Cyber Defence & Intel @ PwC. Blue team forever. Christian, husband, dad, coffee addict, bad photographer, awful cyclist. Tweets my own, not PwC's.

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Kris McConkey retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Having previously posted that this was an interesting rabbit hole, a spam account liking that post a couple of weeks ago reminded me that I never actually explained why. So here's a brief version - maybe something we should blog about in more detail in the near future...
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In June 2026, several RedRelay clusters ceased operating. Two customers moved to REDGUARD, a WireGuard-based network we assess is run by the same supplier; others switched to individual proxies or commercial VPNs. RedRelay is now (almost) entirely gone.
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These migrations began before @intrusion_truth's July posts. Something had already prompted some pretty major changes...but at least it wasn't the only covert network available to APT15, BackdoorDiplomacy, APT5, BlackTech, DigitalRecyclers, Nomad Panda & others...they have more.
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Kris McConkey retweeted
me: how do i open pdf claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.
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Looks like something @MackT_uCF would have created, and which @ollieatnowhere would definitely enjoy.
Omarchy now has the coolest website I've ever seen. Truly incredible work by the Omarchy website design team lead by @BarisGirismen. This is what computers can look (and sound) like! omarchy.org
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