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Steve YARA Synapse Miller

@stvemillertime.bsky.social
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writing & sharing on adversary tradecraft, malware, threat detection, ics/ot + cyber physical intel, and of course all things #yara

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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
If you need me I'll be in the Andromeda Galaxy
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Hang on gotta pump up the valuation so my series B folks can exit
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Those of you building modern edge devices, packet tools, network sensors, SSL decrypt, Suricata, etc -- it'll be a couple years yet, but your day will come again. Slow and steady like erosion, the attention, the investment, the market will come crawling back to you.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Imo the security product market is almost always a decade behind needs, but over time ends up being pulled to meet the adversary where they are operating. In the 2010s the market came late to the endpoint, in the 2020s late to the cloud, in the 2030s it'll be back to the network.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Summer of George
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I'll give it a top 10 :D
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My top 5 movies about ~hacking probably say more about my age than anything else, but still: #1 - Hackers (1995) #2 - War Games (1983) #3 - Johnny Mnemonic (1995) #4 - Ghost in the Shell (1995) #5 - Office Space (1999) <- surprisingly full of hacks
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
True Lies
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The Wire, but a cybercrime version of it
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
imo, great defenders think like attackers and great attackers think like defenders and great security folks think like both and great intelligence folks think like neither beep boop computers
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I used to secretly judge folks that don't *love* music. But I learned that not everyone has the same ability to _detect_ musical features (pitch, rhythm, harmony etc). This happens not in the ear but in the brain. W/ diff neuro wiring & genes, folks don't always hear what I hear.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"The game is out there, and it's either play or get played." - Omar
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Which of the Warhammer 40K races and factions should I get into? Sisters of Battle? Space Wolves? Henry Cavill?
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Really neat exposé on RDP tradecraft to include signed .rdp configs, resource redirection, RemoteApps and probably PyRDP. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
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Windows Remote Desktop Protocol: Remote to Rogue | Google Cloud Blog
A novel phishing campaign by Russia-nexus espionage actors targeting European government and military organizations.
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gab 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @gabagool.ing · 07/04/2025
Excellent breakdown of the “Rogue RDP” TTP we’ve seen susp Russian APT UNC5837 using in their campaigns written by my colleague Rohit (@IzySec over on X)
cloud.google.com
Windows Remote Desktop Protocol: Remote to Rogue | Google Cloud Blog
A novel phishing campaign by Russia-nexus espionage actors targeting European government and military organizations.
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Ronnie Salomonsen @r0ns3n.dk · 07/04/2025
Windows Remote Desktop Protocol: Remote to Rogue cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
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Windows Remote Desktop Protocol: Remote to Rogue | Google Cloud Blog
A novel phishing campaign by Russia-nexus espionage actors targeting European government and military organizations.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"NIST to purge 'wasteful' algorithms, return to using DES"
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
gorge
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We most definitely trained at the same dojo! and lots of folks rotated through it over the years, I think there is a hybrid 100DoY-fu slowly developing :D
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Doug Metz @dwmetz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Introducing MalChela. A YARA and Malware Analysis utility written in Rust. #DFIR #MalwareAnalysis #YARA #Hashing
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MalChela – A YARA and Malware Analysis Toolkit written in Rust
Saturday was for Python. Sunday was for Rust. After my success with the Python + YARA + Hashing, I decided to take things to the next level. Over the past few years I've created a number of Python and PowerShell scripts related to YARA and Malware Analysis. What if I combined them into a single utility? While we're at it, let's rewrite them all from scratch in Rust.
