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🥈 @kalmarunionenDM ends 2025 as the 2nd best CTF team in the world! That makes it three years in a row in the global top 3: - 2023: #3 - 2024: #1 - 2025: #2 Staying up here is hard. The field keeps getting sharper, the big CTFs keep getting harder (LLMs are luckily still struggling with some types of challenges), and December is always brutal. We fought until the very end and are proud of how the season played out. Huge respect to @r3kapig for an insanely strong year and a well-earned #1 - that was some serious consistency across the toughest events. For us, this season had a bit of everything: long nights, on-site + remote meetups, clutch moments, mistakes, recoveries, and a lot of learning. Older players still sweating, newer players stepping up, and the team as a whole getting better every event. Thanks to everyone for making every weekend harder than planned - here’s to 2026! #CTF #Hacking #Kalmarunionen

@vxunderground Beeeeeeeeeg Certified Red Team Expert (CRTE)

Big giveaway. - (x3) Certified Red Team Expert (CRTE) - (x3) Certified by Altered Security Red Team Professional for Azure (CARTP) - (x10) Malware Analysis for Hedgehogs Bundle CTRE and CARTP sponsored by @nikhil_mitt Malware Analysis sponsored by @struppigel Leave a comment below on what you'd like. Winners chosen in 24 hours.

Giveaway. @nikhil_mitt has sponsored THREE (x3) CRTP (Certified Red Team Professional) vouchers. - 30 day on-demand course - Attack & Defend labs - Lab access Comment below for a chance to win. Winners selected in 24 hours. Pic unrelated

@vxunderground @TorGuard What’s the password to decrypt the drive? /j

Giveaway. @TorGuard has sponsored a vx-underground harddrive (complete collection) giveaway. If you're the selected winner I will mail you an external harddrive with everything from vx-underground. As a bonus, I will also throw in some TorGuard stickers. What you will get: - 45,000,000+- malware samples - 90,000+- malware papers - 10,000+ malware builders - All vx-underground artwork - Lots of cat pictures - TorGuard stickers How to enter: - Follow @TorGuard on Xitter - Leave a comment below A winner will be selected in 24 hours. tl;dr look inside, malware

@vxunderground @silascutler @WinRAR_RARLAB IIRC they don’t sell the physical copies anymore, so huge W with this giveaway. The WinRAR bag is pretty neat tho

Giveaway. @silascutler has sponsored a giveaway of a physical copy of WinRAR (@WinRAR_RARLAB) I have no idea what this means because I didn't know WinRAR had physical copies. But, this is very cool and very badass. Comment below for a chance to win.

@gegrgtezrze Thanks for the mousepad ❤️

They won the finals. Good job gamers. I don't want to say they won thanks to the mousepad we lent to them but I think that's why.

@vxunderground @vivek_naskar For the Bandwidth Alliance partnership with Cloudflare they only allow free egress up to the amount of data stored. Cloudflare has conveniently listed all their partners and how much free egress each partner gives on their Bandwidth Alliance page. Backblaze has no limit (iirc).

@vivek_naskar It violates our hosting providers data usage terms of service. We use Wasabi

2025 is not cool and it is not badass. We're currently having a dispute with our hosting provider. We have 23TB of storage, 75TB egress, and 30TB cached from Cloudflare. They do not like us consuming so much stuff

@vxunderground @whid_ninja Hell yeah, hardware hacking

Hello, we're doing a giveaway because we missed 1 giveaway from December. Our friend @whid_ninja hooked us up with their Offensive Hardware Hacking Training course. This is self-paced and comes with an exam voucher. It also comes with a hardware hacking kit and other cool gadgets. Using this course requires you signing an NDA with WhidNinja, you have to pinky promise not to leak the material, or something. See subsequent post for more details. If you want to become a cool and badass hardware hacking nerd, leave a comment below for a chance to win. - Winners will be selected randomly in the next 24 hours. - We will DM winners. - If you do not confirm your win in 24 hours a new winner will be selected - If your DMs are closed, you automatically forfeit your prize

@kalmarunionenDM is the #1 CTF team in the world. We climbed from 66th in 2020 on @CTFtime to 1st in 2024, thanks to late nights, fierce competitions, and an incredible team spirit. We never stopped trying harder while having fun. On to more triumphs in 2025! #CTF #Hacking

During a promotional shoot for the Netflix series Squid Game at a subway station in Turkey, one player was eliminated before the game even started.

