Seriously? Cloudflare, AGAIN?!

Oh joy. Another “sophisticated” supply chain attack. This time it’s Cloudflare getting their bits and pieces compromised because some other companies – Salesloft and Drift, apparently – couldn’t secure their own goddamn systems. Like, what the actual fuck?

Basically, some assholes managed to get access to credentials used by Cloudflare employees *through* these two vendors. This allowed them to snoop around in Cloudflare’s internal tools, specifically their Atlassian Jira and Confluence instances. They didn’t grab any customer data (thank god, for once), but they did steal source code, API keys, and other sensitive internal crap.

Cloudflare is saying it was a limited breach, rotating credentials, and doing the usual security theater bullshit. Salesloft and Drift are scrambling to figure out what went wrong – probably something stupid like weak passwords or not using MFA. Honestly, you’d think companies dealing with sensitive data would have this shit locked down by now.

The attackers were in there for a while, too. They’ve been poking around since early December. So yeah, expect more fallout from this one. It’s just fantastic. More work for everyone because some people can’t be bothered to do basic security hygiene.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that this highlights how utterly reliant everything is on third-party vendors and how much risk *that* introduces. It’s a clusterfuck, plain and simple.

Source: Cloudflare Hit by Data Breach in Salesloft, Drift Supply Chain Attack

Speaking of supply chain issues… I once had to debug a system where the entire network went down because someone decided to “optimize” the firmware on a goddamn toaster oven. A *toaster oven*. It was connected to the network for “remote monitoring” or some other equally idiotic reason. Seriously, people are morons. And now Cloudflare is dealing with this mess. Don’t even ask.

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