hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦This is legit a Christmas miracle b/c I rly did not want to spend the break tending to #React2Shell
Alireza Gharib3/3 The Fix:
✅ Update React to 19.2.3+ (Fixes RCE, DoS, and Info Disclosure).
✅ Restrict internet exposure on Cisco AsyncOS appliances.
✅ Audit your Oracle EBS instances for zero-day patches.
Stay safe out there, Blue Team. It’s going to be a long month. ☕🛡️
#CyberSecurity #BlueTeam #React2Shell #ZeroDay #Infosec #SOC
Stefan Beierle🚨 Stop chasing patches. Fix the architecture.
-> https://zenodo.org/records/17969178
React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) isn't just a vulnerability—it's a structural failure of modern Cloud/Node architectures.
While "gurus" talk about patching, I’m releasing the Holiday Minimal Mode (HMM).
there's just *barely* enough #React2Shell IPs to stuff'em on a hilbert (open in a local viewer for better idea of how spread out the IPs are)
The New OilCritical #React2Shell flaw exploited in #ransomware attacks
Super cool #React2Shell interactive "explorer" by dan abramov
Does a fantastic job showing how/why the exploit works.
#China, #Iran are having a field day with #React2Shell, #Google warns
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/react2shell_flaw_china_iran/
*Almost* have mad respect for this #React2Shell payload. Talk about living off the land!
Forget dropping malware binaries.
Let's just turn the Node.js instance Next.js is running on into a full-fledged SOCKS5 proxy!
Wld have far more respect if they named the file `X2-lock` or something else vs. `socks5.js`.
Stefan Beierle | Operator-Level SecurityHoliday Security for Blue Teams (SIEM / SOAR / EDR / SOC)
Most serious security incidents don’t happen during normal business hours.
They happen during holidays, weekends, and reduced-staff periods — exactly when detection-heavy security models struggle.
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📄 Open access report (CC BY-NC-SA):
https://lnkd.in/gvbHaBBZ
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I’ve published Holiday Minimal Mode, a deterministic Blue Team security posture designed specifically for holiday operations and crisis periods.
The focus is not better detection —
it is enforceable restriction across:
• SIEM & SOAR (policy-as-enforcement, not dashboards)
• EDR containment-first workflows
• Firewall / network default-deny
• Cloud control-plane isolation
• Kubernetes & workload tripwires
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Core idea:
If a behavior is not strictly required during holidays, it must not exist.
The playbook defines:
forbidden system states
deterministic tripwires (“touched = breach”)
containment-before-analysis rules
temporary rollback-safe enforcement
It is intentionally conservative and optimized for:
reduced staffing, delayed response, and elevated attacker activity.
Written for SOC teams, Blue Teams, security architects and CISOs who prefer
policy-enforced stability over interpretive detection during holidays.
#Google links more Chinese hacking groups to #React2Shell attacks
