go to the cloud they said
itll be fine they said

https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/

Terrifying Things Overheard On My Employer's #Crowdstrike Struck Us And The Company is Dead in the Water Bridge Call, partial list:

(I will keep adding to this as I hear more)

• "I saw an 'it worked for me' fix on Reddit and tried it on a Production host"
• "I can't get into our password manager because it's managed by LDAP and LDAP is down and the break-glass passwords are in the password manager"
• "Give me ten minutes and I'll have a script to reboot any Windows hosts that are still online for you."
• Four hours in: "I'm going to start spinning up a new Windows VM in the QA environment to test fixes in." (emphasis mine)
• "Try it in Firefox."
• Confusion by supposed IT experts in the call with respect to difference between a slash (/) and a backslash (\), complete with some extremely confident incorrect arguments for which is which.
• "Let's get Production up and running first and then work on testing the fix on the Dev, QA, and Testing environments."
• "[Name redacted], what are you working on?" "I'm just admiring the Reddit thread." (wat.)
• "I'm going to stop the running backups so that we have more resources to run restorations." (to the speaker's credit this is the first time I have heard the word "resource" used not to refer to a person which is a personal bugaboo of mine)

(final update: they still haven't found a good way to coordinate getting the fix pushed out and my shift ended a while ago; I've been hanging on the call for the primary purpose of getting more terrifying quotes for this list. Good luck to all the IT folks out here dealing with this mess!)

(okay, one more that I heard just as I was hanging up)

• "Hey, maybe we should look into removing the duplicates from this spreadsheet?"

Last week, the United States joined the U.K. and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. LockBit's leader "LockBitSupp" claims the feds named the wrong guy, saying the charges don't explain how they connected him to Khoroshev. This post examines the activities of Khoroshev's many alter egos on the cybercrime forums, and tracks the career of a gifted malware author who has written and sold malicious code for the past 14 years.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/how-did-authorities-identify-the-alleged-lockbit-boss/