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🧵 Trump Mobile exploit was way worse than everyone thought. A straight up GOD MODE api endpoint was available for anyone to use to pull back full customer data including plaintext password
Tump Mobile is currently leaking customer information, including full names, shipping addresses, emails, and more
A security researcher contacted @coffeebreak_YT to make him aware of the vulnerability. The researcher has contacted the Trump Mobile team about a responsible disclosure, but hasn't heard back yet
im waiting for the craziest new iteration of click fix to pop up based on this
‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed.
GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision.
What happened?:
▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated.
▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead.
▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed.
▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out.
The bigger picture:
▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature.
▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...
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Does @ProtonMail have an unpatchable email spam filter bypass by using an account's public PGP key?
Every account has a public PGP key that can be used to encrypt emails. This prevents the service provider from reading the content, straight forward. But, this also means that spammers can use the same encryption to bypass content-based spam filters.
I've never considered weaponizing PGP like this before.
Am I missing something?
- proton[.]me/support/download-public-private-key#how-to-download-your-public-key
- proton[.]me/mail/privacy-policy#:~:text=We%20do%20NOT,Services%20and%20users
I never really thought about it, but 3DNS isn’t its own registrar, it *partners* with Namesilo for registrations
All the multisig and tokenization is just fancy account controls for what is a normal domain reseller. All the “security controls” can be bypassed since Namesilo actually controls everything under the hood
Can high value projects use actual corporate domain registrars (Markmonitor, CSC) instead of whatever this is?
Replying to @aeroxyz
According to our partners at 3DNS and NameSilo, who are still actively investigating, multisig control was circumvented.
DNSSEC was removed from both domains and a compromised insider at NameSilo was able to redirect the domains to malicious pages.
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1/ I've been doing some research into how Unity Packages (similar to Node or Pip packages) could be weaponized for malware delivery
Let me tell you, it doesn't exactly look good... 🧵
1/ Looks like Monkey Drainer has woken up for a bit to exploit some ancient approvals from previous drain victims.
Over $100k+ has been stolen in tokens and NFTs.
he put his profits into sDAI and pax gold??? whose grandfather got the alpha???
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Not looking good on-chain
Tokens have been split into different wallets, stETH and mETH is being dumped for ETH using Uniswap eating massive slippage
They're currently trying to figure out how cmETH works
Seems that @Bybit_Official hot wallet just got hacked.
Though, it's a multi-sign $1.5B worth of $ETH was withdrawn to the new address and is currently being sold
More info below ⬇️
Edition 0: Da F*ck They Doing Over There
Weekly round-up of (primarily) crypto security events, incidents, & news
Covering:
- On-chain exploits
- Crime, policy, and regulation
- Scams, malware, and drains
- And anything else because there's always something
Let's jump in...
On-Chain Exploits for the Week (h/t @BlockSecTeam):
GemPad (@TheGemPad) experienced an exploit across Ethereum, Base, and BSC with a total loss of ~$1.8M stemming from a reentrancy vulnerability.
Read more: halborn.com/blog/post/explai…
A Moonwell (@MoonwellDeFi) vault named "Moonhacker" was exploited on Optimism for ~$320K stemming from an access control issue.
Understand the exploit: xitter.gq/LukeYoungblood/status/…
Last night, a vault on @Optimism named "Moonhacker" had a vulnerability that was exploited and I'd like to explain what happened.
First, let me be clear: All funds on @MoonwellDeFi are safe and there are no vulnerabilities in the Moonwell protocol. 🧵
xitter.gq/CyversAlerts/status/18…
I find it hilarious how hard eXch tries to deny the fact that they blatantly accept stolen funds 24/7
"Hey, Zach you amateur, we didn't swap these funds for Litecoin!"
They say this as they're absolutely guilty of accepting the funds and exchanging them for something else lol
Happy to announce that I've joined @FairsideNetwork as their lead investigator!
