Bogdan Botezatu

@RaphaelWimmer @hatr You are right and i'm not challenging the cell. But whoever was behind the attack aimed at efectively and synchronously taking out Hamas folks. Burns and injury look like a slap on the wrist in comparison.

@bbotezatu @hatr Quite a few people have been severely wounded by 18650 batteries exploding in their pockets in the past. However, yes, the explosions are not deadly in most cases. I wonder know why the attackers chose to run this operation now and not as part of some parallel attack.

@RaphaelWimmer @hatr Not saying that i'd love to be anywhere near a 2450 mAh when it bursts into flames, but i'd doubt its effectiveness in killing adversaries following a sophisticated exploit.

@RaphaelWimmer @hatr Ugh, I guess that 30 amps could indeed make a lot of things burst into flames, and then dissolve in a cloud of gas. However, 18650 has a nominal capacity of 2450 mAh, which is slightly on the large side of an AA cell.

Here are the pagers that survived to date and the batteries they use. None of them have Li-ion cells built in. Apollo Gold - 1xAAA Alkaline s.QUAD X15/X35 - 1x AA Alkaline Unication G1 - NIMH AAA 1000mAH Suntelecom ST800 - AAA Alkaline Motorola Advisor Elite - AA Alkaline 2/2

Hacked pagers and phones don't randomly explode unless they are already attached to a nice ball of Semtex. Worst case, Li-ion batteries first catch on fire, then they go kaboom. 1/2

баня - a strong Russian word whose current phonetic spelling would be [bæn jə]. I’ll see myself out, thanks.

New variant of popular macOS stealer AMOS shares some features with the RustDoor Backdoor. More info and IoC list in the blog post. bitdefender.com/blog/labs/when…

Radu Tudorica, Security Researcher at @Bitdefender, examines the Google Credential Provider for Windows, GCPW, taking advantage of it to achieve lateral movement from local to cloud.

Hey, @ResortData - we've been trying to reach you regarding several security issues in IRMNg - can you please get back to us?

Abusing the Ad Network – Threat Actors Now Hacking into Companies via Search (more info and indicators of compromise on the blog )bitdefender.com/blog/labs/abus…

Infected #Minecraft Mods Lead to Multi-Stage, Multi-Platform #Infostealer #Malware. More on the blog. bitdefender.com/blog/labs/infe…

Great news! Bitdefender's @CatalinCosoi and @bbotezatu were featured in @NatGeoTV's Trafficked S3 E7 - Cyber Pirates. On a mission to understand how personal and financial data is stolen, @MarianaVZ interviewed Bitdefender experts.

@Mitesh_Nandu @BitdefenderLabs V stands for "version". Gand Crab had 5 major versions named v1 through v5. We are able to decrypt v1, v4, v5, v5.1 and v5.2. v2 & v3 were short-lived and we still cannot decrypt them.

@bbotezatu @BitdefenderLabs You can decrypt V1,V2,V4, is there any correlation between them or hackers just name it in V series?

@BitdefenderLabs @bbotezatu Can we make decryptor for #GandcrabV3 using #ChatGPT ?

@Jaymzu I'm speechless :!q!!!

I am root!

New phishing campaign uses copycat #ChatGPT platform to swindle eager investors - more on the blog: bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsec…

Good news! We now have a decryptor for MortalKombat #ransomware. More info and download link on the blog. bitdefender.com/blog/labs/bitd… #dontpay #nomoreransom

CVE-2022-47966 is actively being exploited in targeted attacks. Patch now (and read more about it after that on Bitdefender Labs) bitdefender.com/blog/labs/weap…

Aw shucks.

Opportunistic threat actors are now targeting unpatched VMware ESXi Servers. More info and IOCs in this technical advisory by @MartinZugec businessinsights.bitdefender.com/technical-advi…