Best XE Network Podcasts (2025)

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025: Sharepoint 2016 Patch; MotW Privacy and WinZip; Interlock Ransomware; Sophos Patches 6:17

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Microsoft Updates SharePoint Vulnerability Guidance CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771 Microsoft released its update for SharePoint 2016, completing the updates across all currently supported versions. https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07/customer-guidance-for-sharepoint-vulnerability-cve-2025-53770/ WinZip MotW Privacy Starting with version 7.10…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025: SharePoint Emergency Patches; How Long Does Patching Take; HPE Wifi Vuln; Zoho WorkDrive Abused 6:00

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Microsoft Released Patches for SharePoint Vulnerability CVE-2025-53770 CVE-2025-53771 Microsoft released a patch for the currently exploited SharePoint vulnerability. It also added a second CVE number identifying the authentication bypass vulnerability. https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07/customer-guidance-for-sharepoint-vulnerability-cve-2025-…

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SANS Stormcast Monday July 21st, 2025: Sharepoint Exploited; Veeam Fake Voicemail Phish; Passkey Phishing Attack 8:05

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SharePoint Servers Exploited via 0-day CVE-2025-53770 Late last week, CodeWhite found a new remote code execution exploit against SharePoint. This vulnerability is now actively exploited. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Critical+Sharepoint+0Day+Vulnerablity+Exploited+CVE202553770+ToolShell/32122/ Veeam Voicemail Phishing Attackers appear to impersonate …

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SANS Stormcast Friday, July 18th, 2025: Extended File Attributes; Critical Cisco ISE Patch; VMWare Patches; Quarterly Oracle Patches 4:55

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Hiding Payloads in Linux Extended File Attributes Xavier today looked at ways to hide payloads on Linux, similar to how alternate data streams are used on Windows. Turns out that extended file attributes do the trick, and he presents some scripts to either hide data or find hidden data. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Hiding%20Payloads%20in%20Linux%20Ex…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, July 17th, 2025: catbox.moe abuse; Sonicwall Attacks; Rendering Issues 5:09

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More Free File Sharing Services Abuse The free file-sharing service catbox.moe is abused by malware. While it officially claims not to allow hosting of executables, it only checks extensions and is easily abused https://isc.sans.edu/diary/More%20Free%20File%20Sharing%20Services%20Abuse/32112 Ongoing SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) Exploitation…

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[Episode #254] – Global Electricity Review 2025 27:19

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This episode cuts through the noise around energy transition progress with hard data from one of the year’s most important reports. Despite claims from both “fossil gradualists” who would like to see the energy transition fail, and “net-zero puritans” who deny that the energy transition is happening at all because emissions are still rising, the tr…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, July 16th, 2025: ADS Keystroke Logger; Fake Homebrew; Broadcom Altiris RCE; Malicious Cursor AI Extensions 5:45

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Keylogger Data Stored in an ADS Xavier came across a keystroke logger that stores data in alternate data streams. The data includes keystroke logs as well as clipboard data https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Keylogger%20Data%20Stored%20in%20an%20ADS/32108 Malvertising Homebrew An attacker has been attempting to trick users into installing a malicious versi…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, July 14th, 2025: Web Honeypot Log Volume; Browser Extension Malware; RDP Forensics 6:10

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DShield Honeypot Log Volume Increase Within the last few months, there has been a dramatic increase in honeypot log volumes and how often these high volumes are seen. This has not just been from Jesse s residential honeypot, which has historically seen higher log volumes, but from all of the honeypots that Jesse runs. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/DSh…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, July 14th, 2025: Suspect Domain Feed; Wing FTP Exploited; FortiWeb Exploited; NVIDIA GPU Rowhammer 6:53

