Dev Lakhan, CC, eJPT

Recently accomplished the @ine eJPT Junior Penetration Tester certification. This is my second certification after receiving the @ISC2 CC late last year. It has been a personal struggle but one by one I’m making it happen to become an ethical hacker and purple teamer.

@surim0n toronto

toronto has a lot of 🇨🇦 founders and no group chat. fixing that. slack/whatsapp group for people building. share progress, and most importantly UNBLOCK each other first happy hour once there's enough of us. what you also get: office hours from a claude & cognition ambassador reply "toronto"

@vxunderground I love dll’s so much I put dll’s inside dll’s

"Hey smelly, I work for (company), we had a threat actor phish an employee and use ScreenConnect to get access to their computer. The Threat Actor then dropped a .exe on the computer. Our AV/EDR stopped it, but we don't know what it is. Do you want to see?" > yes, absolutely, give me goopies > give malware > download > look inside > position independent c code > points to section of memory > xor'd several times > un-xor's thingie in memory > creates process of random thingie > pauses process of random thinie > hollows out process > puts goopies it extracted from itself into it > resumes process > lol process hollowing from embedded payload > payload not in .exe section > payload in .rdata mixed with other stuff > omg w/e fine, make me work > run the goopie > bonk with stick > find thingie it hollowed out > grab the magic goop from it > yay > look inside > another .exe > ok, .exe has .exe hidden inside, runs random .exe and puts secret .exe inside it > look at secret .exe thingie > c#.net .exe > ok lol > look inside > has hidden .exe inside it > omfg why bro are you doing this to me > pull .exe out of hidden .exe (im on secret .exe two now) > dies > base64 encoded the .exe internally > omfg why bro > base64 decode second secret .exe internally > get the goopies > second .exe is actually .dll > heavily obfuscated c#.net > really annoying me now > check virustotal > second mystery .exe (actually .dll) never seen before > look inside more > sniff sniff > sniff sniff > PURE-RAT > attributed to suspected Vietnamese Threat Actor group > matches known tactics, techniques, and procedures of group > matches details from Trellix and Huntress > group still evolving > went from noobs to doing p good malware My Brother in Christ, your organization is (probably) being targeted by a known Vietnamese Threat Group

The worst thing about taking time to upskill is that I’m always afraid I’m missing opportunities.

I have done so much reading into the architectural side of a local LLM solution that I thought the microwave said Q4_K for a sec.

@Rafe1662942 @prestonjbyrne

@prestonjbyrne This is a slur on British public servants and I demand you retract it

“This is undoubtedly a test case for global regulatory overreach. Without a disastrous ban on VPN use in the UK the [Online Safety Act] regulatory regime is practically unworkable.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

@curioushaggis @prestonjbyrne You’ve said “the site can just be switched off in the UK”. This is incorrect. Access to the site by a network connection controlled by an internet provider who blocks said site does not mean the site is ‘switched off’. The site remains live on the Internet.

@prestonjbyrne I’m not sure how you haven’t grasped that this is what I’ve just said 🤦‍♂️

Hi, I'm their lawyer. It will be a cold day in Hell before my client pays that fine. Ofcom won't be collecting it unless they're prepared to land ground troops in America, overthrow our government, and rescind our constitutional order by force. Hope that helps!

@vxunderground Can I join the talk even if I don’t go to the university? I want to listen to cat.

Dear people living in Brazil, I have been invited to speak at some University there. It will be online. We are currently negotiating my extremely high compensation request ($20 for some pizza). I will probably schizo rant about pill addiction, reverse engineering malware without using a VM, and my experiences with dealing with terrorists (I send them pictures of cats). I'll share more details soon.

the US. A 1.5B bailout for Canadians however, that will be a tough sell. Thousands to tens of thousands of Canadians would lose their jobs. As would tens of thousands of Americans. But remember, the economies of scale are not within Canada’s favour.

The social problems a proposed ban could create, as domestic producers will try to compete and thus drive domestic pricing down, are another problem all together that I fear we haven’t truly internalized. Who’s going to bail out the producers? A 0.5B bailout is nothing for

The US exports about half a billion of alcoholic beverages to Canada, per annum Canada exports one point five billion of alcoholic beverages to USA per annum Domestic US market: 300B Canada: 26B 1.5/26 vs 0.5/300… Canada’s alcohol industry would hurt badly if banned.

@asha_shar Based move keeping the studios. My Xbox Series X Halo Infinite edition is starving for good games.

This is an important email I sent today to all employees at XBOX: Team, We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I've made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale. I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today's decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication. Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3–10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX. First, we will reset our content portfolio. Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision. Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options. We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions. In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX. Second, we will reset our platform. We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify. We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend. Third, we are resetting how we operate. As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done. For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results. Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX's history. We wish him all the best. These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we've seen before. This year, we'll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we'll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates. I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027. History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability. We will not be one of them. Asha

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claude is down ohhnoesss guess i have to configure this router BY MEMORY 😱

You don’t understand, prices can’t go down geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/u…

@kamikaz1_k @geohotarchive Picture an environment where even failure results in number go up.

@geohotarchive I actually don’t understand though.