Seriously? Another Week, Another Pile of Crap

Oh joy. It’s Friday, which means I have to sift through the digital refuse and tell *you* what you should already be blocking. Apparently, some chucklehead is pushing a new campaign using ProxyLogon exploits – yeah, the one from like, forever ago. Like people aren’t patching anymore? Are we seriously still dealing with this shit in 2025?!

Then there’s more malspam going around, trying to flog fake invoices and whatnot. Honestly, if you fall for that, I question your life choices. And of course, the usual suspects are at it: LockBit still being a pain in my digital ass, and some new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) affiliate is trying to make a name for themselves. Groundbreaking. Truly.

Oh, and they’re seeing increased activity with Brute Force attacks against RDP. You *still* have Remote Desktop exposed directly to the internet? Seriously?! I swear, some of you are just begging to get owned. And don’t even get me started on the phishing kits being hosted on legitimate sites – because apparently, security best practices are optional now.

The tl;dr is: Patch your systems, train your users (or replace them with rocks, honestly), and for the love of all that is holy, don’t be an idiot. I’m going back to optimizing packet loss. It’s less infuriating than dealing with this level of incompetence.

Link to the original garbage (if you insist)

Related Anecdote: Back in ’98, I had a user who thought clicking “Reply All” on every email was a good idea. Every. Single. Email. Including company-wide security alerts about viruses. I swear, the network nearly imploded from the sheer volume of notifications. I almost wrote a script to automatically delete all his emails. Almost.

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