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Experimental Suspicious Domain Feed Our new experimental suspicious domain feed uses various criteria to identify domains that may be used for phishing or other malicious purposes. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Experimental%20Suspicious%20Domain%20Feed/32102 Wing FTP Server RCE Vulnerability Exploited CVE-2025-47812 Huntress saw active exploitation of…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, July 11th, 2025: SSH Tunnel; FortiWeb SQL Injection; Ruckus Unpatched Vuln; Missing Motherboard Patches; 5:48

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SSH Tunneling in Action: direct-tcp requests Attackers are compromising ssh servers to abuse them as relays. The attacker will configure port forwarding direct-tcp connections to forward traffic to a victim. In this particular case, the Yandex mail server was the primary victim of these attacks. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/SSH%20Tunneling%20in%20Act…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, July 10th, 2025: Internal CA with ACME; TapJacking on Android; Adobe Patches; 5:18

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Setting up Your Own Certificate Authority for Development: Why and How. Some tips on setting up your own internal certificate authority using the smallstep CA. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Setting%20up%20Your%20Own%20Certificate%20Authority%20for%20Development%3A%20Why%20and%20How./32092 Animation-Driven Tapjacking on Android Attackers can use a clic…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, July 9th, 2025: Microsoft Patches; Opposum Attack; 7:44

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2025 Today, Microsoft released patches for 130 Microsoft vulnerabilities and 9 additional vulnerabilities not part of Microsoft's portfolio but distributed by Microsoft. 14 of these are rated critical. Only one of the vulnerabilities was disclosed before being patched, and none of the vulnerabilities have so far been e…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, July 8th, 2025: Detecting Filename (Windows); Atomic Stealer now with Backdoor; SEO Scams 5:29

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What s My File Name Malware may use the GetModuleFileName API to detect if it was renamed to a name typical for analysis, like sample.exe or malware.exe https://isc.sans.edu/diary/What%27s%20My%20%28File%29Name%3F/32084 Atomic macOS infostealer adds backdoor for persistent attacks Malware analyst discovered a new version of the Atomic macOS info-st…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, July 7th, 2025: interesting usernames; More sudo issues; CitrixBleed2 PoC; Short Lived Certs 5:48

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Interesting ssh/telnet usernames Some interesting usernames observed in our honeypots https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20few%20interesting%20and%20notable%20ssh%20telnet%20usernames/32080 More sudo trouble The host option in Sudo can be exploited to execute commands on unauthorized hosts. https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32462-s…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday July 3rd, 2025: sudo problems; polymorphic zip files; cisco vulnerablity 5:20

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Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege The sudo chroot option can be leveraged by any local user to elevate privileges to root, even if no sudo rules are defined for that user. https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-32463-sudo-chroot Polymorphic ZIP Files A zip file with a corrupt End of Central Directory Record may extract different …

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[Episode #253] – Bioenergy Illusions 21:23

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Various biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), and wood for power plants are labeled as renewable and carbon-neutral. But are they really? If a farmer converts food-producing land to grow corn for ethanol, does that acre actually reduce carbon emissions? When trees are cut down to fire power plants, can we have confi…

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SANS Stormcast Monday June 30th, 2025: Scattered Spider; AMI BIOS Exploited; Secure Boot Certs Expiring; Microsoft Resliliency Initiative 7:29

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Scattered Spider Update The threat actor known as Scattered Spider is in the news again, this time focusing on airlines. But the techniques used by Scattered Spider, social engineering, are still some of the most dangerous techniques used by various threat actors. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/unc3944-proactive-hardening-…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, June 27th, 2025: Open-VSX Flaw; Airoha Bluetooth Vulnerablity; Critical Cisco Identity Service Engine Vuln; 6:47

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Open-VSX Flaw Puts Developers at Risk A flaw in the open-vsx extension marketplace could have let to the compromise of any extension offered by the marketplace. https://blog.koi.security/marketplace-takeover-how-we-couldve-taken-over-every-developer-using-a-vscode-fork-f0f8cf104d44 Bluetooth Vulnerability Could Allow Eavesdropping A vulnerability i…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, June 26th, 2025: Another Netscaler Vuln; CentOS Web Panel Vuln; IP Based Certs 5:53

