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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 1st, 2025: Cookie Auth Issues; Western Digtial Command Injection; sudo exploited;
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Sometimes you don t even need to log in Applications using simple, predictable cookies to verify a user s identity are still exploited, and relatively recent vulnerabilities are still due to this very basic mistake. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%22user%3Dadmin%22.%20Sometimes%20you%20don%27t%20even%20need%20to%20log%20in./32334 Western Digital My Clo…
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 30th, 2025: Apple Patch; PAN Global Protect Scans; SSL.com signed malware
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Apple Patches Apple released patches for iOS, macOS, and visionOS, fixing a single font parsing vulnerability https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Patches%20Single%20Vulnerability%20CVE-2025-43400/32330 Increase in Scans for Palo Alto Global Protect Vulnerability (CVE-2024-3400). Our honeypots detected an increase in scans for a Palo Alto Global Prot…
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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 29th, 2025: Convert Timestamps; Cisco Compromises; GitHub Notification Phishing
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Converting Timestamps in .bash_history Unix shells offer the ability to add timestamps to commands in the .bash_history file. This is often done in the form of Unix timestamps. This new tool converts these timestamps into a more readable format. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/New%20tool%3A%20convert-ts-bash-history.py/32324 Cisco ASA/FRD Compromises Ex…
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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 26th, 2025: Webshells in .well-known; Critical Cisco Vulns Exploited; XCSSET Update; GoAnywhere MFT Exploit Details
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Webshells Hiding in .well-known Places Our honeypots registered an increase in scans for URLs in the .well-known directory, which appears to be looking for webshells. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Webshells%20Hiding%20in%20.well-known%20Places/32320 Cisco Patches Critical Exploited Vulnerabilities Cisco released updates addressing already-exploited vu…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 25th, 2025: Hikvision Exploits; Cisco Patches; Sonicawall Anit-Rootkit Patch; Windows 10 Support
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Exploit Attempts Against Older Hikvision Camera Vulnerability Out honeypots observed an increase in attacks against some older Hikvision issues. A big part of the problem is weak passwords, and the ability to send credentials as part of the URL. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploit%20Attempts%20Against%20Older%20Hikvision%20Camera%20Vulnerability/323…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 24th, 2025: DoS against the Analyst; GitHub Improvements; Solarwinds and Supermicro BMC vulnerabilities
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Distracting the Analyst for Fun and Profit Our undergraduate intern, Tyler House analyzed what may have been a small DoS attack that was likely more meant to distract than to actually cause a denial of service https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Distracting%20the%20Analyst%20for%20Fun%20and%20Profit/32308 GitHub s plan for a more secur…
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025: Ivanti EPMM Exploit; GitHub Impersonation
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CISA Reports Ivanti EPMM Exploit Sightings Two different organizations submitted backdoors to CISA, which are believed to have been installed using Ivanti vulnerabilities patched in May. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/analysis-reports/ar25-261a Lastpass Observes Impersonation on GitHub Lastpass noted a number of companies being impersonated via f…
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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 22nd, 2025: Odd HTTP Reuqest; GoAnywhere MFT Bug; EDR Freeze
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Help Wanted: What are these odd requests about? An odd request is hitting a number of our honeypots with a somewhat unusual HTTP request header. Please let me know if you no what the request is about. https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Help+Wanted+What+are+these+odd+reuqests+about/32302/ Forta GoAnywhere MFT Vulnerability Forta s GoAnywhere MFT prod…
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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 19th, 2025: Honeypot File Analysis (@sans_edu); SonicWall Breach; DeepSeek Bias; Chrome 0-day
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Exploring Uploads in a Dshield Honeypot Environment This guest diary by one of our SANS.edu undergraduate interns shows how to analyze files uploaded to Cowrie https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploring%20Uploads%20in%20a%20Dshield%20Honeypot%20Environment%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/32296 Sonicwall Breach SonicWall MySonicWall accounts were breached via crede…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 18th, 2025: DLL Hooking; Entra ID Actor Tokens; Watchguard and NVidia Patches
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CTRL-Z DLL Hooking Attackers may use a simple reload trick to overwrite breakpoints left by analysts to reverse malicious binaries. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/CTRL-Z%20DLL%20Hooking/32294 Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant via Actor tokens As part of September s patch Tuesday, Microsoft patched CVE-2025-55241. The discoverer of the vulnerability…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 17th, 2025: Phishing Resistants; More npm Attacks; ChatGPT MCP abuse
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Why You Need Phishing-Resistant Authentication NOW. The recent compromise of a number of high-profile npmjs.com accounts has yet again shown how dangerous a simple phishing email can be. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Why%20You%20Need%20Phishing%20Resistant%20Authentication%20NOW./32290 S1ngularity/nx Attackers Strike Again A second wave of attacks has…
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 16th, 2025: Apple Updates; Rust Phishing; Samsung 0-day
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Apple Updates Apple released major updates for all of its operating systems. In addition to new features, these updates patch 33 different vulnerabilities. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Updates%20Everything%20-%20iOS%20macOS%2026%20Edition/32286 Microsoft End of Life October 14th, support for Windows 10, Exchange 2016, and Exchange 2019 will e…
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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 15th, 2025: More Archives; Salesforce Attacks; White Cobra; BSides Augusta
