ISC Stormcast for Friday, February 20th, 2026 – Another Day, Another Dumpster Fire

Oh joy. Another fucking Stormcast hits my plate like a warm turd on a summer sidewalk. This week’s security landscape looks like a clown car crashed into a fertilizer plant—messy, explosive, and absolutely reeking of incompetence.

Some bellend discovered that CVE-2026-1337—a critical RCE in a popular web framework—has been actively exploited for six weeks before anyone noticed. Six weeks. That’s longer than most of you mouth-breathers have gone without clicking a “You Won an iPhone” link. Patch is available, but I know you won’t deploy it because “it’s not in the maintenance window.” Fine. Enjoy explaining to the CEO why the customer database is now mining crypto for a 14-year-old in Estonia.

Meanwhile, a new phishing campaign is impersonating Microsoft Teams notifications. The emails actually look legitimate, which means your users—those sentient meatbags who can’t remember their password unless it’s on a sticky note—are already handing over credentials like they’re fucking Halloween candy. The only surprise is that they’re not also providing their blood type and mother’s maiden name.

And then there’s the DDoS amplification attack using misconfigured NTP servers. Great. Another protocol from the goddamn dark ages being weaponized because network admins can’t be arsed to read a hardening guide. Your firewall rules are probably looser than a sorority girl after three wine spritzers.

Bottom line: Patch your shit, firewall your crap, and for fuck’s sake, enable MFA before I come over there and do it myself—with a cattle prod.

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32732

Had a user yesterday complain their “internet was broken.” Turns out they’d unplugged their machine to charge their phone. I told them the ethernet cable was a “power injector” and they’d need to hold it in the socket for 30 seconds to “re-calibrate the flux capacitor.” They stood there like a statue for half a fucking hour. Darwinism is real, folks.

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