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SANS Stormcast Friday, November 7th, 2025: PowerShell Log Correlation; RondoBox Disected; Google Chrome and Cisco Patches
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5:31Binary Breadcrumbs: Correlating Malware Samples with Honeypot Logs Using PowerShell [Guest Diary] Windows, with PowerShell, has a great scripting platform to match common Linux/Unix command line utilities. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Binary%20Breadcrumbs%3A%20Correlating%20Malware%20Samples%20with%20Honeypot%20Logs%20Using%20PowerShell%20%5BGuest%20…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 6th, 2025: Domain API Update; Teams Spoofing; VShell Report
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5:43Updates to Domainname API Some updates to our domainname API will make it more flexible and make it easier and faster to get the complete dataset. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Updates%20to%20Domainname%20API/32452 Microsoft Teams Impersonation and Spoofing Vulnerabilities Checkpoint released details about recently patched spoofing and impersonation v…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 5th, 2025: Apple Patches; Exploits against Trucking and Logistic; Google Android Patches
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6:29Apple Patches Everything, Again Apple released a minor OS upgrade across its lineup, fixing a number of security vulnerabilities. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Patches%20Everything%2C%20Again/32448 Remote Access Tools Used to Compromise Trucking and Logistics Attackers infect trucking and logistics companies with regular remote management tool…
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 4th, 2025: XWiki SolrSearch Exploits and Rapper Feud; AMD Zen 5 RDSEED Bug; More Malicious Open VSX Extensions
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6:56XWiki SolrSearch Exploit Attempts CVE-2025-24893 We have detected a number of exploit attempts against XWiki taking advantage of a vulnerability that was added to the KEV list on Friday. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/XWiki%20SolrSearch%20Exploit%20Attempts%20%28CVE-2025-24893%29%20with%20link%20to%20Chicago%20Gangs%20Rappers/32444 AMD Zen 5 Random Num…
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SANS Stormcast Monday, November 3rd, 2025: Port 8530/8531 Scans; BADCANDY Webshells; Open VSX Security Improvements
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6:26Scans for WSUS: Port 8530/8531 TCP, CVE-2025-59287 We did observe an increase in scans for TCP ports 8530 and 8531. These ports are associated with WSUS and the scans are likely looking for servers vulnerable to CVE-2025-59287 https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Scans%20for%20Port%208530%208531%20%28TCP%29.%20Likely%20related%20to%20WSUS%20Vulnerability%20C…
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SANS Stormcast Friday, October 31st, 2025: Bug Bounty Headers; Exchange hardening; MOVEIt vulnerability
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6:19X-Request-Purpose: Identifying "research" and bug bounty related scans? Our honeypots captured a few requests with bug bounty specific headers. These headers are meant to make it easier to identify requests related to bug bounty, and they are supposed to identify the researcher conducting the scans https://isc.sans.edu/diary/X-Request-Purpose%3A%20…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 30th, 2025: Memory Only Filesystems Forensics; Azure Outage; docker-compose patch
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6:07How to Collect Memory-Only Filesystems on Linux Systems Getting forensically sound copies of memory-only file systems on Linux can be tricky, as tools like dd do not work. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/How%20to%20collect%20memory-only%20filesystems%20on%20Linux%20systems/32432 Microsoft Azure Front Door Outage Today, Microsoft s Azure Front Door servi…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 29th, 2025: Invisible Subject Character Phishing; Tomcat PUT Vuln; BIND9 Spoofing Vuln PoC
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8:04Phishing with Invisible Characters in the Subject Line Phishing emails use invisible UTF-8 encoded characters to break up keywords used to detect phishing (or spam). This is aided by mail clients not rendering some characters that should be rendered. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20phishing%20with%20invisible%20characters%20in%20the%20subject%20line…
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 28th, 2025: Bytes over DNS; Unifi Access Vuln; OpenAI Atlas Prompt Injection
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6:17Bytes over DNS Didiear investigated which bytes may be transmitted as part of a hostname in DNS packets, depending on the client resolver and recursive resolver constraints https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Bytes%20over%20DNS/32420 Unifi Access Vulnerability Unifi fixed a critical vulnerability in it s Access product https://community.ui.com/releases/Secu…
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SANS Stormcast Monday, October 27th, 2025: Bilingual Phishing; Kaitai Struct WebIDE
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6:20Bilingual Phishing for Cloud Credentials Guy observed identical phishing messages in French and English attempting to phish cloud credentials https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Phishing%20Cloud%20Account%20for%20Information/32416 Kaitai Struct WebIDE The binary file analysis tool Kaitai Struct is now available in a web only version https://isc.sans.edu/dia…
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SANS Stormcast Friday, October 24th, 2025: Android Infostealer; SessionReaper Exploited; BIND/unbound DNS Spoofing fix; WSUS Exploit
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6:25Infostealer Targeting Android Devices This infostealer, written in Python, specifically targets Android phones. It takes advantage of Termux to gain access to data and exfiltrates it via Telegram. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Infostealer%20Targeting%20Android%20Devices/32414 Attackers exploit recently patched Adobe Commerce Vulnerability CVE-2025-542…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 23rd, 2025: Blue Angle Software Exploit; Oracle CPU; Rust tar library vulnerability.