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NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway Security Bulletin for CVE-2025-6543 Citrix patched a memory overflow vulnerability leading to unintended control flow and denial of service. https://support.citrix.com/support-home/kbsearch/article?articleNumber=CTX694788 Remote code execution in CentOS Web Panel - CVE-2025-48703 An arbitrary file upload vulnerab…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, June 24th, 2025: Telnet/SSH Scan Evolution; Fake Sonicwall Software; File-Fix vs Click-Fix 4:03

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Quick Password Brute Forcing Evolution Statistics After collecting usernames and passwords from our ssh and telnet honeypots for about a decade, I took a look back at how scans changed. Attackers are attempting more passwords in each scans than they used to, but the average length of passwords did not change. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Quick%20Pass…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, June 24th, 2025: Ichano ATHome IP Camera Scans; Netscaler Vulnerability; WinRar Vulnerability 5:04

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Scans for Ichano AtHome IP Cameras A couple days ago, a few sources started scanning for the username super_yg and the password 123. This is associated with Ichano IP Camera software. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Scans%20for%20Ichano%20AtHome%20IP%20Cameras/32062 Critical Netscaler Security Update CVE-2025-5777 CVE 2025-5777 is a critical severity vu…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, June 23rd, 2025: ADS and Python; More Secure Cloud PCs; Zend.to Path Traversal; Parser Differentials 5:36

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ADS & Python Tools Didier explains how to use his tools cut-bytes.py and filescanner to extract information from alternate data streams. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/ADS%20%26%20Python%20Tools/32058 Enhanced security defaults for Windows 365 Cloud PCs Microsoft announced more secure default configurations for its Windows 365 Cloud PC offerings. https…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, June 20th, 2025: New Employee Phishing; Malicious Tech Support Links; Social Engineering App Sepecific Passwords 5:46

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How Long Until the Phishing Starts? About Two Weeks After setting up a Google Workspace and adding a new user, it took only two weeks for the new employee to receive somewhat targeted phishing emails. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/How%20Long%20Until%20the%20Phishing%20Starts%3F%20About%20Two%20Weeks/32052 Scammers hijack websites of Bank of America, N…

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[Episode #252] – Steelmaking in the Mid-Transition 23:25

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On April 12, the British government took control of British Steel under an emergency authorization in order to prevent its last blast furnace from shutting down. Blast furnaces produce primary steel from iron ore and account for about 93% of global primary iron production, but they also generate large amounts of CO2. Alternative, low-carbon technol…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, June 16th, 2025: Extracting Data from JPEG; Windows Recall Export; Anubis Wiper; Mitel Vuln and PoC 5:46

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Extracting Data From JPEGs Didier shows how to efficiently extract data from JPEGs using his tool jpegdump.py https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20JPEG%20With%20A%20Payload/32048 Windows Recall Export in Europe In its latest insider build for Windows 11, Microsoft is testing an export feature for data stored by Recall. The feature is limited to European …

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SANS Stormcast Monday, June 16th, 2025: Katz Stealer in JPG; JavaScript Attacks; Reviving expired Discord Invites for Evil 6:44

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Katz Stealer in JPG Xavier found some multistage malware that uses an Excel Spreadsheet and an HTA file to load an image that includes embeded a copy of Katz stealer. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/More+Steganography/32044 https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/malicious-javascript-using-jsfiretruck-as-obfuscation/ JavaScript obfuscated with JSF*CK is bei…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, June 13th, 2025: Honeypot Scripts; EchoLeak MSFT Copilot Vuln; Thunderbolt mailbox URL Vuln; 5:43