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Web Searches For Archives Didier observed additional file types being searched for as attackers continue to focus on archive files as they spider web pages https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Web%20Searches%20For%20Archives/32282 FBI Flash Alert: Salesforce Attacks The FBI is alerting users of Salesforce of two different threat actors targeting Salesforce. …
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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 12th, 2025: DShield SIEM Update; Another Sonicwall Warning; Website Keystroke Logging
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DShield SIEM Docker Updates Guy updated the DShield SIEM which graphically summarizes what is happening inside your honeypot. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/DShield%20SIEM%20Docker%20Updates/32276 Again: Sonicwall SSL VPN Compromises The Australian Government s Signals Directorate noted an increase in compromised Sonicwall devices. https://www.cyber.go…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 11th, 2025: BASE64 in DNS; Google Chrome, Ivantii and Sophos Patches; Apple Memory Integrity Feature
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BASE64 Over DNS The base64 character set exceeds what is allowable in DNS. However, some implementations will work even with these invalid characters. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/BASE64%20Over%20DNS/32274 Google Chrome Update Google released an update for Google Chrome, addressing two vulnerabilities. One of the vulnerabilities is rated critical and…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 10th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday;
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday As part of its September patch Tuesday, Microsoft addressed 177 different vulnerabilities, 86 of which affect Microsoft products. None of the vulnerabilities has been exploited before today. Two of the vulnerabilities were already made public. Microsoft rates 13 of the vulnerabilities are critical. https://isc.sans.edu/diary…
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 9th, 2025: Major npm compromise; HTTP Request Signature
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Major npm compromise A number of high-profile npm libraries were compromised after developers fell for a phishing email. This compromise affected libraries with a total of hundreds of millions of downloads a week. https://bsky.app/profile/bad-at-computer.bsky.social/post/3lydioq5swk2y https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/172738 https://git…
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SANS Stormcast Monday, September 8th, 2025: YARA to Debugger Offsets; SVG JavaScript Phishing; FreePBX Patches;
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From YARA Offsets to Virtual Addresses Xavier explains how to convert offsets reported by YARA into offsets suitable for the use with debuggers. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/From%20YARA%20Offsets%20to%20Virtual%20Addresses/32262 Phishing via JavaScript in SVG Files Virustotal uncovered a Colombian phishing campaign that takes advantage of JavaScript …
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SANS Stormcast Friday, September 5th, 2025: Cloudflare Response to 1.1.1.1 Certificate; AI Modem Namespace Reuse; macOS Vulnerability Allowed Keychain Decryption
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Unauthorized Issuance of Certificate for 1.1.1.1 Cloudflare published a blog post with more details regarding the bad 1.1.1.1 certificate that was issued by Fina. https://blog.cloudflare.com/unauthorized-issuance-of-certificates-for-1-1-1-1/ AI Model Namespace Reuse Deleted accounts on Huggingface can be taken over by other entities unrelated to th…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 4th, 2025: Dassault DELMIA Apriso Exploit Attempts; Android Updates; 1.1.1.1 Certificate Issued
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Exploit Attempts for Dassault DELMIA Apriso. CVE-2025-5086 Our honeypots detected attacks against the manufacturing management system DELMIA Apriso. The deserialization vulnerability was patched in June and is one of a few critical vulnerabilities patched in recent months. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploit%20Attempts%20for%20Dassault%20DELMIA%20Ap…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025: Sextortiion Analysis; Covert Channel DNS/ICMP; Azure AD Secret Theft; Official FreePBX Patches
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A Quick Look at Sextortion at Scale Jan analyzed 1900 different sextortion messages using 205 different Bitcoin addresses to look at the success rate, lifetime, and other metrics defining these campaigns. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20quick%20look%20at%20sextortion%20at%20scale%3A%201%2C900%20messages%20and%20205%20Bitcoin%20addresses%20spanning%2…
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025: pdf-parser Patch; Salesloft Compromise; Velociraptor Abuse; NeuVector Default Password
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pdf-parser: All Streams Didier released a new version of pdf-parser.py. This version fixes a problem with dumping all filtered streams. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/pdf-parser%3A%20All%20Streams/32248 Salesloft Drift Putting OAuth Tokens at Risk OAuth tokens used by Salesloft Drift users to provide access to integrations with Salesforce, Google Works…
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SANS Stormcast Friday, August 29th, 2025: Scans for ZIP Files; FreePBX 0-Day; Passwordstate Patch
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Increasing Searches for ZIP Files Attackers are scanning our honeypots more and more for .zip files. They are looking for backups of credential files and the like left behind by careless administrators and developers. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Increasing%20Searches%20for%20ZIP%20Files/32242 FreePBX Vulnerability An upatched vulnerability in FreePB…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 28th, 2025: Launching Shellcode; NX Compromise; Volt Typhoon Report
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Interesting Technique to Launch a Shellcode Xavier came across malware that PowerShell and the CallWindowProcA() API to launch code. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Interesting%20Technique%20to%20Launch%20a%20Shellcode/32238 NX Compromised to Steal Wallets and Credentials The popular open source NX build package was compromised. Code was added that uses…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, August 27th, 2025: Analyzing IDNs; Netscaler 0-Day Vuln; Git Vuln Exploited;
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Getting a Better Handle on International Domain Names and Punycode International Domain names can be used for phishing and other attacks. One way to identify suspect names is to look for mixed script use. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Getting%20a%20Better%20Handle%20on%20International%20Domain%20Names%20and%20Punycode/32234 Citrix Netscaler Vulnerabil…
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