Seriously? SystemBC is at it AGAIN.

Right, so some script kiddie operation – they’re calling themselves SystemBC, because originality died years ago – has launched a Remote Execution Malware (REM) proxy thingy. Basically, they’ve compromised roughly 1500 VPS servers *daily*. Daily! Like clockwork. It’s not even a particularly clever attack; it leverages known vulnerabilities and weak credentials. Honestly, the bar for security these days is subterranean.

They’re using 80 Command & Control (C2) servers to manage this mess, spread across various cloud providers. They’re targeting Linux boxes mostly, because apparently securing Windows is *too* hard. The whole thing is built on a PHP script and some basic shell commands. It’s pathetic, frankly.

And the worst part? They’re selling access to these compromised VPSes. Selling them! Like they actually put effort into anything beyond running a script. The article says it’s being used for botnets, spam, and other delightful internet garbage. Fantastic. Just what we needed.

They claim to have over 1500 daily victims, but let’s be real, half of those are probably honeypots or servers nobody cares about. Still, it’s enough to cause headaches for someone, and that someone is usually *me* cleaning up the fallout.

Don’t bother asking me for mitigation advice. Patch your systems, use strong passwords, and maybe, just maybe, consider not running a server if you don’t know what you’re doing. Is that too much to ask?

Read the full, infuriating story here

Speaking of pathetic security… I once had to deal with a sysadmin who used “password” as his root password on *every* server. Every. Single. One. I swear, sometimes I think people actively try to get hacked just to give me something to do. Don’t be that guy.

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