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July 24, 2025

July 24, 2025

Introducing Loki, a software obfuscation approach designed to withstand all known automated deobfuscation attacks.

This method efficiently combines multiple techniques, including a novel approach to synthesize formally verified expressions of arbitrary complexity.

Furthermore,… pic.twitter.com/wqHqPFRaee

— SEKTOR7 Institute (@SEKTOR7net) July 23, 2025


this part is brutal. https://t.co/KSO0Q6ejjD pic.twitter.com/lE2bayXDRr

— J⩜⃝mie Williams (@jamieantisocial) July 23, 2025

🧠 Read our first blog post to learn about the threat: https://t.co/5MVKYFGUqG

— Mandiant (part of Google Cloud) (@Mandiant) July 23, 2025

🛡️ Then read the next blog post to learn how to defend: https://t.co/efUNTCtR7F

— Mandiant (part of Google Cloud) (@Mandiant) July 23, 2025


https://bindinghook.com/articles-hooked-on-trends/china-is-using-cyber-attribution-to-pressure-taiwan/


Hey @Snowden heard you were good at this

Help out? https://t.co/ieYMIonCN8

— UwU Underground (@uwu_underground) July 22, 2025


Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent

The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.


Grief and the HUMINT Operator, the Personal Toll of Covert Intelligence Operations - C. Constantin Poindexter Salcedo

It’s not all James Bond and Jason Bourne. The good guy doesn't always win in the end. Covert work, more specifically covert human intelligence (HUMINT) operations are the most psychologically and morally demanding forms of spying. OSINT and keyboard collectors don’t feel the grief of an intelligence officer in the field. Case officers recruit, develop,


Black Mass Volume III is available for free as a PDF and for sale as a physical copy on Amazon

Locations available: US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, SE, JP, CA, AU

Subsequent post contains link to US Amazon link. Use your countries Amazon domain to buy the book.

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) July 23, 2025

Purchase link: https://t.co/uN8VIbC9aq

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) July 23, 2025

https://mini-01-s3.vx-underground.org/samples/Papers/Other/VXUG%20Zines/2025-07-22%20-%20Black%20Mass%20Volume%20III.pdf2025-07-22 - Black Mass Volume III.pdf


someone who is good at memory management please help me budget this. my family is dying pic.twitter.com/x2FTZ9rIJm

— Teak Awl (@tikalteacall) July 23, 2025


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