https://x.com/gf_256/status/1945829129804542208/photo/1

China's APT cyberspies are some of the best in the business. But how did the hackers get their start? Turns out many were "Honkers" - patriotic hackers in their teens and 20s who, in the late 90s, launched nationalistic cyberattacks against countries they deemed disrespectful to China. But as the Honkers developed their skills over time, the PLA and MSS came calling. In recent years they have been tied to prolific APT groups responsible for hundreds of intrusions in the US and around the world; and some have been indicted. Some of them also launched companies, like i-Soon, that have played an integral role in China's state hacking operations. Here's my story, based on great research from Eugenio Benincasa and Adam Kozy.

https://www.wired.com/story/china-honkers-elite-cyber-spies/

[RSS] Building secure messaging is hard: A nuanced take on the Bitchat security debate

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/07/18/building-secure-messaging-is-hard-a-nuanced-take-on-the-bitchat-security-debate/

CVE-2025-23267：A vulnerability in NVIDIA Container Toolkit can lead to container escape.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/16/3

Looking at this and CVE-2025-23266 makes me wonder: was NVIDIA's GPU sandbox vibe-coded?

#VibeCoding #AI #YOLO

CVE-2025-30761：A vulnerability in JDK's Nashorn Allows for Arbitrary Code Execution

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q3/43

Ooooh I love this! Can't wait to see the details....

#Java #JavaScript

@oscherler @mcc I think part of the problem is that the concept of FTP is becoming lost knowledge... Btw. do providers these days have SCP services exposed (with pubkey auth and whatnot) or is it FTP XOR WebAPI?

@mcc

@higgins it was a very complicated beep

@danzin "Any fuzzer at all, no matter how primitive, has a
better chance of finding a bug than an idle CPU core."

https://fuzzinginfo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ben_nagy_how_to_fail_at_fuzzing.pdf

Good luck ;)

Has anyone had/decided-not-to-have an intern specifically in a vuln research team? We're debating it at work but some people are skeptical WRT the amount of work we'd be putting in mentoring (we aren't prepared to half-ass it), vs the amount of business value we'd get out. Candidates are strong (having CVEs for example) but it's a big ask to put them on a fortigate (for example) and expect results - and at the same time, it's not fair to give an intern a hard project which is likely going to give them a confidence hit. How did you / how could I manage this? Ideally I don't want to give interns non-research work (like the usual 'set up a lab'), I know they want to be finding bugs. Plus we've got the university sponsoring it wanting clear projects and targets, which can be really difficult in a research team. Any tips? If it helps, our team looks at 0day/nday and our usual output is blogposts and fingerprinting scripts (usually fingerprinting via exploitation - we'd much rather exploit a vuln and detect that than rely on stuff like banners).

CVE-2025-4674: Go: cmd/go: unexpected command execution in untrusted VCS repositories https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/08/5
Using the Go toolchain in directories fetched using VCS tools (such as cloning Git or Mercurial repositories) can execute unexpected commands. Fixed in 1.24.5 & 1.23.11.

[RSS] Automated Function ID Database Generation in #Ghidra on Windows

Handy #PowerShell tooling by EQ

https://blog.mantrainfosec.com/blog/17/automated-function-id-database-generation-in-ghidra-on-windows

[RSS] My `Blind Date` with CVE-2025-29824

Another Windows CLFS exploit

https://starlabs.sg/blog/2025/07-my-blind-date-with-cve-2025-29824/

[RSS] NINA - A service letting AOL, AIM, ICQ and soon Skype live again by reverse-engineering their protocols.

https://nina.chat/

[RSS] The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem: Systems lie about their proper functioning

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250716-00/?p=111383

[RSS] An Interesting Cache Coherence Vulnerability in the Mali GPU Driver

https://u1f383.github.io/android/2025/07/16/an-interesting-cache-coherence-vulnerability-in-the-mali-gpu-driver.html

[RSS] CVE-2025-4660: Forescout SecureConnector RCE

https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/red-teaming/cve-2025-4660-forescout-secureconnector-rce/

[RSS] Daemon Ex Plist: LPE via MacOS Daemons

https://swarm.ptsecurity.com/daemon-ex-plist-lpe-via-macos-daemons/

Project: openssl-static-gcc-dwarf 3.4.0
File: openssl
Address: 005c87c0

evp_kem_from_algorithm

SVG:
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light https://tmr232.github.io/function-graph-overview/render/?graph=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fv-p-b%2Fghidra-function-graph-datasets%2Frefs%2Fheads%2Fmain%2F%2Fopenssl-static-gcc-dwarf%2F005c87c0.json&colors=light

I want someone to make a video series where they exceed cable lengths and show what happens.

what happens if you have a 2km USB cable? what works and what breaks?