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Automated Tools to Assist with DShield Honeypot Investigations https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Automated%20Tools%20to%20Assist%20with%20DShield%20Honeypot%20Investigations%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/32038 EchoLeak: Zero-Click Microsoft 365 Copilot Data Leak Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Copilot that could have been abused to exfiltrate data from Copilot…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, June 12th, 2025: Quasar RAT; Windows 11 24H2 Delay; SMB Client Vuln PoC; Connectwise Signing Keys; KDE Telnet code exec 6:27

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Quasar RAT Delivered Through Bat Files Xavier is walking you through a quick reverse analysis of a script that will injection code extracted from a PNG image to implement a Quasar RAT. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Quasar%20RAT%20Delivered%20Through%20Bat%20Files/32036 Delayed Windows 11 24H2 Rollout Microsoft slightly throttled the rollout of windows…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, June 11th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; Acrobat Patches 6:58

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft today released patches for 67 vulnerabilities. 10 of these vulnerabilities are rated critical. One vulnerability has already been exploited and another vulnerability has been publicly disclosed before today. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20Patch%20Tuesday%20June%202025/32032 Adobe Vulnerabilities Adobe relea…

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SANS Stormcast June, Tuesday, June 10th, 2025: Octosql; Mirai vs. Wazuh DNS4EU; Wordpress Fair Package Manager 6:09

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OctoSQL & Vulnerability Data OctoSQL is a neat tool to query files in different formats using SQL. This can, for example, be used to query the JSON vulnerability files from CISA or NVD and create interesting joins between different files. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/OctoSQL+Vulnerability+Data/32026 Mirai vs. Wazuh The Mirai botnet has now been obser…

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SANS Stormcast June, June 9th, 2025: Extracting PNG Data; GlueStack Packages Backdoor; MacOS targeted by Clickfix; INETPUB restore script 5:43

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Extracting With pngdump.py Didier extended his pngdump.py script to make it easier to extract additional data appended to the end of the image file. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Extracting%20With%20pngdump.py/32022 16 React Native Packages for GlueStack Backdoored Overnight 16 npm packages with over a million weekly downloads between them were compro…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, June 6th, 2025: Fake Zoom Clients; Python tarfile vulnerability; HPE Insight Remote Support Patch 5:01

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Be Careful With Fake Zoom Client Downloads Miscreants are tricking victims into downloading fake Zoom clients (and likely other meeting software) by first sending them fake meeting invites that direct victims to a page that offers malware for download as an update to the Zoom client. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Be%20Careful%20With%20Fake%20Zoom%20Cl…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, June 5th, 2025: Phishing Comment Trick; AWS default logging mode change; Cisco Backdoor Fixed; Infoblox Vulnerability Details Released 5:26

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Phishing e-mail that hides malicious links from Outlook users Jan found a phishing email that hides the malicious link from Outlook users. The email uses specific HTML comment clauses Outlook interprets to render or not render specific parts of the email s HTML code. Jan suggests that the phishing email is intented to not expose users of https://is…

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[Episode #251] – South Australia on Point 16:10

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This episode is the final part in our miniseries about Australia’s energy transition. In late 2024, Chris traveled to Australia and recorded interviews with a wide range of experts who are intimately involved in the energy transition there. We featured some of them in the earlier episodes of this miniseries, namely, Episodes #234, #235, #246, #247,…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, June 4th, 2025: vBulletin Exploited; Chrome 0-Day Patch; Roundcube RCE Patch; Multiple HP StoreOnce Vulns Patched 7:25

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vBulletin Exploits CVE-2025-48827, CVE-2025-48828 We do see exploit attempts for the vBulletin flaw disclosed about a week ago. The flaw is only exploitable if vBulltin is run on PHP 8.1, and was patched over a year ago. However, vBulltin never disclosed the type of vulnerability that was patched. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/vBulletin%20Exploits%20%…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025: Windows SSH C2; Google Removes CAs from trusted list; MSFT issues Emergency Patch to fix Crash issue; Qualcom Adreno GPU 0-day 6:06

