The report itself reeks of LLM slop with gems like the "kill chain", consisting of phases like recon, exfil, c2...and k8s :) Nuances are overemphasized (like how code execution was used to execute code) while important steps are blurry (e.g. they had some kind of "allowlist" in the dataset processor, that allowed everything which didn't look like a URL?).
I feel sorry for blue teams not because they'll have to respond to more incidents but because they'll have to wade through reports like this...
@drwhax Maybe the advice of the wiser among us will be heard after all these decades: focus on robust mitigations and attack surface reduction, because the moles can't be whacked anymore.
@bagder People probably pay less attention than you think (this is a general rule of thumb of mine), they may still assume there is monetary reward even without H1. IMO you should give it some time.
@d_olex Good question, but I'd argue that bytecode solves existing problems, while in case of LLM/blockchain I mostly don't see that. Also, isn't JIT specifically a thing to improve performance, meaning less resource consumption? A related observation is that many use-cases for LLMs can probably be solved much cheaper, today. E.g.: better IDE features; more QA for web search results; better education so people can write and understand an email.
@inthehands@timbray my first thought too, but if electron is compromised obsidian would not be among our primary concerns (esp. because according to this policy they would likely not update before the incident is noticed). So I think electron is more of an attack surface problem than a supply chain one.
@h0ng10@micahflee This is a fairly common mistake too and causes a lot of bullshit work for security teams. A banner string (*especially* in case of Apache HTTPd) doesn't mean anything, so unless you can demonstrate the presence of a vulnerability this is nothing (aka PoC||GTFO).
(edited) In addition the cited CVE-2024-38476 requires a *malicious backend* to be exploitable:
@GossiTheDog@MisuseCase Neat! It'd be cool to show threats drive down product use predictably! Stocks on the other hand seem pretty stable, so I still don't know what this all tells about the market...
@MisuseCase@GossiTheDog I also think this is the true cause of the decline, vulns probably just correlate (evidence: every other product with frequent ItW vulns)