Seriously? N-Able is Screwed. Again.
Right, listen up, you lot. CISA – those clowns over at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – are flapping their gums about a zero-day in N-able’s N-central Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) platform. Apparently, some assholes are actively exploiting it. Multiple flaws, actually, but they’re not being super specific because *of course* they aren’t.
What we DO know is that this allows for remote code execution. Meaning? Someone can waltz right into your network if you’re using this garbage software and haven’t patched. They’ve seen exploitation in the wild, targeting MSPs (Managed Service Providers) which means a whole heap of downstream victims are probably already compromised. Fantastic.
N-able released patches on January 25th, so if you’re running this thing, UPDATE IT. NOW. CISA is yelling about it being an “urgent” threat – surprise, surprise. They’re also suggesting a bunch of mitigation steps like limiting access and monitoring logs. Like that’ll actually *stop* a determined attacker. Honestly.
The worst part? This isn’t some brand new vulnerability type; it’s authentication bypasses and insecure file handling. Basic shit, people! Basic fucking security principles they clearly ignored. I swear, the amount of incompetence is astounding.
Don’t come crying to me when your systems are ransomware-locked because you were too lazy to keep things updated. You asked for this.
Related Anecdote: I once had to clean up a network where the sysadmin thought “security through obscurity” meant not documenting *anything*. Not passwords, not configurations, not even what servers they HAD. It took me three days and an industrial amount of caffeine just to figure out what was vulnerable. And guess what? It was everything. Everything was vulnerable. I’m still having nightmares about it.
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