900+ FreePBX Instances Pwnt Because Admins Can’t Patch For Shit

Oh for fuck’s sake. Nine hundred. Nine. Hundred. Plus. That’s how many Sangoma FreePBX boxes are currently bent over and taking it up the exhaust port from some script-kiddie-wannabe-APT crew who figured out that Asterisk-based PBX systems are about as secure as a chocolate teapot in a microwave.

Apparently, these morons couldn’t be arsed to patch CVE-2024-43425, a bloody Remote Code Execution vulnerability that’s been public knowledge since the dinosaurs roamed the datacenter. So now they’ve got web shells planted faster than you can say “have you tried turning it off and on again?” The attackers are dropping PHP backdoors into the modules directory like they’re planting fucking tulips in spring, giving them persistent access to make free international calls, mine crypto, or probably just listen to Karen from accounting complain about her printer for shits and giggles.

And the best part? Most of these admins probably don’t even know they’re compromised because they’re too busy playing Candy Crush in the server room to check their goddamn logs. If you’re running FreePBX and haven’t updated since the Bush administration, congratulations, you’re now part of a botnet. Do the world a favor: unplug that beige box of horrors, burn it, scatter the ashes at a crossroads, and go join a monastery where you can’t harm any more electrons.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/900-sangoma-freepbx-instances.html

Back when I was running the mainframe at a university, some lecturer decided to host the campus PBX on a spare 286 he found in a skip. When it got compromised—surprise, fucking surprise—I “accidentally” spilled coffee into the power supply while he was demonstrating his “intrusion detection system,” which turned out to be just a sticky note saying “Don’t Hack Me Bro” on the monitor. The resultant electrical fire solved our security issues permanently, and the insurance money bought us a proper bloody SIP trunk.

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