Seriously? Another Week, Another Pile of Sh*t
Oh joy. It’s Monday, and you know what that means: more security crap to deal with. Apparently, the internet is *still* a dumpster fire. This week’s ISC Stormcast – because who needs sleep when there are vulnerabilities to patch? – highlights a bunch of nonsense I’m expected to care about.
Let me break it down for you, since apparently explaining things slowly is necessary these days. There’s a critical vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure gateways (CVE-2024-41753). Yeah, another one. Remote code execution? Fantastic. They’re patching like crazy, but if you haven’t updated yet, consider your network toast. Seriously, toast.
Then there’s a heap overflow in XZ Utils that was almost catastrophic. Some supply chain shenanigans where malicious code nearly made it into widely used compression tools. Luckily some people noticed something was off before it got *too* bad. But you know what? It could have been worse, much worse.
And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s a new campaign targeting Veeam Backup & Replication servers with ransomware. Because why bother finding new ways to screw things up when you can just reuse the old ones? They are exploiting a known vulnerability (CVE-2023-27581) so update your damn systems!
Oh, and there’s some chatter about more phishing campaigns and general malware nonsense. Groundbreaking stuff, really. Like I haven’t seen that before.
Basically, the internet is still full of idiots writing bad code and even bigger idiots falling for scams. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Now go patch your systems before I have to personally come over there and do it for you (and charge you an exorbitant fee).
Related Anecdote: Back in ’98, I had a user who thought clicking “Yes” on every single pop-up window was a good idea. Every. Single. One. Took me three days to clean up the mess. Three days of my life wasted because someone couldn’t read. Honestly, sometimes I think humanity deserves what it gets.
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