Seriously, Another One.

Oh joy. Some clowns are exploiting a vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver – surprise, surprise. It’s not like security researchers haven’t been banging on about this crap for ages. Apparently, it lets them deploy “Auto Color” malware on Linux systems. Auto Color? Sounds like something my grandma would use to decorate her living room, not a piece of malicious software designed to compromise enterprise infrastructure.

The gist is they’re abusing a flaw in the message server to get code execution. They’re targeting unpatched systems – which, let me tell you, is just *shocking*. If you haven’t updated your SAP stuff, you deserve whatever happens. It’s not rocket science; patch your damn servers! They use this to install a backdoor and then… well, who knows what they do after that? Steal data, probably. Ransom it. Generally be awful. Standard hacker fare.

The article mentions the attackers are using a pretty sophisticated chain of exploits, but honestly, if you’re running vulnerable SAP systems, you’ve already lost half the battle. It’s like leaving your front door wide open and then complaining when someone walks in and takes your TV. Mitigation? Patch. Update. Secure. It’s not hard! And for god’s sake, monitor your logs.

This isn’t a zero-day anymore; patches are available. If you’re still getting owned by this, I have no sympathy. None. Zero.

Source: BleepingComputer

And a story for ya…

Back in ’98, I had a sysadmin who refused to patch his Solaris box because “it was stable.” Stable like a house of cards in a hurricane. Got pwned by Code Red within 24 hours. He then proceeded to whine about how “sophisticated” the attack was. Sophisticated? It was a buffer overflow, you idiot! Patch your systems! Seriously.

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