Wolves Keep Shuffling the Same Old Tricks and the Flock Still Falls For It
Another week, another 47 tickets in my queue from Lambs who clicked on things they shouldn't have clicked on. I've been awake since Tuesday. The coffee stopped working around hour 22. Now I'm running on pure spite and the faint hope that one day, just one day, the Flock will learn what "suspicious link" means.
So let's talk about what the Wolves have been up to.
The ThreatsDay roundup dropped and honestly, it reads like a greatest hits album nobody asked for. WhatsApp hijacks, AI-powered reconnaissance, something called React2Shell that I'm sure will ruin my weekend. Oh, and apparently there's a new way to leak data through MCP. Cool. Great. Love that for us.
Here's the thing that kills me. These aren't revolutionary attacks. The Wolves aren't inventing new hunting strategies. They're just tweaking the old ones. A little shift here, a new social hook there, maybe some fancy AI to do the boring parts faster. It's the same Fake Grain schemes dressed up in new packaging.
And the Lambs keep biting.
The Shepherds, of course, are nowhere to be found. Probably in a meeting about Q3 metrics while the Electric Fence has three holes in it and we haven't done a proper Shearing cycle since August.
The threat landscape is "fluid" according to the report. You know what else is fluid? My will to live after explaining for the ninth time this month why you can't just click links in messages from numbers you don't recognize.
Small changes are stacking up. Each one hints at where the next big breach could come from. Meanwhile I'm over here with a budget that couldn't buy a decent Sheep Tunnel license and a ticket queue that grows every time I blink.
Remediation
Look, I know nobody reads this part. But here goes anyway.
- Stop clicking things. Just stop. If it looks like Fake Grain, it probably is.
- Patch your stuff. Do the Shearing. Apply the Ointment. I don't care if it requires a reboot during business hours.
- Check your Electric Fence configs. There are holes. There are always holes.
- Maybe, just maybe, consider that the Sky Pasture isn't as safe as the vendor promised.
- Train your Lambs. Again. Yes, I know you did it last quarter. Do it again.
I'm going to go stare at logs until my eyes bleed or until the next incident, whichever comes first.
Probably the incident.
Original Report: https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/threatsday-bulletin-whatsapp-hijacks.html