I'll be building out the investigations department to prevent fraud and provide accessible and equitable crypto insurance for all 🫡
There is potentially a significant, undisclosed data breach affecting @BloFin_Official customers
Specifically:
⁃ customer KYC data (name, address, SSN, email, phone number, scans of passports/DL/etc)
⁃ support, account recovery, and liveliness videos
In the early morning of October 25, a threat actor channel on Telegram posted an announcement stating they had breached "a crypto website with more than a million+ users" and that the data was for sale
Along side the announcement, two videos were posted of potential Blofin customers' support request videos, containing PII (name, email, identification documents). In the second video, the user specifically mentions Blofin by name
Investigating Hackers' Favorite Instant Crypto Exchange
If you've paid any attention to hacks affecting the crypto ecosystem, you've probably encountered eXch before. Funds attributed to groups including the DPRK, Pink Drainer, and the FixedFloat hacker have moved through eXch
eXch originally operated under the eXch[.]cc domain between April 2014 and May 2016 and only supported BTC and Perfect Money. Later, eXch would establish a BitcoinTalk forum profile where they would promote the site's 24/7 automatic exchanging service.
However, their activity on the forum would abruptly cease in May of 2015 and subsequently in 2016, eXch would cease operations completely and go offline.
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I would like to build on top of this as I haven't seen any other posts go further. Just FYI I don't have experience reversing normal malware, but here's my stab at it.
Using the HA report were able to quickly get around the obfuscated cmd file: hybrid-analysis.com/sample/e…
Then after a little bit of manual cleaning, we end up with some normal powershell that base64 decodes, decrypts using AES, and g-un-zips a comment from the original cmd file into two assembly payloads then executes them.
Well, what exactly are these assembly payloads? Using CyberChef (see Gist), we can quickly put together a pipeline to get the hash of the file and stick it into VirusTotal. It drops "BStub_Onimai" and "irFKI" which apparently are a RAT (info stealer) and ransomware respectively.
Gist: gist.github.com/vile/2e82610…
virustotal.com/gui/file/ff6b…
Today, my PC was nearly compromised.
With just one click, I installed a malicious @code extension. Luckily, I was saved as my PC doesn't run on Windows.
Hackers are getting smarter and aren't just targeting beginners. Here's how they do it and how you can protect your coins!
The following analysis of wallets associated with H*mas and the PIJ, named in Israeli Administrative Seizure Orders (ASOs), referenced by Elliptic, Chainalysis, and in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s letter to the US Treasury, will contain minimal on-chain analysis for the following reasons
- The $93 million inflow of USDT, USDC, and TRX to ASO 34/23 wallets posted by Elliptic is (mostly) an undisputed figure
- The $41 million inflow of USDT and TRX to ASO 15/22 and ASO 19/23 wallets posted by BitOK is an undisputed figure
- The context and methodology used by the Israeli Ministry of Defense to determine the ownership of ASO-associated wallets is unknown and not public
Specific inflow volume to ASO-associated wallets are not disputed and have been independently verified by multiple parties. The issue lies within how these figures are represented and portrayed in the WSJ’s article and Sen. Warren’s letter.
xitter.gq/sem1d5/status/17…
To quote Elliptic, “it is not clear exactly how much of these funds belong directly to [terrorist organizations].” As such, it is impossible to definitively say that the cumulative $130 million volume, stated in Sen. Warren’s letter, belongs solely to H*mas and the PIJ. This is a blatant misrepresentation of the data and is fear mongering.
xitter.gq/NeerajKA/status/…
Furthermore, it possible, not definitive, to cast doubt by the consistent language across all three ASOs of interest. Stated, “[We have] been convinced that the cryptocurrency wallets… are the property of designated terrorist organization[s]…” Concurrent with Elliptic and Chainalysis’s articles, the wallets present in the ASOs are most likely brokers or OTC traders.
While Chainalysis’s example only showcases a single wallet, it highlights how terror financing makes up a comparatively small amount of transactional volume. Actively choosing to blindly assume all volume is terror-related, while only a small portion actually is, is a faulty line of reason and quickly falls apart when applied to other means of financial exchange, outside of crypto.
