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Two Australian TeamPCP members were arrested today.
Here's the arrest footage:
Arrest of 23 year old in Mandurah.
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🚨 MAJOR DISRUPTION: Google disrupted the NetNut residential proxy network, which enrolled ~2M home devices into its botnet.
We observed 316 distinct threat clusters—cybercrime and espionage groups—using the network to mask activity and launch password spray attacks.
📋 goo.gle/44GKDmL
Ben retweeted
New giveaway alert
Our friends at @synthient wanted to giveaway some goodies for you nerds
2x Synthient Researcher Accounts - $40k
4x Claude Pro 1 Year Subscriptions - $400
6x Twitter Premium 1 Year Subscriptions - $600
If you want to enter this giveaway please do the following
Like the post, Comment what you want and why, and follow both @synthient and @vxgiveaways
Goodluck to all, picking winners next week
Ben retweeted
It's amazing to see the impact that one *student* can have on the world.
Super excited to see where Ben and Synthient go. The work this kid is publishing is so impressive.
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. A college student armed with a cat meme helped solve the mystery. on.wsj.com/3O3sxqz
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A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. A college student armed with a cat meme helped solve the mystery. on.wsj.com/3O3sxqz
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A routine all you can eat sushi lock in session and @deobfuscately casually mentions he got featured in an article…
>Its a full feature expo in WSJ
>used cat memes to socially engineer
>reverse engineered their backdooor
>pivoted that into mapping ~2M infected res proxy devices
>caught it midterms week
>notified relevant authorities
>U.S DoJ brings charges and shouts him out
>kimwolf gets kneecapped
>back to spicy tuna like nothing happened
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. A college student armed with a cat meme helped solve the mystery. on.wsj.com/3O3sxqz
Ben retweeted
New Research Piece: Socks5Systemz: Lives On
Socks5Systemz lives on as ProxyBox, infecting Windows devices via pirated software to build a 31K+ IP address proxy network targeting enterprise financial sectors.
synthient.com/blog/proxybox-…
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Synthient Helps Disrupt World's Largest DDoS Botnet
The U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with international law enforcement, has announced a major operation to disrupt the infrastructure of four of the world’s largest IoT botnets, including Aisuru and Kimwolf. Together, these botnets hijacked over three million devices worldwide to launch record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
The Kimwolf botnet specifically targeted devices traditionally firewalled from the broader internet, enslaving them to act as proxy traffic for criminal networks and launch attacks reaching up to 30 Terabits per second.
Synthient is proud to have contributed to the DOJ's efforts. By identifying active exploitation, sharing malware samples, and coordinating disclosures with impacted parties, we helped neutralize this threat. We remain dedicated to making the web a safer place and are grateful to have played a role in this historic takedown.
Link: justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/autho…
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I have said this quite a few times, but there is this misconception that the scanning engines on VT tell you whether the AV product detects the malware.
They do not.
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Google’s Threat Intelligence Team just disrupted one of the largest residential proxy network, IPIDEA.
Read more: cloud.google.com/blog/topics…
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Kimwolf Android botnet abuses residential proxies to infect internal devices - @billtoulas
bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
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New research by my friend @deobfuscately please show him love, it’s an update on the Aisuru botnet story and I know you guys will enjoy it
krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/…
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#IPCola Proxy service and how it connects to the larger Proxy Ecosystem. Great research by my friend @deobfuscately :)
synthient.com/blog/ipcola-a-…
A look into the internals behind a large-scale proxy operation, from the sourcing of IPs to the platform itself. How proxy providers utilize everything from TV boxes to free software for building out a pool of unique proxies.
