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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 4h

Ritalin just gives me migraines and makes me unproductive + hungry af

Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 5h

This isn't true. The fact it has to be metabolized first causes a slower onset, preventing abuse mechanism such as snorting and injecting, which causes an intense rush. You can still just get high on it by just taking more Vyvanse, which leads to a higher peak blood concentration.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 5h

I've heard that from a couple people now. Anything from the pharmacist refusing to fill the prescription to them calling the cops. The war on drugs has really done a number on legitimate healthcare.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 5h

Ironically, d-methamphetamine (pharmaceutical meth) has the least physical side effects of any amphetamine when taken at therapeutic dose. It's FDA approved for ADHD, but if you think getting real painkillers is hard, try asking your doctor to prescribe you literal meth 😭 3/3

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 5h

As a result, many people find d-amphetamine feels less intense than Adderall, because it's a a more potent CNS stimulant. The dose gets adjusted down to account for an increase in potency, resulting in equivalent therapeutic effects but weaker peripheral side effects (less crack-adjacent). 2/3

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 5h

Something very annoying about amphetamine based ADHD medication is they acts on both the CNS (brain) and PNS (body). So while mentally I feel calm and focused, physically I feel like I just took a heroic dose of crack. Interestingly, there is an inverse relationship between CNS and PNS potency. 1/3

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 18h

Economic uncertainty causes people to be more conservative with money, which means less buying of riskier assets like stock and crypto. It also causes reallocation of existing investments to safer assets. Due to high leverage, these trends are significantly amplified in the crypto markets.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 18h

Given that the whole point is to keep escalating the violence, this is the most effective form of protest. It undermines their narrative of a "violent mob", and every time they try to escalate, they'll just look goofy as hell beating a bunch of inflatable animals.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 1d

It reduces a couple of theoretical risk, but not super pertinent

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 1d

One of the questions on my company's mandatory cybersecurity awareness training exam is "what is one thing you have learned as a result of taking this training?" 😭

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 1d

Almost all of those "resist" accounts are bots

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

What's crazy about the US immigration system is even under a good administration it's still atrocious. I remember applying for my first work permit, which took so long that it was already expired by the time I received it.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Yikes indeed. After multiple quarters of success in bringing down backlogs, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is taking a turn for the worse.

The latest data shows that in the first six months of 2025, total net backlogs rose 26%, up by 1.1 million pending applications (of all kinds).

A bar chart showing Total Net USCIS Immigration Application Backlog by quarter, Fiscal Year 2023 Q4 through Fiscal Year 2025 Q3. The chart shows that total applications pending dropped from a bit over 4 million in FY 2023 Q4 to 3.8 million in FY 2024 Q4. In FY 2025, every quarter there has been an increase, with the sharpest increase from Q1 to Q2 and then a smaller but still significant increase from Q2 to Q3, peaking at 5.4 million pending cases.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

He isn't an undocumented immigrant, not even an immigrant, a natural born US citizen. He's the second most streamed artist on Spotify, second only to Taylor Swift. A logical choice to play the Super Bowl, but Republicans are extremely mad about it. And absolutely everyone knows why. 2/2

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

I don't think anyone here was naive enough to think it was ever actually about criminal undocumented immigrants. But with that said, MAGA, Congress people, and even the president taking time out of their day to be mad about Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl tells you exactly where there head is. 1/2

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

This is how silly all the ASI & vibe coding posts are probably going to look in 5 years time.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

It's not an air condition, it's a HEPA filter

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

Arctic dog doing arctic dog things

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

Most of the common windows ones are fairly easy to avoid, but it'd be a cat and mouse game either way you do it

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

There's a lot of different variants with how they encourage users to run the script and they like to rotate between them. Personally I think it'd be best to prevent it via a browser extension which scans the clipboard for scripts and warns the users

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

Yeah that was my first thought, but then I decided it's best not to give threat actors technique improvement advice in the corporate blog

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

Nobody is making the claim that a powershell script don't constitute a payload, only that it does not embed a payload.

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Expel @expelsecurity.bsky.social · 3d

We're also bringing @malwaretech.com into the mix. Marcus’ expertise in malware analysis and reverse engineering adds serious firepower to our ability to understand and counter evolving threats. 👀 Read his first blog post with Expel: expel.com/blog/cache-s...
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Cache smuggling: When a picture isn’t a thousand words

We recently observed an innovative campaign using the ClickFix attack tactic for cache smuggling. Here's what you need to know.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

We encountered a unique variant of the ClickFix malware technique. The catch? The user is social engineered into running a PowerShell script which downloads no files, makes no web requests, and embeds no payload.

Regardless, it's still able to install a malicious loader.

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Cache smuggling: When a picture isn’t a thousand words

We recently observed an innovative campaign using the ClickFix attack tactic for cache smuggling. Here's what you need to know.

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