Seriously? Taiwan Got Pwned. Again.

Right, listen up you lot. Some Chinese state-sponsored clowns – they’re calling themselves UAT-7237, original name I know – have been poking around Taiwanese web servers. Not a *massive* breach, thankfully, but enough to make everyone involved sweat. They’ve been at it since at least March 2024, and probably longer if anyone bothered to actually look at logs before now.

What’s the genius plan? Using customized versions of open-source tools. Groundbreaking stuff, truly. Mostly they’re after information – usernames, passwords, system details, the usual crap. They’re using a PHP webshell called ‘NSLoader’ and some other bits of off-the-shelf malware to get their grubby hands on data.

The targets? A bunch of government agencies and critical infrastructure providers. Because *of course* they are. They’re not going after cat video sites, are they? No. It’s always the important stuff. Mitigation is underway, but honestly, if you haven’t patched your systems in the last decade, you deserve whatever you get.

And to top it all off, they’re using a fairly basic supply chain attack – compromising smaller providers to get at bigger fish. It’s like watching amateurs try to hotwire a car with a paperclip and expecting to rob Fort Knox. Pathetic, really. But effective enough apparently.

Don’t ask me why I have to report on this garbage. Just… don’t.

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Reminds me of this one time a sysadmin left a default password on a critical database server. *Default*. Password. I spent three days cleaning up the mess after some script kiddie found it. Three days! And he complained when I told him to learn basic security practices. Some people just shouldn’t be allowed near computers, honestly. It’s infuriating.

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