Notices by Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social), page 5

based on the timestamps, apparently the portal changed yesterday. Their last victim post was 10 days ago. Has gone from Nginx to Apache webserver on Debian.

hey @bsi - did u seize 8base ransomware portal?

The text comes from the HTML source btw.

8base weren't particular great at OPSEC, e.g. their Tor server was blatantly publicly visible on the plain internet for a while - it also had SSH running with the same host signature that LockBit 3.0 use.

8base ransomware group has apparently been seized or done an exit scam.

Two of its Tor portals say "This hidden site and the criminal content have been seized by the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office on behalf of the Office of the Public Prosecutor General in Bamberg"

They had been hitting some high profile targets in recent times.

#threatintel #ransomware

Waiting for Microsoft to rebrand itself Copilot. Going full Meta.

We shouldn’t say companies hire reformed hackers when they knowing hire people who are still actively engaged in DDoS, while billing themselves as anti-DDoS companies.

TPG are saying the outage in Australia was a technical issue, apparently caused by power ages due to weather in New Zealand. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/10/major-outage-hits-tpg-vodafone-iinet-internode-and-kogan-customers-amid-wild-nsw-weather

@ireneista @brewsterkahle it’s the same in US, you only get asked for consent in Europe as it’s a law here.

TPG appear to have BGP hijacked several million IPs in error, change being reverted.

Widescale internet outage in Australia is due to TPG accidentally issuing a large BGP broadcast.

If you start to see the US judiciary’s authority dismantled- they’re the final check on executive power - then you’re in the endgame to authoritarian rule.

It’s not there yet. But one to watch. The party of law and order may be the party who successfully disband it, it looks like they’re flirting with trying.

President Musk has tweeted that the judge is “corrupt” and called for him to be “impeached now” and the Vice President has said federal judges shouldn’t have legal power.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-judiciary-musk-separation-of-powers-balance-checks-069c169ea1ddf6eea76f502d544c4c16

The CFPB - today closed with an Elon Musk tweet “RIP CFPB” - was set up after the 2007/08 financial crisis. It was also investigating micro payment apps, like X.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/cfpb-vought-staff-finance-watchdog.html

Absolutely wild. The US financial services regulator has had their website suddenly deleted this weekend and according to the NY Times they’ve been told to stop all supervisory activity (ie regulation).

It’s supposed to be protected by an act of Congress but President Musk has decided to ignore that.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/

And just like that, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's website goes poof? I can't tell if that 404 Error message is the result of content being deleted, or the current administration just being cheeky about it.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/

A federal judge has ruled all DOGE Teenage Mutant Ninja Incels must stop accessing US Treasury data immediately, and destroy all copies they took. A case is running claiming Elon Musk broke federal law.

The ruling backs up the CTI assessment by the now fired US Treasury analyst. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw4g2q62xqo

Teenage mutant incel techbros.

The employee who wrote the CTI assessment around DOGE has been terminated https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-08/treasury-warned-of-insider-threat-risk-from-musk-s-doge-access

The tweets of the DOGE staff member who said he was a racist etc have been removed from archive.org after a takedown request.