• до скорого, .ru

    до скорого, .ru

    This may be the last time you see a post from us from this top-level domain. Several long years ago, we launched this website to provide a platform for “admiration” of the jovial ursine activities of a set of state-sponsored threat actors and their rent-a-hacker colleagues, and to attract others who would like to contribute…

  • Gogol it (some gogolesque notes on legitimate cloud service abuse)

    Gogol it (some gogolesque notes on legitimate cloud service abuse)

    Does that traffic to commercial public cloud services and web-based applications seem legitimate to you? Bad actors are abusing the shit out of cloud services: Google Docs, Google Forms, Discord, and others, concealing their badness in TLS and the reputation of big cloud brands. This post is an ongoing notebook on both found abuses of…

  • BlueSky Scammers: a running tally

    Previously, I’ve done a great deal of scam threat hunting on X (Twitter, referred to hence as Xitter). But with the mass migration of social media users from Xitter to BlueSky, I’ve seen a similar mass migration of scam artists, cybercriminals and other digital opportunists. I’ve been documenting some of those cases on BlueSky itself,…

  • Unpatched Veeam and VPNs leveraged in recent ransomware attacks.

    Veeam CVE-2024-40711 combined with vulnerable VPNs and remote access gateways equals ransomware attacks against a wide variety of organizations with … Unpatched Veeam and VPNs leveraged in recent ransomware attacks.

  • America ≈ Dhalgren

    There are many times I wake up and feel like I’m living in a Samuel R. Delany novel. America sometimes seems to traverse history as a flat spiral, … America ≈ Dhalgren

  • Fin de circle

    Today, my brother’s dog passed away after nearly 20 years of life, and over 10 years after my brother. She was the ward of my parents until her passing, let go as her body failed her in a cascade of different ways as happens with dogs who live that long. There’s some extra pain with…

  • As rational a rant as I can muster about the 2022 elections

    As rational a rant as I can muster about the 2022 elections

    Please don’t vote for the kleptomaniacal GOP.