Marcus Hutchins :verified:

Cybersecurity

Marcus Hutchins :verified:malwaretech@infosec.exchange
2026-01-20

Since the decline of peer-to-peer botnets it's been difficult to track malware infections externally. But smart contract based C2 infrastructure provided us with unique insights into this campaign.

expel.com/blog/clearfake-new-l

A graph showing the geographic distribution of infected systems, with most centralized around costal and eastern US, Central Europe, and South Asia.
Marcus Hutchins :verified:malwaretech@infosec.exchange
2026-01-20

My latest blog post investigating a malware campaign which infects victims by utilizing only legitimate infrastructure. The malicious activity spans hundreds of hacked websites, the BSC blockchain, and a popular CDN.

expel.com/blog/clearfake-new-l

Marcus Hutchins :verified:malwaretech@infosec.exchange
2026-01-19

Just checking in on my investment portfolio, because apparently computers are appreciating assets now.

Marcus Hutchins :verified:malwaretech@infosec.exchange
2026-01-17

I've been researching some malware that uses Blockchain Smart Contracts as Command-and-Control infrastructure. Since blockchain data is public, I was able to write code to track how many new systems the malware infects each day. Blog post coming next week.

Marcus Hutchins :verified:malwaretech@infosec.exchange
2024-10-28

The other really wild thing about UK elections is while they're on a fixed term similar to how US elections are, the government can vote to hold an election basically whenever, at which point you have ~25 days until the election and ~26 until the new government takes over. During Brexit they called like 3 elections in 4 years and by the end of it everyone was so sick of democracy there was a proposed legislation to just have no more elections until a fixed date 💀

Marcus Hutchins :verified:malwaretech@infosec.exchange
2024-10-22

@GossiTheDog Yeah that's pretty standard for a vendor conference. It'll be a lot of internal employees, then a couple of external "big names".

Marcus Hutchins :verified:malwaretech@infosec.exchange
2024-07-16

@DasFaultier I'm leaning towards the latter. Seems futile to be taking toothless moral stances while the world burns

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