CISO @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/WVeLIU48Nx & Superbet Group. Script kiddie since '98. I'm told I'm scary so I take a small unicorn pony named Splunky to all meetings 🦄

Bucharest, Romania
Joined May 2008
Alex “Jay” Balan retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Alex “Jay” Balan retweeted
Best GitHub repos for Claude code that will 10x your next project in 2026: 1. Claude Mem github.com/thedotmack/claude… 2. UI UX Pro Max github.com/nextlevelbuilder/… 3. n8n-MCP github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-m… 4. Obsidian Skills github.com/kepano/obsidian-s… 5. LightRAG github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG 6. Everything Claude Code github.com/affaan-m/everythi… 7. Superpowers github.com/obra/superpowers 8. Awesome Claude Code github.com/hesreallyhim/awes… 9. GSD (Get Shit Done) github.com/gsd-build/get-shi…
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Alex “Jay” Balan retweeted
🚨 One photo of your face. That's all someone needs to become you on a live video call. In real time. Right now. The tool is free and open source. It's called Deep-Live-Cam. One image. One click. You become anyone on a live webcam feed. No training. No datasets. No waiting. Instant. Your face. Your expressions. Your mouth movements. All stolen from a single photo. Here's what this thing does: → Upload one photo of any face → Turn on your webcam → You are now that person. Live. In real time. → It matches your pose, your expressions, even your lighting → Mouth masking so the swapped face moves its lips when you talk → Multi-face mapping. Swap different faces on different people in the same call. → Virtual camera output. Plug it into Zoom, Google Meet, Teams. Nobody knows. → Works on NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple Silicon Here's the part that should terrify you: Your boss could be on a Zoom call with someone wearing your face right now. A scammer could call your parents looking exactly like you. A stranger could take your LinkedIn photo and become you in a video meeting. IShowSpeed's reaction when he saw it: "What the F**! This shit is crazy!" SomeOrdinaryGamers: "That's fucking freaky dude... that's so wild." This was the #1 trending repo on GitHub the day it launched. 1,600 stars in 24 hours. 80K+ stars today. No one is ready for what this means. And it's already out there. 100% Open Source.
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Alex “Jay” Balan retweeted
Oh this is clean. A searchable, filterable RFID attack reference. HID Prox, MIFARE, EM4100, animal tags, organized by frequency AND tool (Proxmark, Flipper, Chameleon...). This is the cheat sheet that used to live in your notes app. Bookmark it! you'll thank yourself on your next physical engagement. redteam.vip/ram-rfid-attack-…
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Day 59 of 2026:
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9 days after the AWS outage... Azure down for 2h and counting. My conspiracy theory sense is tingling ;) azure.status.microsoft/en-us…
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Using LinkedIn recruitment to deploy malware on computers "here. clone this GitHub repo" as part of the interview process. medium.com/deriv-tech/how-a-…
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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
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Question of the day: is Putin a cause or a symptom?
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🚀 I’ve chosen to make this work freely available - no patents - so everyone can build on it, as a token of gratitude to the researchers who paved the way. 🔗researchgate.net/publication… #AI #Chatbots #Chronobiology #Innovation #AIResearch #LLM #llms
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You can’t script this… Me: Who is the biggest disinformation spreader on X? Grok: Elon Musk xitter.cf/i/grok/share/15Y73NhYf…
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Copywriters in tech companies, now: :%s/blockchain/Generative\ AI/
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Now imagine this AI model doesn’t work for you. Imagine it listens to your conversations but it works for and reports to the police. That’s where the EU is going.
We're testing a new feature that uses Gemini Nano to provide real-time alerts during a call if it detects conversation patterns commonly associated with scams. This protection all happens on-device so your conversation stays private to you. More to come later this year! #GoogleIO
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Linux finally gets support for Italian 😀 github.com/flying-pizza-69/G…
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😂 🤷‍♂️
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Alex “Jay” Balan retweeted
Are 100 BTC într-un portofel și te invită să îl spargi. Nu e clickbait dar e inutil să încerci. Cred că e mai folositor să îl asculți și să aplici cât reușești, în folosul tău. Alex „Jay” Bălan @Jaymzu este... foarte probabil, cel mai bun ethical hacker din România și ne-a oferit două ore și jumătate de informație gratis despre lucruri care... ustură în #IGDLCC Îl poți vedea sau asculta #peblog. Link mai jos.
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Alex “Jay” Balan retweeted
Întrerupem pauza de sărbători cu o discuție despre siguranța în Crypto. Unde e cel mai sigur să ținem frazele secrete? Ne spune părerea lui Alex Jay Bălan, ethical hacker, intr-o discuție cu @gbuhnici
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Realistic IT & Cybersecurity environment :D
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