It’s conference & festival season—♪ the most wonderful time of the year ♪ …bc I get to send my most ludicrous graphic design requests to local print shops and see which are brave enough to deliver

Very excited to share that I’ll be presenting at @sleuthcon.bsky.social in June! Jim & I will share the backstory behind AkiraBot that didn’t make it into the blog—and what they’ve been up to since.

Mood board while drafting my @sleuthcon.bsky.social CFP submission (thanks for the sweet challenge coin, Sleuthy Sleuthington!) 🐍

I finally feel like the stars are aligning! And if they aren’t, I’ll move them myself. Someone’s gotta do it.

Lately, the call of the void is increasingly loud. And today, the void says to install Xiaohongshu for research purposes

our network has raised hundreds of dollars to give firefighters the zyn they need to keep protecting LA from the fires. Thank you!!

Apparently I’ll be last minute lobbyconning at Shmoo. Say hi if we should hang!

ADIB

I would like to take a moment to reflect on how awful the updates to the iOS Apple Mail client have been. It’s practically unusable now and everything sent to junk is legitimate mail. Huge downgrade. Is it just me?

CTI is the cause of my brainrot but I really cooked on this #salttyphoon #telecomhack

super simple bluesky firehose with references gist.github.com/aaronsdevera...

The Aircrafts Comments signal sticker pack is having a moment

Good times in DC. WAG drag was a success! For our unofficial post @cyberwarcon.bsky.social WAGINT party, I LARPed as Pavel Durov’s WAG, Juli Vavilova. nypost.com/2024/08/26/w...

The In-N-Out Info-Ops patch from @cyberwarcon.bsky.social goes so hard!!! Kudos to whoever designed that—love to see West Coast representation at a DC con 😎

Who else is blowing off F1 for Cyberwarcon? F 👏 THEM 👏 CARS See all you real WAGs there!

🚨 New Research Drop: 🇰🇵 DPRK IT Workers | A Network of Active Front Companies and Their Links to China Summary: ⚪ Newly Disrupted Front Companies by USG ⚪ Impersonating US based software and tech orgs ⚪ Links to still-active front orgs, CN association Report: www.sentinelone.com/labs/dprk-it...

They say a new Bluesky follower is born every minute 🦋

Love to see that a Spanish language site covered my recent cloud ransomware post & made a distracted boyfriend meme for the preview image espanol.news/cloud-ransom...

How does the new iOS inactivity reboot work? What does it protect from? I reverse engineered the kernel extension and the secure enclave processor, where this feature is implemented. naehrdine.blogspot.com/2024/11/reve...

My crew is in need of 2-3 CCC tickets. If you know anyone with an extra, please reach out! #38C3

My team at $DAY_JOB did some great work this week and published a blog about some interesting malware we saw. It's a downloader that is abusing free Cloudflare Argo Tunnels and using it as a C2 server: labs.beazley.security/articles/hun...

Trying to function at the club but

FBot still circulating almost a year later. Only changes in the diff are new API keys & email addresses in the config. www.sentinelone.com/labs/explori...

See the latest iOS inactivity reboot in action! iOS 18 comes with improved anti-theft measures. Three days w/o unlock, the iPhone will reboot, preventing thieves from getting your data. (1/4)

I wrote a post on the realities of cloud & webserver ransomware. Check it out to see some of the toolsets & frameworks that can be used for these attacks.

Babe wake up! The Onion just bought Infowars. Best news to wake up to in weeks.

Hey new folks, welcome to BlueSky! My name is Fran and I run the following #cybersecurity feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... I'll be working keep it spam free & good. If you're curious here are the keywords I'm looking for: gist.github.com/francisck/d8... Please provide feedback if you have any.

If you were a villain, who would you be?

This week is a great week to listen to Pussy Riot on repeat. Just sayin’

MEOW :3

Opening bsky app for the first time in months like

Apple sure knows how to choose the cover photos for Memories. Anyway, EDC kicked ass, will do again & again.

Tonight, Wegovy in hell

Repost with a You meme

Iconic. Need this on a mug

The hardest part of interviewing was always suppressing the harsh realities of my career trajectory

I’m pretty sure I won’t get roofied if I only drink jello shots. I know what must be done 🫡

Use a saved picture to share your feelings with us.

How many times do I need to remind my keyboard that “twink” is a word??

How is there no bloody Nando’s in NYC??? Overrated

Is Quaalude a Scandinavian word? Asking for a friend

The NYT is declaring war on the Goths, apparently

She had that big demonic energy, which persists today

Convos from home: “What’s that word for someone who is constitutionally incapable of winning?”

My kids left cat ears laying around so I put them on. I keep forgetting that I have on bc I don’t want to take them off until I’m able to put them away. Having mild body horror every time I feel them on my head. Please send help This has been my TED talk

This perfectly encapsulates the internet now

Why does California get to have cool alien plants like this? It’s unfair.

ICYDK: most of my inner monologue is in the voice of Professor Farnsworth from Futurama

The news is so cursed right now. Expect this account to be me complaining about headlines for the next 10 months

Not reading this article, but 90% sure that “love” is not what Americans look for during a trip to Colombia.