Hey everyone. I'm Drex, and this is the two minute drill where I cover some of the hottest security stories in healthcare, all part of the 2 29 projects, cyber and risk community here at this week. Health. It's great to see you today, hear some stuff you might want to know about. Today's episode is a single topic story, probably because it's one that deserves your full attention.

Over the past week, a serious new vulnerability called React to Shell dropped and the internet lit up like a Christmas tree. And in plain English, react to Shell is a flaw and a widely used web server component that lets attackers send a specifically crafted set of commands that trick the server into running them.

Basically giving the bad guys a remote foothold on that server without needing a password. It's kind of like a bug that turns an innocent looking web request into, Hey, thanks for saying Beetlejuice three times out loud. Now I can run code on your machine. And the moment all this went public, attackers didn't wait.

They didn't research it, they didn't think it over, they were on it. Like immediately, security teams first spotted hacking attempts. Within minutes of the initial disclosure of the vulnerability. At least 30 organizations were hit pretty quickly, and it turns out there are tens of thousands of vulnerable systems exposed across the internet.

Many of them in the us, all of those were suddenly on the menu. And if you were in your internal Slack channels discussing when can we schedule a patch window, the bad guys were already scanning and already attacking and already breaking in, and the ripple effect didn't stop there. CloudFlare, one of the biggest internet infrastructure companies in the world moved fast to deploy emergency mitigations because they had to.

When a vulnerability this dangerous appears, speed matters. But in their rush to protect customers, they unintentionally pushed a change that caused a major outage and lots of websites were suddenly throwing the 500 error, not because CloudFlare was attacked, but because the team was racing the attackers and trying to keep the internet safe in real time.

And now we know intelligence analysts are saying that China Nexus hacking groups were among the earliest and most aggressive exploiters. As soon as the React to Shell vulnerability became public, they were scanning entire IP ranges, compromising unpatched systems, and planting back doors for later use.

The bad guys in this case were organized and fast and highly capable of taking advantage of a vulnerability. While most defenders were still. Reading the advisory, it's a harsh reminder of the world we live in. When a critical vulnerability drops, you're not just starting a race, you're already joining a race that's in progress.

You need a rapid response patching playbook that's tested and rehearsed and ready all the time, balanced with the reality that speed saves you from attackers. But speed without process can take you down too. That's it for today's two minute drill. Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid and I will see you around campus.