@vxunderground Man’s on a mission to keep the holiday spirit going in the name of lols

@vxunderground Malware?! Malware is following me everywhere I go! I cannot escape it, it is hunting me - but it doesn’t know that we are also hunting and collecting it! They called us crazy and deranged, but time will tell! Time will tell! Malware is everywhere!

It's all gone now. If you followed for the money, you can unfollow now. If you followed for pseudo-schizophrenic malware collecting and deranged online behavior, we're back.

@vxunderground Very cool, thank you smelly smellington

Hello, it is our official very last giveaway. We made it. For our last giveaway we are doing - $500 in Bitcoin - $100 in Etherium - $500 in cash (x2) via PayPal We ended up throwing some cash at other people behind the scenes who we believe genuinely needed it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of really great people who need money and are down on their luck. It has been a pleasure to give back to so many wonderful people. We wish we had more money, but we don't. We aren't rich. We genuinely wish we had more money to distribute. - Winners will be selected randomly in the next 24 hours. - We will DM winners. - If you do not confirm your win in 24 hours a new winner will be selected - If your DMs are closed, you automatically forfeit your prize Thank you everyone for participating, this is Twisted Metal (old ass reference to a PlayStation 1 game, ignore this part). Love, - smelly smellington

@vxunderground @SEKTOR7net Likely too advanced for me, but one do be a hardcore nerd

Hello, we're now on our final giveaways. Giveaway 4 of 4 today. (omg it's over, sort of) Our friends at @SEKTOR7net hooked us up with 3 vouchers for their RED TEAM Operator: Malware Development Advanced - Vol.1 course. If you think you're a hardcore nerd, and want to hardcore nerd malware, leave a comment below. - Winners will be selected randomly in the next 24 hours. - We will DM winners. - If you do not confirm your win in 24 hours a new winner will be selected - If your DMs are closed, you automatically forfeit your prize

@vxunderground @SEKTOR7net Even more maldev lesgo

Hello, we're now on our final giveaways. Giveaway 3 of 4 today. Our friends from @SEKTOR7net hooked us up with 3 vouchers for their RED TEAM Operator: Malware Development Intermediate Course. If you're familiar with malware stuff, but want to sharpen your malware coding skillset, or something, leave a comment below - Winners will be selected randomly in the next 24 hours. - We will DM winners. - If you do not confirm your win in 24 hours a new winner will be selected - If your DMs are closed, you automatically forfeit your prize

@vxunderground @SEKTOR7net Maldev lesgoo

Hello, we're now on our final giveaways. Giveaway 2 of 4 today. Our friends at @SEKTOR7net hooked us up with RED TEAM Operator: Malware Development Essentials Course (x4). If you're a noob with malware, but can code a little, leave a comment below to learn more about malware development. - Winners will be selected randomly in the next 24 hours. - We will DM winners. - If you do not confirm your win in 24 hours a new winner will be selected - If your DMs are closed, you automatically forfeit your prize

@vxunderground @AlteredSecurity

Hello, we're now on our final giveaways. Giveaway 1 of 4 today. Our friends at @AlteredSecurity hooked us up with 3 vouchers for their Certified Red Team Expert course. If you wanna red team and hack, or something, leave a comment below. - Winners will be selected randomly in the next 24 hours. - We will DM winners. - If you do not confirm your win in 24 hours a new winner will be selected - If your DMs are closed, you automatically forfeit your prize

Today we were struck by tragedy. With heavy, and heartbroken, hearts we are saddened to share we are all out of dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. Giveaway selections and the final item giveaways with resume after this situation is addressed. Thanks,

@uwunetes The only MacOS app that I’ve truly out-loud said WTF to the pricing of is Parallels Desktop. Especially since I also know quite a lot of people who are paying for it. Smh for removing Boot Camp… at least VMware Fusion is free (for now)?

"guys if you want (bare minimum feature) on macos, check this out!" $100 / year what the hell is wrong with u people

@vmfunc Truly the next level of matching profile pictures, how come I never thought of this

"if you’re not being gay on the computer then alan turing died for nothing"