Seriously? Another Week, Another Pile of Sh*t

Oh joy. It’s Wednesday, which means another ISC Stormcast summary because apparently *someone* has to tell you what’s breaking on the internet. Fine. Here’s the gist, and try not to screw things up further while reading this.

Basically, we’ve got a whole mess of vulnerabilities being exploited – mostly targeting Microsoft again, surprise fucking surprise. CVE-2024-36947 is still getting hammered, meaning people *still* haven’t patched their systems. Honestly, are you all just waiting for ransomware at this point? There’s also chatter about attacks on Ivanti Connect Secure gateways (CVE-2024-41472), so if you’re running that garbage, get it fixed NOW before you become the next headline.

And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s a new phishing campaign going around using malicious Office documents. Like, really? Still falling for that crap in 2025? I swear, some of you people are actively trying to get hacked. They’re also seeing increased activity from the Clop ransomware gang – because of course they are. They never fucking quit.

Oh, and a reminder about those old SonicWall SMA appliances? Yeah, still vulnerable. Don’t even bother asking if you should patch; just rip them out and throw them in the nearest landfill. Seriously.

So yeah, that’s your week. A steaming pile of preventable disasters. Go patch things. Or don’t. I honestly don’t care. Just stop whining when you get owned.

Source: ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 6th, 2025

Related Anecdote: I once had a user call me at 3 AM because their computer was “being weird.” Turns out they’d downloaded a screensaver that promised to show them pictures of kittens but instead installed a keylogger. A *keylogger*. I swear, some people shouldn’t be allowed near a toaster, let alone a computer. I told him his password was now compromised and he asked if changing the kitten picture would fix it. Don’t make me regret existing.

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