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Doug Metz @dwmetz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Seeing these scrips run brings me joy. #DFIR #MalwareAnalysis #Python #YARA
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Doug Metz @dwmetz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Creating custom hash sets with YARA and Python I don't like to brag, he said, but you should see the size of my malware library. For a recent project, I wanted to produce a hash set for all the malware files in my repository. Included in the library are malware samples for Windows and other…
bakerstreetforensics.com
Creating custom hash sets with YARA and Python
I don't like to brag, he said, but you should see the size of my malware library. For a recent project, I wanted to produce a hash set for all the malware files in my repository. Included in the library are malware samples for Windows and other platforms. Within the library there are also a lot of pdf's with write ups corresponding to different samples.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Do not despair, my friends, the only way out is through; And the climate will probably kill us all pretty soon anyway
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
One rule's FP is another rule's FN.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
SSH is the cyber blood magick of both the world's most stalwart orgs and the world's toughest adversaries.
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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
You’re an MSS or SVR cyber targeter who’s spent years trying to find an access vector into SPS/PAM; then suddenly a pack of high-profile, right-wing, edgelord zoomers — who will definitely click on any link they think will get them laid — just get admin access. Prepositioning acquisition speedrun.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
American companies have been giving my data to China for a decade. I don't see why I shouldn't have the option to just give it to them myself.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
For those reasons and more, I've been slowly dialing back Amazon altogether in favor of other things. Hoping to cancel Prime by next year. Just a terrible shopping experience.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Years of mediocre gen AI commodities will birth a generation of neo-luddites who refuse to delegate the joys of art, music, writing & human connection to machines. They'll sketch, read human-gen pBooks, buy vinyls at concerts, share hand-written original pre-trend non-memes.
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Wesley Shields @wxs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If you want to test out my YARA rule linting work use this PR: github.com/VirusTotal/y... If you want to get the basic gist of it, this config file change has documentation on it: github.com/VirusTotal/y... Just set it in your config file and use "yr check" for now. Happy #100DaysOfYARA. ;)
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Which subscription news services do you pay for? I want premium, non content farm, mostly human-written science, tech, security news. I'm considering things like The Information, 404 media, MIT Tech Review, etc, but looking for recommendations. (I get NYT, AP, Reuters already)
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A unique finding, a novel artifact, a hidden curio, a piece of something yet unknown to the world. With each discovery comes a bewitching temptation to believe you alone know a secret, and own it.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
In your opinion, what are the differences between cyber security journalism and cyber threat intelligence?
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"cooperetition"
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I love this! I think you're on the money with the anchoring, and I was trying to figure out if it was better to anchor on the software or the currentversion piece, but I think either would work just as well given that neither are super common (I don't think?)
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Hexacorn @hexacorn.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
come to think of it, it's actually pretty easy; probably can be simplified but I wanted 4 chars as anchors at the front
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
How would you detect something like this, generically? SOFT_WARE\Micros_oft\Win_dows\Curr_entVer_sion\Ru_n
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Invoke @mikewiacek.bsky.social
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Yes, I would love this, I think this needs to be in an integrated tooling suite that involves preset corpus testing for both goodware & badware, with # & % & other metrics for file & string matches -- this could be in Binja, but also in a VS Code plugin that lets you config your corpora cc @re.wtf
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My goodness this is fun. 547621 file(s) scanned in 46.4s. 8 file(s) matched.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Lovely creature comforts in YARA-X such as basic stats for scanned, match number and time. 502551 file(s) scanned in 35.8s. 0 file(s) matched.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I often use my personal SIGINT experiences to describe CN APT groups, and rightly accused of mirroring bias. Still, CN has been pillaging and imitating us for decades, so if you want to see what they're up to today on the CNO front, look at what the IC was doing 10+ years ago.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
How many trillion security signals per day? :D
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Curate your collection
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We've got our 100DoY cut out for us! :D
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I love Florian! I understand that the way he prefers to do things is out of necessity, and great for him and his specific application.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
There is no "right" way to write YARA rules. You may dislike my rule format preferences or content decisions, just as I might dislike your document with bland vocabulary, unimaginative prose. There are ineffective ways to use YARA, but there's no right way. Find your style.
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I hear this a lot! :)
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Steve YARA Synapse Miller @stvemillertime.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I had to look up NIH syndrome, hadn't heard of that before, but I've sure felt it! :D
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