Seriously? Another Week, Another Pile of Sh*t

Oh joy. It’s Friday, which means another ISC Stormcast summary because apparently *someone* has to tell you what’s going wrong with the internet. Fine. Here’s the gist, and try not to screw things up further while I explain it.

This week’s highlights (and by “highlights” I mean lowlights) include a bunch of CVEs popping up like goddamn weeds. Specifically, they’re whining about vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi – yeah, the virtualization platform everyone and their mother uses. Patch it, you lazy bastards! It’s not rocket science.

Then there’s a whole mess of stuff with Microsoft products, as usual. Because *of course* there is. They’re talking about flaws in Office, Azure… the whole damn suite. Honestly, I’m starting to think Microsoft just intentionally leaves holes for people to find so they can sell more “security” features. Don’t even get me started on the ProxyShell stuff still lingering around. It’s been ages, fix your systems!

Oh, and some chatter about malicious actors targeting critical infrastructure again. Surprise, surprise. Like anyone’s actually surprised at this point. They also mentioned a new campaign using Lazarus Group tactics – because why *wouldn’t* they? It’s always the same players doing the same crap.

Basically, it’s another week of patching, scanning, and generally being paranoid. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when your systems get pwned. Now leave me alone; I have better things to do than summarize incompetence.

Link to the original mess (if you actually care)

And another thing…

I once had to deal with a sysadmin who refused to patch his servers because “it might break things.” Might break things?! His entire network was running Windows XP and Server 2003. It *was* already broken, you idiot! I swear, some people just want to watch the world burn. Don’t be that guy.

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