare and I'm the top debugger in the entire Stack Overflow forces. You are nothing to me but just…

— sad (@software4death) August 26, 2024

BTIGhidra: Ghidra plugin to infer type information from binaries

Blog post: https://t.co/HP2iUUzw5r
Github: https://t.co/9Iiv2Ivrzh

Credits @trailofbits#reverseengineering pic.twitter.com/PgxzOStcL6

— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) August 26, 2024

#OnThisDay 1939: The BBC Monitoring Service began, with several hundred 'monitors' gathering and interpreting international news as rapidly as possible.

These images were taken in 1945 at its base in Caversham Park, where it operated from between 1943 and 2018. pic.twitter.com/lVnSoMKHjN

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) August 26, 2024

Okay but hear me out what if we turned off the computers and went outside.

— Ada Lündhé (@sc_codeUM) August 25, 2024

CashApp does the same thing. Its actually one of the best ways to dox/confirm someone’s identity lol https://t.co/PXpD7cnWVZ

— DeMarcus (@medarkus_) August 25, 2024

https://t.co/c9icH55IAW pic.twitter.com/aC50bXrlqh

— Joe Kassabian (@JoeKassabian) August 25, 2024