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Simple SSH Backdoor Xavier came across a simple SSH backdoor taking advantage of the ssh client preinstalled on recent Windows systems. The backdoor is implemented via an SSH configuration file that instructs the SSH client to connect to a remote system and forward a shell on a random port. This will make the shell accessible to anybody able to con…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, June 2nd, 2025: PNG with RAT; Cisco IOS XE WLC Exploit; vBulletin Exploit 5:42

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A PNG Image With an Embedded Gift Xavier shows how Python code attached to a PNG image can be used to implement a command and control channel or a complete remote admin kit. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A+PNG+Image+With+an+Embedded+Gift/31998 Cisco IOS XE WLC Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability (CVE-2025-20188) Analysis Horizon3 analyzed a recently p…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, May 30th 2025: Alternate Data Streams; Connectwise Breach; Google Calendar C2; 13:47

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Alternate Data Streams: Adversary Defense Evasion and Detection Good Primer of alternate data streams and how they are abused, as well as how to detect and defend against ADS abuse. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Alternate%20Data%20Streams%20%3F%20Adversary%20Defense%20Evasion%20and%20Detection%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/31990 Connectwise Breach Affects Scr…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday May 29th 2025: LLM Assisted Analysis; MSP Ransomware; Everetz Vulnerability 6:10

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Exploring a Use Case of Artificial Intelligence Assistance with Understanding an Attack Jennifer Wilson took a weird string found in a recent honeypot sample and worked with ChatGPT to figure out what it is all about. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Exploring%20a%20Use%20Case%20of%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Assistance%20with%20U…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday May 28th 2025: Securing authorized_keys; ADAuditPlus SQL Injection; Dero Miner vs Docker API 6:37

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SSH authorized_keys File One of the most common techniques used by many bots is to add rogue keys to the authorized_keys file, implementing an SSH backdoor. Managing these files and detecting unauthorized changes is not hard and should be done if you operate Unix systems. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Securing%20Your%20SSH%20authorized_keys%20File/319…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, May 27th 2025: SVG Steganography; Fortinet PoC; GitLab Duo Prompt Injection 7:13

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SVG Steganography Steganography is not only limited to pixel-based images but can be used to embed messages into vector-based formats like SVG. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/SVG%20Steganography/31978 Fortinet Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-32756 Horizon3.ai shows how it was able to find the vulnerability in Fortinet s products, and how to possibly exp…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, May 23rd 2025: Backup Connectivity; Windows 2025 dMSA Abuse; Samlify Vulnerability 7:54

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Resilient Secure Backup Connectivity for SMB/Home Users Establishing resilient access to a home network via a second ISP may lead to unintended backdoors. Secure the access and make sure you have the visibility needed to detect abuse. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Resilient%20Secure%20Backup%20Connectivity%20for%20SMB%20Home%20Users/31972 BadSuccessor…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, May 22nd 2025: Crypto Confidence Scams; Extension Mayhem for VS Code and Chrome 6:21

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New Variant of Crypto Confidence Scam Scammers are offering login credentials for what appears to be high value crypto coin accounts. However, the goal is to trick users into paying for expensive VIP memberships to withdraw the money. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/New%20Variant%20of%20Crypto%20Confidence%20Scam/31968 Malicious Chrome Extensions Malici…

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[Episode #250] – Russia Revisited 21:09

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Three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting Western sanctions, the country remains an oil and gas powerhouse. Despite falling from the world’s second-largest to third-largest global oil producer and seeing its export rankings decline, Russia continues to delay the global energy transition as a major fossil fuel supplier and geo…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, May 21st 2025: Researchers Scanning the Internet; Forgotten DNS Records; openpgp.js Vulneraiblity 7:51

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Researchers Scanning the Internet A newish RFC, RFC 9511, suggests researchers identify themselves by adding strings to the traffic they send, or by operating web servers on machines from which the scan originates. We do offer lists of researchers and just added three new groups today https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Researchers%20Scanning%20the%20Intern…