Oh, Joy. Another Ransomware Victim.

Right, listen up, you lot. Asahi, the beer company? Yeah, them. They got hit by Qilin ransomware. Shocking. Absolutely fucking shocking. Like they didn’t see this coming. Probably running Windows XP and hoping for the best.

Apparently, some data was leaked on a dark web portal after Asahi refused to pay the ransom. We’re talking personal info of employees, customers – the usual mess. They claim it wasn’t *critical* infrastructure, which is what they all say, isn’t it? Like your customer database isn’t critical when you’re trying to sell overpriced lager.

Qilin’s been around for a bit now, using pretty standard tactics – exploiting vulnerabilities, gaining access, encrypting everything. It’s not exactly rocket science, people! And the leak site? Hosted on some dodgy onion service, naturally. Honestly, it’s just… pathetic.

They’re “investigating” and working with authorities. Oh, good for them. That’ll fix everything. Meanwhile, their data is floating around the internet like a bad hangover. I swear, if I had a nickel for every company that said they were “investigating” after getting ransomware’d…

Don’t bother asking me for advice. Patch your systems, use multi-factor authentication, and *maybe* don’t be so complacent. But you won’t listen, will you? You never do.

Source: BleepingComputer

Speaking of incompetence, I once had to remotely debug a server farm for a brewery that was using Excel spreadsheets to manage their entire inventory. Excel! The whole thing crashed because someone accidentally overwrote the production schedule with a list of beer garden songs. Seriously. People are idiots.

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