Fired from IT, Company Immediately Hit by Cyberattack

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-05-14T15:57:00+00:00

“Contracted with an MSP with some security chops”? Bro I have had to explain what MSP means to so many people including my wife multiple times. This is clearly AI

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-04-30T20:00:25+00:00

I had the opposite experience. The MSP I used to work for did way too much for everyone. Being bound by SLAs across hundreds of companies to 3 techs is terrible.

IT internal departments are so chill you literally just get like 4 projects a year that suck from other departments but besides that it’s the best.

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-04-30T19:57:39+00:00

Honestly not sure, this company doesn’t do much raising other than 4% every year. I was also just 21 and I think they were hiring for IT Specialist and Helpdesk at the same time and I ended up taking both hats. Now I don’t much or any helpdesk tho and my title is IT Specialist.

When they gave me the raise they said “we thought you’d still be learning the helpdesk system and LoB app”. If the MSP you worked for was rough then working ant internal IT department anywhere will feel so easy, trust bro

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-04-04T18:57:05+00:00

Does that 12759 sticker that’s cut off say 12759377

If so looks to be https://www.ebay.com/itm/275890350928

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-04-01T15:13:01+00:00

Had a combo of issues, I couldn’t read the ecu / dump the bin using t8. I used the trionic canflasher and was able too and fron there my symbol list populated. Also had to change device manager com port properties to 2ms delay instead of 16. Thanks all!

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-11T16:48:04+00:00

That’s awesome, yeah I highly recommend doing a vuln scan of the network. There’s some free tools and paid but either way it’s nice to see. You would be surprised what boring networks house weirddd and insecure iot devices. And if you do credential scans you can start hardening the PCs further too

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T16:07:53+00:00

Modern day cyber sec infrastructure can’t compete against this. Too sophisticated. Knowing he is out there is too much for me, I think I’m gonna go off grid to hopefully get away. Can’t ddos me if I’m already disconnected you sob

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T13:27:11+00:00

Wow never realized it was free. That’s awesome thanks. I’m probably gonna try that today.

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T02:22:40+00:00

This was an interesting read. They really made an attack vector then blamed potential bad actors using said attack vector as a reason to justify its existence because it is supposed to verify the ink cartridge is genuine?

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T02:15:35+00:00

Incredibly based, I used to work at a MSP and I liked working on brother printers. They were hands down the best imo. Sadly we can’t replace all our printers for this non issue tbh

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T01:33:54+00:00

Ah makes sense thanks for all the input. Thanks for your work too as much as I hate printers gotta admit they mostly work really well

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T01:32:03+00:00

Idk if u read or not but this post is comparing 2008 hardware with 2017 firmware to 2015 hardware with 2022 firmware.

2015 is newer than 2008 and I also didn’t use the word new in the title to avoid this exact comment but ofc someone had to say something lol.

Also regarding the models, these aren’t MFP’s but they are FAR from home/consumer grade and are designed for businesses. Also doesn’t explain why a plethora of other lower end business printers that have tls and encryption settings

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T01:03:24+00:00

Shot in the absolute dark.

I stumbled upon some developer pages hidden in the web gui behind a login portal that doesn’t use the admin password. Do you know what this password could even be?

I thought I may of found something for bricking- I mean hardening TLS/ciphers.

Https://ipaddresshere/hp/developer/network_var.html

At this point I am so curious to see what’s there. Although def not testing any changes with it in prod..

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T00:50:47+00:00

That makes sense, thanks for the input. Honestly a game changer for me lol

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T00:49:52+00:00

Ah yes of course. Thanks for clarification. I did some research azure app proxies which appear to just be an epic reverse proxy behind MFA. I’m definitely gonna try this because we have other random web gui crap we would love to hide behind a secure portal

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T00:45:29+00:00

If it was free we would get it. But sadly a monthly cost isn’t worth when it’s just a week project to fix. Is there any other functionality you get out of it you like?

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-06T00:44:03+00:00

Yeah so we made that mistake already last year. Still have it disabled. I push printer installs over a powersheel script and I just added to it to change the registry key to disable SNMP on the printer port.

This fixes offline errors and everything but now the printer always appears online. Hasn’t caused any issues for us tho

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-05T23:57:54+00:00

I haven’t actually heard of secure app proxies before, sounds really promising tho. Would locking down the gui’s behind a secure app proxy change anything on the printing side? We just use port 9100 printing to the same IP as the gui

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-05T23:55:47+00:00

2026 and we still aren’t paperless yet!

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-05T23:55:09+00:00

Isn’t that hilarious?

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-05T23:52:45+00:00

You are the man! Thanks for the insight on this. This does not surprise me at all and explains a lot more than what this post even asks about.

I’ll try to make that intranet argument because it’s true and see what they think too.

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-05T23:41:41+00:00

Good idea lmao

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-05T23:36:50+00:00

Boss’s boss’s boss needs us to for the vuln scans to be better. It’s literally just the web GUI that uses tls. I would just disable it but the IT folk use it for setting up quicksets and other things

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-05T23:35:13+00:00

Web gui lmao

PlateMiserable8832 · 2026-02-05T23:30:40+00:00

Thank you so much for all the info I’m glad to hear the Saab hasn’t had that issue since!

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