Seriously? Another Fucking APT Group…

Oh, joy. As if we don’t have enough problems, some lazy-ass group calling themselves “ShadowSilk” is poking around in the networks of 36 organizations – mostly governments, because *of course* it’s governments. Central Asia and APAC are their playgrounds this time. What a shocker.

They’re using Telegram bots. Telegram bots! Like that’s some kind of sophisticated attack vector. Honestly, the bar for “advanced persistent threat” is in the goddamn basement these days. They’re phishing people with links to these bots, getting credentials, and then just waltzing into systems like they own the place.

The usual crap: info-stealing malware (Subrik), reconnaissance, trying to find more victims. They’ve been at it since *at least* 2023, so someone’s been slow on the uptake. Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence are involved now, which means a lot of reports nobody will actually read until after they get hit themselves.

Basically, update your security shit, train your users not to click everything, and for the love of all that is holy, stop using Telegram for sensitive stuff. Is that really so hard? I swear, I deal with this garbage every day. It’s exhausting.

Read the full, painfully predictable story here

And another thing…

Reminds me of that time a sysadmin thought he was being clever using WhatsApp for “secure” file transfers. Lost his entire network to ransomware within 48 hours. I told him so. He didn’t like it. Serves ’em right, honestly.

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