When Hackers Play in Telecoms: The UAT-7290 Clusterfuck

Right, gather round, you miserable sods, because apparently someone thought it would be a brilliant idea to go poking around South Asian telecom networks again. Cisco Talos dropped this banger of a report about some sneaky bastards dubbed UAT-7290. These cyber-arseholes have been rummaging through high-value telecom infrastructure like it’s a bloody clearance sale on sensitive data.

These wankers aren’t your garden-variety script kiddies, oh no — they’re coordinated, quiet, and really fucking patient. They’re making themselves right at home in networks that keep the damn region connected. Typical stealthy cyber-espionage bullshit: sneaky loader here, malicious binary there, and before you know it, boom — your data’s halfway across the world and your SOC team’s wondering who left the firewall open like a pub door during happy