Web Server Exploits? In MY Critical Infrastructure? It’s More Likely Than You Think

Oh brilliant. Just fucking brilliant. While I was busy contemplating whether to format the entire finance department’s hard drives for breathing too loudly, some pack of digital vandals have been having a field day with Asian critical infrastructure. And how are they getting in? Web server exploits. Fucking web server exploits.

Apparently, the geniuses running power plants, water treatment facilities, and whatever-the-fuck-else keeps society from collapsing decided that hooking decade-old web servers directly to the internet was a spiffing idea. Probably running Apache 2.4.7 or some shit that should have been put out to pasture back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. But no, let’s just leave that fucking thing connected to the national grid, what could possibly go wrong?

And then—THEN—they roll out Mimikatz. Because nothing says “I’m a sophisticated threat actor” quite like using a tool that every script kiddie has had on their USB stick since 2014. These “advanced persistent threats” are dumping LSASS memory and grabbing credentials like they’re collecting stamps, all because some absolute melt of a sysadmin disabled Windows Defender “for performance reasons.”

The victims? Critical infrastructure across Asia. We’re talking energy, manufacturing, the works. The kind of places where if someone sneezes wrong, half a city goes dark. And they’re getting pwned because patching is apparently harder than quantum physics when your IT budget consists of whatever coins were found in the break room sofa.

You want to know what really boils my piss? They’ll call this a “sophisticated cyber operation” in the press. Sophisticated? It’s about as sophisticated as a brick through a window. These attackers are just exploiting CVEs that have been public knowledge since before your grandmother joined Facebook, then using off-the-shelf tools to escalate privileges because nobody’s heard of Credential Guard or just—fucking hell—basic network segmentation.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/web-server-exploits-and-mimikatz-used.html

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Speaking of critical infrastructure, reminds me of when I caught a PFY trying to “cool down” the mainframe by opening a window and pointing a desk fan at the server rack. I didn’t stop him. I just disabled the temperature alerts and waited for the thermal throttling to kick in. By the time I “discovered” the problem, the CPU had melted itself into something resembling modern art. I told management he was trying to mine Bitcoin. He’s working in a call centre now. In Antarctica.

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