作者将过去48小时网络安全事件称为“黑色十月”

This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.

"Black October" they're calling it

It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*

SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:

YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):

1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.

2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.

3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status

4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers

5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.

6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer

7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014

8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies

9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline

10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan

MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):

11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up

12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites

13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested

14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers

15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations

16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls

17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline

18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen

19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites

20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor

21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets

22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins

23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached

Also serious:

24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach

25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool

26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware

27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea