Security firm Volexity just detailed a long-running intrusion by the China-linked group VerdantBamboo (UNC5221). The goal wasn’t a single server—it was corporate boundaries and infrastructure devices. After gaining access via Brickstorm, the attackers established proxy capabilities and used stolen credentials to reach Microsoft 365. Even worse: their traffic was designed to look like it originated from inside the company, helping it slip past Conditional Access rules that normally block external logins. How did investigators catch it? While hunting abnormal network activity, they found a Linux VM running Egnyte Storage Sync. The device wasn’t contacting Egnyte domains—instead, it pointed to attacker-controlled domains routed through Cloudflare. Snapshot analysis confirmed Brickstorm had been implanted. The team believes the credentials came from a compromised outsourced management provider. Using service-account access, attackers leveraged permission gaps to place the backdoor in...
7:00 a.m. and the wind just… wipes sea-salt across my face like it owns the place. I park slightly off, then follow a quiet breakwater path nobody posts about. The ground is wet sand—crumbly, stubborn—sliding into my shoe seams. At first the sea doesn’t “perform.” The water far away only glints with restraint, while the shoreline is darker, textured, and alive with shifting lines. Sound arrives first: salt-laced wind that feels like fabric rubbing, scattered birds, distant low engine hum. Then the smell gets real—salty metal, and a faint old note of brine and decaying plants that snaps you awake. Someone told me not to chase the biggest horizon. Go early. Look from a higher angle so light flips up from the water like thin breathing sheets of metal. As the sun climbs, glare shrinks your vision to the ground’s textures. Where the tide retreats, the touch is honest: wind on skin, tiny salt grains like gentle knocks. I ate hot milkfish porridge—ginger first, sweet fish next, then the ...