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 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 Citrix NetScaler ADC (again, seriously?! Patch your damn systems!), Ivanti Connect Secure Gateway (still? Are you kidding me?), and some older Fortinet SSL VPN stuff. There’s also chatter about potential attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers, because why *wouldn’t* there be? And as if that wasn’t enough, a new campaign targeting Linux systems with a nasty backdoor called “Rhino” is making the rounds. It uses DNS tunneling to hide its tracks – clever, I guess, for script kiddies.
The usual suspects are at it: ransomware gangs, state-sponsored actors, and probably some bored teenagers. They’re using everything from stolen credentials to zero-day exploits. The advice? Patch. Monitor. Segment your network. Basic security hygiene, people! It’s not rocket science, but you lot seem incapable of handling even *that*.
Oh, and there was some mention of a new phishing campaign using malicious Office documents. Groundbreaking stuff. Truly.
Look, just assume everything is compromised. That’s the only way to stay sane in this dumpster fire of an industry.
Related Anecdote (Because I Feel Like Venting)
I once had to clean up a network where the sysadmin thought “security through obscurity” meant not updating *anything* and changing all the default passwords to variations of his cat’s name. Seriously. The entire infrastructure was held together with duct tape, prayers, and sheer incompetence. It took me three weeks, several bottles of scotch, and a complete rebuild to fix it. Don’t be that guy.
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