The laptop’s owner, Derek from creative, was supposedly on paternity leave. His machine, however, was alive with chatter – a staccato burst of empty UDP packets hammering against the finance department’s VPN gateway. Not a targeted attack. Generic. Noisy. Amateur.
The alert blinked on Kaspersky’s central console: – source: workstation 14-B, time: 03:14 AM. scan.generic.portscan.udp kaspersky
Kaspersky had caught it not as an exploit, but as a behavior – the generic signature of something feeling its way through the dark. The laptop’s owner, Derek from creative, was supposedly