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May 1, 2024

May 1, 2024

May 1, 2024

Happy May Day!


LABScon23 Replay | From Vulkan to Ryazan – Investigative Reporting from the Frontlines of Infosec, by @hatr https://t.co/lLr0c4x0QZ

Video: https://t.co/AbXKGVNERt

— SentinelLabs (@LabsSentinel) April 30, 2024


TIL of the https://t.co/zVJDPNh4w3 traceroute pic.twitter.com/Gl2AgisXrD

— April King 🌀 (@CubicleApril) April 30, 2024


420 Byte Self-Replicating UEFI App (Binary Golf Grand Prix)
Interesting reading!https://t.co/8zh2evi8qM#uefi #infosec pic.twitter.com/ztci1E0sQB

— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) April 30, 2024


So apparently if someone knows / guesses the name of your S3 bucket - even if it's private (!) - they can just bankrupt you by sending infinite PUT requests and there is nothing you can do about it.
> requests get rejected
> but AWS still counts it as a write operation against… pic.twitter.com/oFavRPau2N

— Laura Wendel (@Lauramaywendel) April 29, 2024


'U' is a handy character because its hex code is 0x55, which is 01010101 in binary.
This makes it really easy to test baud rates for serial cause the electrons go:

_-_-_-_-

I expect everyone following me already knows this (if you didn't, you can just lie) pic.twitter.com/ZlnPrKg6TE

— Rue Mohr (@RueNahcMohr) May 1, 2024


NEW: The ransomware gang that hacked into U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare used a set of stolen credentials to remotely access company systems.

These systems were not protected by MFA, according to the CEO of its parent company UnitedHealth.https://t.co/9XaBJO7n6R

— Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (@lorenzofb) April 30, 2024


Nobody is talking about James Mickens' (https://t.co/YaPf2RYmov) one-man metal band. https://t.co/iVgw2cKT8b

— Steve Weis (@sweis) April 30, 2024


Thank you to everyone who brought this article to our attention. We agree that customers should not have to pay for unauthorized requests that they did not initiate. We’ll have more to share on exactly how we’ll help prevent these charges shortly.#AWS #S3

How an empty S3…

— Jeff Barr ☁️ (@jeffbarr) April 30, 2024


https://t.co/xsI8cFmVWx Little experiment about reusing Windows Defender built-in unpackers, mostly for fun (based on the very useful @taviso's loadlibrary) pic.twitter.com/VcSAAqoRiL

— Ajax (@commial) April 30, 2024

Even if it works for some (old) commercial packers, it seems that nowadays malware authors prefer one-time & custom packers... So likely not that useful, but still fun to make 🤷

— Ajax (@commial) April 30, 2024


I published a step by step guide on using Windows event logs to hunt for malware trying to steal sensitive data from browsers e.g. cookies, passwords etc. https://t.co/9a3l56dDJo #DFIR Hope it's useful! pic.twitter.com/kbqIBFsrli

— Will Harris (@parityzero) April 30, 2024


"If services are used through pseudonyms, VPNs, encryption or without an account, they'll score worse on the risk scale, and will be more likely to be served a detection order mandating scanning of all communications content. Same applies if a service allows users to use crypto" https://t.co/RgFSNU059M

— RainDogDance  (@RainDogDance) April 30, 2024

The EU is demonizing essential privacy tools like VPNs, Signal, TOR, & encrypted email services like Tutanota & ProtonMail. They also plan to monitor cryptocurrency use, so public chain users should be aware! pic.twitter.com/kCNCfj70ku

— Csilla Brimer ❤️‍🔥🗽🆙 (@CryptoTweetie) April 29, 2024

Leak: EU governments double down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services with chat control bulk scanning orders – Patrick Breyer

An updated version of the methodology to be used in the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, leaked by the news portal Contexte, reveals more details on the approach pursued by the Belgian Council Presidency: The text doubles-down on services that allow people to protect themselves. If services are used t


Lennart Poettering intends to replace "sudo" with systemd's run0. Here's a quick PoC to demonstrate root permission hijacking by exploiting the fact "systemd-run" (the basis of uid0/run0, the sudo replacer) creates a user owned pty for communication with the new "root" process. pic.twitter.com/yS2lB7wrE0

— hackerfantastic.x (@hackerfantastic) May 1, 2024


Just unveiled today at the Beijing auto show by Dongfeng Motors.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if they sell more of their knockoffs than Tesla does of the real thing? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/aZCK1SJfMT

— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 30, 2024


Policy people: should we make it illegal to pay ransoms?

Hospitals: you should blow up Russia.

I want to emphasize something here:
Yes, this is the industry group that represents U.S. hospitals actually advocating for the U.S. gov to use kinetic action against ransomware criminals in Russia/etc.
No real doubt.

This is how you say that in U.S. policymaking language: https://t.co/dSJrG8bAK0 pic.twitter.com/3BOktUeI2A

— Brian in Pittsburgh (@arekfurt) April 30, 2024

ICYMI: On Monday the American Hospitals Association yet again came out against imposition of any cybersecurity regs that might affect hospitals.
However, it is 100% in favor of the US gov making liberal use of the IC and military vs groups in RU/CN/NK.😄https://t.co/CR9IXSDV6W pic.twitter.com/FGbfwXWn2E

— Brian in Pittsburgh (@arekfurt) April 30, 2024


Why I'm resigning from The Intercepthttps://t.co/LwKc7OTC7U

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 30, 2024


Decided to publish PPPwn early. The first PlayStation 4 Kernel RCE. Supporting FWs upto 11.00.https://t.co/INayQSp8fL pic.twitter.com/xhj2jepsY7

— Andy Nguyen (@theflow0) April 30, 2024


Android greybox fuzzing with AFL++ Frida mode https://t.co/dJrBrJB3sy

— b33f | 🇺🇦✊ (@FuzzySec) April 30, 2024


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