Posted on 07/20/2024 7:33:15 AM PDT by blueplum
CrowdStrike Intelligence has since observed threat actors leveraging the event to distribute a malicious ZIP archive named crowdstrike-hotfix.zip. The ZIP archive contains a HijackLoader payload...Notably, Spanish filenames and instructions within the ZIP archive indicate this campaign is likely targeting Latin America-based (LATAM) CrowdStrike customers.
(Excerpt) Read more at crowdstrike.com ...
huh?
> crowdstrike-hotfix.zip
Any sysadmin that opens an email with a file named “crowdstrike-hotfix.zip” deserves what happens to them. ;-)
>> Any sysadmin that opens an email with a file named “crowdstrike-hotfix.zip” deserves what happens to them. ;-)
Yeah, but the company they serve may not deserve it.
In other news, I wonder how long before CrowdStrike is bankrupt. They RICHLY deserve THAT.
I wonder why they assume the Spanish indicates the target, and not the source.
Are the instructions ONLY in Spanish?
Most programmers want to comment and debug in a language they can read. A programming language may force English (for now), but the rest doesn’t.
Somewhat curious whether Crowd-strike was shorted and someone made a load of coin off this “cyber attack”.
Yeah but the sysadmin job was outsourced so they weren’t making that much money and they just moved on.
I’m not techie, just a very old guy enjoying the ride. However, when I read the word “Crowdsource’ I immediately thought back to 2016 when Hilary claimed her computers had been hacked by Russian operatives. She should have turned them over to the FBI for investigation but she didn’t. She called in a private company called “CrowdSource.” It then supposedly confirmed the claim it was a Russian effort to interfere with the election. That claim later was found to be false. Or was a different company??
engish please
No, the same company, your memory serves you well.
The case could be made, at least some of the time, that they should have hired a sysadmin that knows what he is doing. Maybe IT is the wrong place for DEI.
>> The case could be made, at least some of the time, that they should have hired a sysadmin that knows what he is doing. Maybe IT is the wrong place for DEI.
You are spot on in that observation. I initially wrote “company they serve does not deserve it”, but changed it to “may not deserve” because I recognized the truth as you stated it.
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