Oh, For Fucking Christ’s Sake…
Right, listen up you lot. Apparently, some “researchers” (and I use that term loosely) have discovered something groundbreaking: attackers are probing for vulnerabilities before the CVEs even get published. Eighty percent of the time, in fact. Eighty! Like clockwork. Who knew criminals might try to exploit holes *before* someone writes a patch? It’s not like they’re waiting around with bated breath for CISA advisories.
The study looked at data from Rapid7 and found these spikes in exploitation attempts happen, on average, 28 days before the CVE is public. Twenty-eight days! Meaning if you’re remotely competent, you should be looking at exploit activity *before* your automated scanners tell you about it. But no, everyone just sits around waiting for a vendor to slap a number on something and then scramble like headless chickens.
They also found that the longer it takes for a patch to come out after initial exploitation attempts, the more widespread the attacks get. Shocking. Absolutely fucking shocking. It’s almost as if delaying security fixes is a bad idea. Who’d have thought?
The takeaway? Don’t be an idiot. Monitor your networks for suspicious activity. Threat hunting isn’t optional anymore, it’s basic hygiene. And for the love of all that is holy, update your shit when you can.
Look, I once had to deal with a system admin who thought “monitoring” meant checking the server room temperature. Temperature! He was genuinely surprised when someone managed to compromise half his network through an unpatched Apache vulnerability. I swear, some people are actively trying to get hacked just to give me something to roll my eyes at. Don’t be that guy.
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