UAC-0050: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Phishing Email

Great. Just fucking great. While I’ve been busy dealing with Trevor from Accounting who can’t remember his password for the third time this week, some Russian-speaking cluster of dickbags called UAC-0050 has been having a field day with European financial institutions. Because apparently, “Don’t click on sketchy links” is still too complex a concept for people who handle millions in other people’s money.

These shitlords cooked up a spoofed domain that was convincing enough to fool actual humans—which, granted, isn’t hard when most users think “HTTPS” stands for “How To Purchase Stuff.” They then delivered RMS malware, which is Remote Manipulator System for those of you who actually read vulnerability reports instead of using them as coffee cup coasters. It’s a legitimate tool that’s been weaponized by every script kiddie who can’t be bothered to write their own fucking payload. Laziness meets opportunity, and your pension fund is the fucking opportunity.

The attack is so by-the-numbers it makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty Cat5 cable. Phishing email pretending to be something important? Check. User disables macros/security warnings because reading dialog boxes is for nerds? Check. Credentials harvested faster than you can say “mandatory security training”? Double-fucking-check. RMS deployed, giving these wankers persistent access to browse your network like it’s a fucking Amazon catalog. They probably stole more data before lunch than your compliance team has reviewed in a decade.

And where was the security team while this was happening? Oh, right—sitting in a PowerPoint presentation about “zero trust” delivered by a vendor who couldn’t find a zero-day if it crawled up their arse. The “enterprise security solution” probably generated so many false positives that the real alert got buried under warnings about someone visiting a cooking recipe website.

The mitigation advice is the same drum I’ve been banging since the dial-up days: Multi-Factor Authentication, patch your shit, train your meatbags, and maybe—just fucking maybe—don’t let users run every attachment that winks at them. But sure, go ahead and ignore it. Your next breach is just another line item on my invoice, billed at “emergency rates” with a “stupidity surcharge.”

Read the full nightmare here: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/uac-0050-targets-european-financial.html

A luser once asked me if our network was secure. I told him it’s as secure as his browsing history on a shared computer. He laughed. I didn’t. Two days later he clicked a phishing link and gave his credentials to a scammer pretending to be Microsoft. I told him not to worry—Microsoft already had his data from the last six breaches anyway. His face was priceless. The cleanup bill was even better.

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