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‼️ A 16-year-old Linux KVM vulnerability called Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) lets a root user inside a guest VM escape to the host on Intel and AMD x86 systems, and a proof of concept that crashes hosts is already public. Canonical says patched Ubuntu kernels are still pending for all releases and recommends disabling nested virtualization in the meantime.

BREAKING: The European Parliament just passed Chat Control 1.0 A proposal to stop the new law, which will allow big tech companies to voluntarily scan all private messages, needed an absolute majority of 361 voted but received only 314 votes. As it was the last day before summer recess, many MEPs had returned to their home countries and didn’t take part in the surprise vote. Chat Control 2.0 is still being prepared. That law will make it mandatory to scan people’s private messages.

I was chit-chatting with a prolific infosec blogger today who, I think, is plotting to write some kind of hit-piece about us I think he’s actually a well-meaning guy for the most part. I’ve read some of his stories about cybercrime over the years. Anyway… He said “most people in your business are far more discreet” By that, he meant that… they post generic LinkedIn-coded slop on their internet pages and pretend that they’re actually in some kind of opaque “research focused” liminal space, where the products that they develop and sell to pay their rent aren’t actually used for the purpose of hacking into the computers of terrorists and various other degenerate f*ckups around the world. But he’s right. Most of the other firms are more “discreet”. They do this mostly to avoid the ire of angry libtard bloggers and skepticism among the.. let’s just say.. “blue haired” members of this community. Most of them are very shy about the fact that they produce systems that are used to put warheads on the foreheads of sick animals who are intent on savagely killing civilians. Civilians like your mom or sister or daughter. Whether those civilians are in New York or London or Tel Aviv or Kyiv. By contrast, we aren’t shy about this. We are very open and honest about the fact that we exist for the purpose of creating turnkey tools that enable the incredible patriots in our intelligence community to understand, hamper, and even, in some cases, eliminate, the most dogged enemies of Western Civilization. And for this, we feel zero shame . Our approach comes with some tradeoffs. The downsides of which we address through selling our product in white-labeled form through many of our great partners, not to mention various other ways and means. But the upsides are also significant. Most importantly: We attract the very best mission-focused talent. Many of the best people in offensive cyber aren’t a part of the “blue hair” crowd. Many of them don’t feel an affinity with terrorists. A lot of them got into this stuff after they were sealed out of other areas of tech, because they didn’t fit in with the wannabe-snowden crowd. As a result of our approach, we have been able to attract people that are talented beyond what you can even imagine. We are very, very proud of what we build.

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> Peter Stokes > Scattered Spider guy > Arrested > Microsoft helps FBI > Read court documents > Page 12 > Microsoft tracks Stokes from GDID > Microsoft Global Device Identifier (GDID) > Stokes used Windows > Page 34 > GDID assigned to each OS install > GDID unique to each device > GDID only change if OS wiped > Stokes GDID 6755467234350028 > GDID reported internet activity to Microsoft > GDID showed Stokes using Ngrok > GDID reported Stokes IP address > GDID showed Stokes web activity > GDID showed timestamps of web activity > GDID mapped with video game activity > GDID showed games played > GDID undocumented > GDID only mentioned in one MSDN document > Azure UCDOStatus > Azure Monitor Logging