vx-underground adds roughly 200k malware samples

A large public malware archive gives defenders, researchers, and tooling authors more real samples to test against instead of relying on toy datasets

Hello I have collected more malware. It's like, ... 200,000 malware, I think. I don't know. I've stopped counting. It is enough malware for your friends, family, extended family, neighbors, and co-workers. Please download it. The malware
Ranked #10 on backlist 2026-05-10 (10 May 2026 UTC) · by (vx-underground) ·

How it ranks: Backlist reads my Twitter/X timeline, scores every tweet for substance with an LLM rubric (not engagement), and publishes the daily top picks with a one-line takeaway. Curated by Surya Dantuluri.