Double the Yuri this Month with Okazu!
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Okazu Staff Presents The Top Yuri of 2025!

Earlier this week the Okazu staff gave a few Special Awards to series that so many of us love. Today we look at the series, people, publications that we think were the Top Yuri of 2025!

https://okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/31/okazu-staff-presents-the-top-yuri-of-2025/

Today on Okazu - Okazu’s Top Yuri of 2025 Special Awards Winners!

These four manga have been so popular on Okazu that we decided to give them a list of their own. ^_^

https://okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/29/okazus-top-yuri-of-2025-special-awards-winners/

Today on Okazu – Whale Store xoxo

Okazu Staff Writer Frank Hecker says of this oddly named Thai Live-action drama that it is sapphic comfort food, not as delicious as it might have been, but still good enough to satisfy Yuri fans hungry for down-home unpretentious fare.

https://okazu.yuricon.com/2025/09/04/whale-store-xoxo/

Part three of our VexTrio full monty is now available. This one is for the geeks but also a pretty short read... especially given the previous two parts!

Major takeaways are:
* these networks receive a ton of traffic. The primary image server for VexTrio TDS has long been in the top 10k popular domains globally -- we've been pushing hard and it is down around 11k now.
* they use a few different cloakers / trackers. we talk about IMKLO and binom.
* they run a pretty modern devops stack with all the tech you would expect.

#dns #vextrio #threatintel #scam #malware #phishing #tds #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox

https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/inside-the-robot-deconstructing-vextrios-affiliate-advertising-platform/

Well it's that time once again - we are looking for 10 *new* sustaining members for Yuricon and Okazu!

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Last week we released the first of a three part VexTrio origin story. The second part is now available. This research includes more than 200 open source references to help others validate the results and start their own investigations.

As of Tuesday, August 5th, all of those links were valid and all went directly to open material …. so anything that is gone, or social media that is now closed… welp, that's the actors, not us. Feel free to report missing things in this thread. :)

The second part of this story focuses on the VexTrio activities that extend beyond their well-known traffic distribution systems (TDS). Enjoy.

#dns #threatintel #scam #tds #infoblox #spam #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #malware

https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/vextrio-unmasked-a-legacy-of-spam-and-homegrown-scams/

I promised another shoe would fall... here is part one of the VexTrio origin story. It is just too big for one entry, so a few more will come in the next few weeks... and this is still a small fraction of what we know. The story of malicious adtech has long legs.

We had great reception at BlackHat. One of the most common questions was: why are you giving this talk? Simple. It's a story that needs to be told and one that is too big to carry alone. We are looking for message carriers in the media, champions in the government, partners in the industry.

Organized crime, predominantly Russian speaking, has a strong foothold in the advertising world - and they are ensuring the delivery of everything from dating scams to information stealers. Let's root them out together.

boosts for awareness appreciated.

#dns #threatintel #scam #malware #infosec #cybersecurity #cybercrime #infoblox

https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/vextrios-origin-story-from-spam-to-scam-to-adtech/

Today on Okazu – Into the Baiheverse: When We Met and The Clouds of Past Millennia

Okazu Staff Writer @hecker introduces us to new Baihe publisher Baiheverse, with a look at two of their initial works in English. He encourages fans to check them out on https://bsky.app/profile/baiheverse.com and https://x.com/baiheverse.

https://okazu.yuricon.com/2025/07/04/into-the-baiheverse-when-we-met-and-the-clouds-of-past-millennia/