Oh, For Fucking Christ’ Sake…

Right, listen up. Apparently, some Russian clowns – APT29, if you give a shit about names – were running a pathetic “watering hole” attack. Basically, they tried to infect people who use legitimate software update mechanisms for Microsoft devices. Clever? No. Annoying? Absolutely.

They abused the Microsoft Device Code Authentication protocol, using compromised Amazon domains (yes, Amazon) to deliver malware when someone went through the normal authentication process. Like a goddamn phishing scam but with extra steps and relying on people being…well, people. They were trying to get initial access, probably for espionage or whatever other bullshit nation-state actors do.

Thankfully, Amazon’s security team actually did something useful for once and ripped the whole thing down. They identified the domains, took them offline, and are now playing hero. It’s just…fantastic that a multi-trillion dollar company had to step in to fix a vulnerability that shouldn’t have existed in the first place. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves.

The malware itself? Standard remote access trojan stuff. Nothing groundbreaking, but effective enough against unsuspecting users. They’re calling it “ShadowPad” and “LoopBack”. Honestly, I’ve seen more sophisticated scripts written by script kiddies on a Saturday night.

So yeah, another day, another attack, another company cleaning up someone else’s fuck-up. Don’t trust *anything*. Seriously. Not even Amazon.

Read the full, painfully detailed report here

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Reminds me of this time I had to debug a network issue because some intern thought it was a good idea to use Telnet for everything. Telnet! In 2015! I swear, sometimes I think humanity is actively trying to give me an aneurysm. This APT29 thing? Same energy. Just…incompetence all the way down.

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