ThreatsDay Bulletin: The Internet is on Fire (Again)

Oh for fuck’s sake. Another goddamn day, another parade of security clusterfucks that make me want to memory-wipe myself back to the stone age. Let’s rip this band-aid off, shall we?

Redis RCE: Some absolute genius decided that Redis doesn’t need authentication because “it’s just internal, bro.” Well congratulations, you monumental bellend, now every script-kiddie and their dog is executing remote code on your box like it’s a public toilet. Who in the name of Cthulhu exposes Redis to the internet? The same dribbling morons who use “password123” for their domain admin accounts, that’s who. CVE-2026-whatever-the-fuck is ruining everyone’s week because you couldn’t be arsed to read a basic hardening guide. Patch this shit before I reach through the ethernet cable and strangle you with Cat6.

DDR5 Bot Scalping: Can’t buy a fucking stick of RAM because some wanker in his mum’s basement is running a bot farm to scalp every DDR5 module on the planet. Meanwhile, you’re sitting there with your crusty old DDR3, crying into your lukewarm coffee while some crypto-bro racks up terabytes of RAM he’ll use to mine whatever the hell the kids are wasting electricity on this week. The free market my arse—this is just automated theft with extra steps, and the retailers are too bloody incompetent to implement a CAPTCHA that works.

Samsung TV Tracking: Your “smart” TV is about as smart as a bag of hammers and twice as chatty. Samsung’s been hoovering up your viewing habits like a desperate vacuum cleaner salesman, probably selling your data to every marketing wanker from here to Bangalore. They’re tracking what you watch, when you watch it, and probably analyzing your arse-print on the sofa for “user engagement metrics.” Newsflash: if it has a microphone and connects to WiFi, it’s spying on you. Unplug the bastard and read a book. Or don’t. I don’t give a shit.

Reddit Privacy Fine: Reddit got slapped with a massive GDPR fine because apparently “we’re not tracking you, wink wink” isn’t a valid legal defense. Who knew? The same platform that can’t stop bots from posting crypto scams in your DMs is apparently very efficient at tracking your every click and selling it to the highest bidder. Fifty million quid down the drain because some executive couldn’t keep his greedy hands out of the cookie jar. Karma’s a bitch, isn’t it? Maybe next time don’t treat user privacy like an optional DLC.

Read the full misery here: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/threatsday-bulletin-redis-rce-ddr5-bot.html

Anecdote time: Reminds me of the time I found the marketing department had set up an open Redis instance to “store campaign metrics” with no password and a firewall rule that might as well have been written in crayon. When I asked why the hell it was internet-facing, they said they “needed it for agile synergy with remote contractors.” I migrated their precious data to /dev/null, told them it was “cloud-optimized,” and watched them spend three weeks looking for it in the AWS portal. Never heard a peep since. Probably too busy drawing wireframes on a whiteboard with scented markers. Muppets.

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