In this case, it is apparent that cryptocurrency is simply a means to an end, and funds eventually re-enter the TradeFi banking system. Of direct volume processed by ASO 34/23 wallets, $37.46 million is immediately deposited into exchanges. That's 40%. Even accounting for one degree of separation, the percentage increases dramatically.
platform.arkhamintelligence.…
The same applies to withdrawals. $35.23 million has been withdrawn from various exchanges directly to ASO 34/23 wallets, most likely originating from the TradeFi system. It is highly unlikely that rockets and arms were purchased with Tether, but with TradeFi dollars.
Scapegoating crypto for terror financing due to its properties as a public ledger does not hold up. It is serving its purpose. The public visibility provided by the ledger actually helps in detecting such cases of financing, regardless of the monetary volume or the percentage of funds truly related to terror. This is evident in cases such as the shutdown of the crypto donation program by the military wing of H*mas.
chainalysis.com/blog/hamas-a…
Lastly, it is important to consider the articles (and letter) by Elliptic, Chainalysis, and Sen. Warren may be opportunistic in nature.
xitter.gq/spreekaway/statu…
Can crypto-twitter OSINT outperform the WSJ’s chain analysis?
** Announcing $500 in BTC bounty for the 21 best open source analyses of the facts surrounding the WSJ/Warren letter. Rules and submission link below **
On October 10, following the attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians, Angus Berwick and Ian Talley of the WSJ published the article “Hamas Militants Behind Israel Attack Raised Millions in Crypto”. The WSJ followed up with “Why Hamas Uses Crypto to Raise Money” and then published an op-ed from Sen. Elizabeth Warren entitled “Cryptocurrency Feeds Hamas’s Terrorism”. Sen. Warren then wrote a letter to the White House and Treasury signed by over 100 members of Congress, reliant entirely on the WSJ claim that Hamas and affiliates had raised “over $130m in crypto” to fund their operations since 2021. Warren is now leading a campaign to aggressively marginalize the crypto industry in the US based on her provocative claim. Yet – subsequent evidence thrown cast her entire empirical basis into question. The WSJ has thus far refused to update or retract their story.
Since the WSJ article, both Chainalysis and Elliptic have cast the reporting into doubt.
Starting with the resources listed in the google form, and any other information you can gather, replicate the work done by Elliptic and BitOK, and critically evaluate either the WSJ reporting or the Warren letter. Use chain analysis tools and conventional reporting techniques. Focus on knowable ground truths. Your reporting can focus on debunking a specific detail of the story, creating an independent, more fact-based account of the events, creating a data visualization, or simply creating a meme or graphic depicting the events or the WSJs reporting.
Can Bitcoin Twitter come up with a better tally than Talley?
In one week from today (i.e., on Thursday, 11/02/23), 21 of the best, qualifying submissions will each receive $500 in Bitcoin.
Contest rules, full context, and submission here: forms.gle/UGtyrNcgJW1vaMxn8
RPL has been swapped for ETH and funds are currently on the move. He's joined up ETH with wallets connected to the large WBTC phish last week where he accidentally burned 2.7 WBTC.
Have you been phishing attacked? @worthalter @poapxyz
Seems like Fake_Phishing66321 transferred your 85,898 $RPL ($3.83M) out.
@zachxbt
etherscan.io/address/0xf6b6f…
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Venom has deposited 33.22 ETH into @Stake and the customer has sent 17 ETH to @SimpleSwap_io
After being scammed out of $1M last week, Venom Drainer has now started reserving his 25% cut and sending it to his hot wallet.
Before, he sent all scammed assets to his customers and trusted that they would pay him his cut.
I guess Venom users can't scam out anymore.
Reference:
xitter.gq/realScamSniffer/status…
someone lost $4m by ERC20 Permit phishing 10 minutes ago
etherscan.io/tx/0xadeedf979e…
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The drainer script used for this was custom made and only targeted 34 assets, specifically on the Arbitrum network.
Phisher got away with roughly $46.7K
#CertiKSkynetAlert 🚨
We are seeing reports that a phishing link has been posted in the @arbitrum Discord Server.
Do not click on any links until the team has confirmed they’ve regained control of the server.
#Phishing #Discord
Stay vigilant!
















































