The Halloween Spider Attack

Posted by azaz0080FF@reddit | talesfromtechsupport | View on Reddit | 13 comments

So it's Halloween and as usual everyone is in the office (building B) for our Halloween party. On top of that it's time for the regular Tabletop/IRP review. So everyone in the department from desktop support to security, Property management, the CIO and CISO are all crammed into the hot conference room. Luckily I'm not as I asked to work from Building A that day

Anyway, we started going through our IRP scenarios. With some members strategically barred from answering. Our new security analyst pipes up and says we have spiders attacking our network. Confusion follows, is this a scenario? Then slight panic, this isn't a scenario. CISO ask where are you seeing this. Analyst says, we just got a critical ticket. Someone opens the ticket and reads web spider attacking printer in building A This makes no sense so network, security and webdev start checking their various metrics and logs. I'm in building A so I go to check the printers.I find spiders all right, tiny plastic spiders all over the flatbed in the exec suite.

TLDR: someone messed with the printers, a game of telephone leads to a VIP (automatically critical) ticket saying our printers are under attack. Turns out someone just covered the printers in plastic spiders.