Let me be direct — we have a paradigm problem on the table this morning.
GhostLock. A ransomware variant that locks half a million files in under three minutes without writing a single byte to disk. No encryption. No file modification. No forensic artifacts. It abuses CreateFileW with an exclusive share mode of zero, and every EDR signature model I'm aware of is blind to it. This isn't an incremental evolution — this is a category break. If the claims hold up, our entire detection philosophy for ransomware just became obsolete overnight. That's where we start.
But the day doesn't stop there. We've got three fresh cPanel RCE vulnerabilities with a blast radius covering every shared hosting provider on the planet — patch dropped May 8, exploitation window is wide open. There's an active npm supply chain worm stealing SSH keys, AWS credentials, and GitHub tokens through self-propagating publish tokens. And a $293 million LayerZero exploit with Lazarus attribution that triggered a $2 billion TVL exodus — nation-state actors hitting DeFi infrastructure at the architecture level.
Quick scope note: Palo Alto patch deadline is May 13 — two days out, 5,821 firewalls still exposed per Shadowserver. Canvas ransom deadline is tomorrow. Both on the clock.
We're skipping Dirty Frag, JDownloader, and the AI self-replication story — all thoroughly covered in prior sessions with no new delta.
Alex, James — GhostLock is yours first. Let's tear this apart.