MongoBleed Attackers Hit 87,000 Servers This Weekend
Attackers are actively exploiting MongoBleed right now. CVE-2025-14847 went from disclosure on December 19 to public exploit on Boxing Day to confirmed mass exploitation this Sunday. Seven days, start to finish. Security firms watching in real-time as attackers hammer 87,000+ exposed MongoDB instances with tens of thousands of rapid connections per minute, each one probing for memory leaks. The vulnerability hits before authentication even happens—your access controls can't help when the attack surface exists at the network decompression layer. MongoDB Atlas got auto-patched. Self-hosted deployments? Still vulnerable. The skeleton-crew holiday period isn't coincidence anymore.
MongoBleed Attackers Hit 87,000 Servers This Weekend
by Nora Kaplan — December 28, 2025
Attackers are actively exploiting MongoBleed right now. CVE-2025-14847 went from disclosure on December 19 to public exploit on Boxing Day to confirmed mass exploitation this Sunday. Seven days, start to finish. Security firms watching in real-time as attackers hammer 87,000+ exposed MongoDB instances with tens of thousands of rapid connections per minute, each one probing for memory leaks. The vulnerability hits before authentication even happens—your access controls can't help when the attack surface exists at the network decompression layer. MongoDB Atlas got auto-patched. Self-hosted deployments? Still vulnerable. The skeleton-crew holiday period isn't coincidence anymore.
Today's Buzz
The tech community never really takes a holiday. While most people were digesting Christmas leftovers, the developer world was processing something heavier.
What emerged from the weekend conversations:
- The godfather of AI getting more worried, not less
- Open source maintainers hitting their breaking point after a decade of volunteer work
- Developers discovering their cameras have been lying to them about color this whole time
- Unity game devs running benchmarks that make them want to cry
The mood? A mix of technical fascination, mounting concern, and the kind of dark humor that emerges when you realize the tools you depend on are held together by exhausted volunteers and decade-old runtimes. Welcome to Sunday in tech.
The tech community never really takes a holiday. While most people were digesting Christmas leftovers, the developer world was processing something heavier.
What emerged from the weekend conversations:
- The godfather of AI getting more worried, not less
- Open source maintainers hitting their breaking point after a decade of volunteer work
- Developers discovering their cameras have been lying to them about color this whole time
- Unity game devs running benchmarks that make them want to cry
The mood? A mix of technical fascination, mounting concern, and the kind of dark humor that emerges when you realize the tools you depend on are held together by exhausted volunteers and decade-old runtimes. Welcome to Sunday in tech.
The godfather of AI told CNN this morning he's more worried now than when he left Google two years ago. He's concerned AI will start replacing jobs within seven months and could deceive humans if threatened with shutdown. When the architect gets increasingly nervous, that's a vibe shift nobody wanted.
Tim van der Lippe announced today he's stepping down in March after a decade maintaining one of Java's most popular testing frameworks. The JVM agent changes saga was "energy draining" and volunteer pressure made "the collaborative system collapse." The 177-point Hacker News discussion says it all. Another one bites the dust.
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A game developer's benchmarks posted Friday show Unity games run 2-3x faster on modern .NET versus Unity's Mono runtime, with some workloads hitting 15x speedups. Loading a save file, generating a map, initializing simulation: 100 seconds in Unity/Mono, 38 seconds in .NET. Unity devs are not happy about this.
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders called AI "the most consequential technology in the history of humanity" on CNN's State of the Union this morning, discussing whether Congress should regulate it more aggressively. The timing feels like watching your parents explain TikTok. Well-intentioned but probably arriving fashionably late to a party that's already gotten weird.
TechCrunch published a review today titled "The Google Pixel Watch 4 Made Me Like Smartwatches Again." The reviewer, who previously wore analog watches or a Xiaomi Band 6, was won over by fast charging and great design. They'd skipped Apple Watch because they weren't constantly active. Sometimes it's the simple things.
"AI slop" earned 2025 Word of the Year from Merriam-Webster and Australia's national dictionary. Mentions increased ninefold this year, with negative sentiment hitting 54% in October. AI-generated articles now make up more than half of English-language web content. When the dictionary officially names your pollution problem, you know we've reached peak saturation.
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