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January 20, 2025

January 20, 2025

January 20, 2025

Weekend (2025) papers:

QMSan: Efficiently Detecting Uninitialized Memory Errors During Fuzzinghttps://t.co/riwZuOMqFi

Invivo Fuzzing by Amplifying Actual Executions https://t.co/16VBtjeNms

DUMPLING: Fine-grained Differential
JavaScript Engine Fuzzinghttps://t.co/6Q2JSeXZAN

— Meysam (@R00tkitSMM) January 19, 2025


Introducing DFIR Labs: A 24-challenge series by internationally acclaimed CTF authors, tailored for professionals, researchers and students. Master DFIR, Malware Analysis and Threat Hunting through challenges designed to push your expertise to new heightshttps://t.co/6lgoxMDt8f pic.twitter.com/6hDBbmUlKf

— Nithin Chenthur Prabhu (@Azr43lKn1ght) January 19, 2025


⚠️ Developers, please be careful when installing Homebrew.

Google is serving sponsored links to a Homebrew site clone that has a cURL command to malware. The URL for this site is one letter different than the official site. pic.twitter.com/TTpWRfqGWo

— Ryan Chenkie (@ryanchenkie) January 18, 2025


fasterthanlime 🌌: "oh my god. OH my god. https://obsproject.com/blo…" - Hachyderm.io

Attached: 1 image oh my god. OH my god. https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-hybrid-mp4


Anyway what are you guys up to today https://t.co/LkUFskzAio

— Lolo (@LolOverruled) January 19, 2025

I assumed people would be upset but did not anticipate them firebombing a politician’s office lol pic.twitter.com/0bkIim3I47

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) January 19, 2025


I've published a new story regarding the various ways DrugHub a #DarkWeb Marketplace has failed.https://t.co/LmtBBAAHft

— Evil Rabbit Security Inc. (@EvilRabbitSec) January 18, 2025


"We've reduced our support load by 99.9% using AI"

In reality... your customer can't get ANY support now

I'm getting tired of these terrible AI bot rollouts...

Example: pic.twitter.com/QdAUzbDXA9

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) January 19, 2025


This is a reminder to everyone that your malware payload does not need to be ultra-1337 for it to be effective or evasive.

In a bit of irony, the more sophisticated you try to make your malware be, more the IOCs you're introducing into your code base.

The goal is to write… pic.twitter.com/xaOVY88h3a

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) January 20, 2025


Pouring one out for the homies who had weeks of shit posts lined up memeing the death of TikTok pic.twitter.com/vxvXko348x

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) January 19, 2025


Tik Tok boosted negative videos of US soldiers disparaging our military, part of the reason for the bipartisan ban. Now we have a bizarre US military migration to another CCP platform. The DoD's social media policy has been disjointed and confusing, failing to differentiate… https://t.co/jzf1M0JYv1

— Owen West (@OwenWest91) January 19, 2025


HUMINT Research: Full article: Source Handler perceptions of the interviewing processes employed with informants https://t.co/ND6IvnRpdY

— Covert Intel and Operations (@covert_intel) January 19, 2025


i’d recommend reading the “monolith” paper on real-time recommendation systems by bytedance engineers if you want to understand how the algorithm works from the horses mouth.

— arman (@armankhon) January 19, 2025

paper: https://t.co/ykVedMbu7r

— arman (@armankhon) January 19, 2025

GitHub - bytedance/monolith: A Lightweight Recommendation System

A Lightweight Recommendation System. Contribute to bytedance/monolith development by creating an account on GitHub.


HUMINT Research: FIREPLACES And Informant Motivation - what motivates an agent / informant to cooperate with intelligence or law enforcement agencies?(and no, it’s not as simple as M.I.C.E.) https://t.co/YqvscvGwzt

— Covert Intel and Operations (@covert_intel) January 19, 2025

FIREPLACES And Informant Motivation

​​​​​​​A new framework has been devised to help informant handlers better identify motivations. [Updated May 2024]


DPRK puts out one of the cleanest malicious bash scripts youll ever see. readability+++
7a45e4614662081bf300c897b5e4de212e41bf8ed53762a5e4d455eaee983a6a pic.twitter.com/UCRbSgbgC7

— StrikeReady Labs (@StrikeReadyLabs) January 17, 2025


Apparently XHS’s translation function used AI and is so seriously good that it’s able to translate emojis and Chinese internet memes. So basically RedNote was able to not only implement translation in a few days but also did a brilliant job at it.

— Beyond reasonable doubt (@BN9195) January 19, 2025


More than 100 audit reports (🤯) of Solana projects conducted by @osec_io are available for reading here👇https://t.co/tKVBJ4BgVJ

You'll also find ~20 Cosmos reports, and some other chains

Don't miss that opportunity to bookmark it, you'll probably find it useful some day 🫡

— InfectedCrypto (@InfectedCrypto) January 19, 2025


Wow, this is huge. I just tried it myself with a foreign phone number (you can apparently choose any country, see screenshot) and it's true: you can now join Douyin - the Chinese version of TikTok - as an international user.

Which means the Great Firewall is coming down in the… https://t.co/RDqSvlWBHs pic.twitter.com/8DVAjKtUfh

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 19, 2025


Kevin Beaumont: "FortiGate have a blog out: https://www.fortinet.…" - Cyberplace

FortiGate have a blog out: https://www.fortinet.com/blog/psirt-blogs/analysis-of-threat-actor-data-posting It’s essentially the same as my blog - but in corporate 🤣 It plays heavily on the ‘this is old data’ angle and says you’ll be fine as long as you rotated credentials. Sure, somebody obtained all your firewall rules.. but that’s okay.. right. ✅



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