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7:28webctrl.cgi/Blue Angel Software Suite Exploit Attempts. Maybe CVE-2025-34033 Variant? Our honeypots detected attacks that appear to exploit CVE-2025-34033 or a similar vulnerability in the Blue Angle Software Suite. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/webctrlcgiBlue+Angel+Software+Suite+Exploit+Attempts+Maybe+CVE202534033+Variant/32410 Oracle Critical Patch…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025: NTP Pool; Xubuntu Compromise; Squid Vulnerability; Lanscope Vuln;
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6:37What time is it? Accuracy of pool.ntp.org. How accurate and reliable is pool.ntp.org? Turns out it is very good! https://isc.sans.edu/diary/What%20time%20is%20it%3F%20Accuracy%20of%20pool.ntp.org./32390 Xubuntu Compromise The Xubuntu website was compromised last weekend and served malware https://floss.social/@bluesabre/115401767635718361 Squid Pro…
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 21st, 2025: Syscall() Obfuscation; AWS down; Beijing Time Attack
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9:17Using Syscall() for Obfuscation/Fileless Activity Fileless malware written in Python can uses syscall() to create file descriptors in memory, evading signatures. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Using%20Syscall%28%29%20for%20Obfuscation%20Fileless%20Activity/32384 AWS Outages AWS has had issues most of the day on Monday, affecting numerous services. http…
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SANS Stormcast Monday, October 20th, 2025: Malicious Tiktok; More Google Ad Problems; Satellite Insecurity
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6:14TikTok Videos Promoting Malware InstallationTikTok Videos Promoting Malware Installation Tiktok videos advertising ways to obtain software like Photoshop for free will instead trick users into downloading https://isc.sans.edu/diary/TikTok%20Videos%20Promoting%20Malware%20Installation/32380 Google Ads Advertise Malware Targeting MacOS Developers Hun…
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SANS Stormcast Friday, October 17th, 2025: New Slack Workspace; Cisco SNMP Exploited; BIOS Backdoor; @sans_edu reseach: Active Defense
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21:28New DShield Support Slack Workspace Due to an error on Salesforce s side, we had to create a new Slack Workspace for DShield support. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/New%20DShield%20Support%20Slack/32376 Attackers Exploiting Recently Patched Cisco SNMP Flaw (CVE-2025-20352) Trend Micro published details explaining how attackers took advantage of a recen…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 16th, 2025: Clipboard Image Stealer; F5 Compromise; Adobe Updates; SAP Patchday
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8:40Clipboard Image Stealer Xavier presents an infostealer in Python that steals images from the clipboard. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Clipboard%20Pictures%20Exfiltration%20in%20Python%20Infostealer/32372 F5 Compromise F5 announced a wide-ranging compromise today. Source code and information about unpatched vulnerabilities were stolen. https://my.f5.co…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 15th, 2025: Microsoft Patchday; Ivanti Advisory; Fortinet Patches
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6:22Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft not only released new patches, but also the last patches for Windows 10, Office 2016, Office 2019, Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20Patch%20Tuesday%20October%202025/32368 Ivanti Advisory Ivanti released an advisory with some mitigation steps users can take until the recently m…
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 14th, 2025: ESAFENET Scans; Payroll Priates; MSFT Edge IE Mode
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6:02Scans for ESAFENET CDG V5 We do see some increase in scans for the Chinese secure document management system, ESAFENET. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Heads%20Up%3A%20Scans%20for%20ESAFENET%20CDG%20V5%20/32364 Investigating targeted payroll pirate attacks affecting US universities Microsoft wrote about how payroll pirates redirect employee paychecks vi…
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SANS Stormcast Monday, October 13th, 2025: More Oracle Patches; Sonicwall Compromisses; Unpatched Gladinet; 7-Zip Patches
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5:56New Oracle E-Business Suite Patches Oracle released one more patch for the e-business suite. Oracle does not state if it is already exploited, but the timing of the patch suggests that it should be expedited. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2025-61884.html Widespread Sonicwall SSLVPN Compromise Huntress Labs observed the widespread…
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SANS Stormcast Friday, October 10th, 2025: RedTail Defenses; SonicWall Breach; Crowdstrike “Issues”; Ivanti 0-days; Mapping Agentic Attack Surface (@sans_edu paper)
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15:12Building Better Defenses: RedTail Observations Defending against attacks like RedTail is more then blocking IoCs, but instead one must focus on the techniques and tactics attackers use. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Guest+Diary+Building+Better+Defenses+RedTail+Observations+from+a+Honeypot/32312 Sonicwall: It wasn t the user s fault Sonicwall admits to…
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 9th, 2025: Polymorphic Python; ssh ProxyCommand Vuln;
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6:12Polymorphic Python Malware Xavier discovered self-modifying Python code on Virustotal. The remote access tool takes advantage of the inspect module to modify code on the fly. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Polymorphic%20Python%20Malware/32354 SSH ProxyCommand Vulnerability A user cloning a git repository may be tricked into executing arbitrary code via…
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 8th, 2025: FreePBX Exploits; Disrupting Teams Threats; Kibana and QT SVG Patches
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5:57By Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 7th, 2025: More About Oracle; Redis Vulnerability; GoAnywhere Exploited
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5:33By Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich
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SANS Stormcast Monday, October 6th, 2025: Oracle 0-Day
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6:28Oracle E-Business Suite 0-Day CVE-2025-61882 Last week, the Cl0p ransomware gang sent messages to many businesses stating that an Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability was used to exfiltrate data. Initially, Oracle believed the root cause to be a vulnerability patched in June, but now Oracle released a patch for a new vulnerability. https://www.ora…
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