SANS Internet Storm Center's Daily Network Security News Podcast

SANS Internet Storm Center's Daily Network Security News Podcast

By: Johannes B. Ullrich

Language: en

Categories: News, Business

A brief daily summary of what is important in information security. The podcast is published every weekday and designed to get you ready for the day with a brief, usually 5 minutes long summary of current network security related events. The content is late breaking, educational and based on listener input as well as on input received by the SANS Internet Storm Center. You may submit questions and comments via our contact form at https://isc.sans.edu/contact.html .

Episodes

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, December 16th, 2025: Current React2Shell Example; SAML woes; MSMQ issues after patch; (#)
Dec 15, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, December 16th, 2025: Current React2Shell Example; SAML woes; MSMQ issues after patch; More React2Shell Exploits CVE-2025-55182 Our honeypots continue to detect numerous React2Shell variants. Some using slightly modified exploits https://isc.sans.edu/diary/More%20React2Shell%20Exploits%20CVE-2025-55182/32572 The Fragile Lock: Novel Bypasses For SAML Authentication SAML is a tricky protocol to implement correctly, in particular if different XML parsers are used that may not always agree on how to parse a specific message https://portswigger.net/research/the-fragile-lock December Updates Causes issues with Microsoft Message Queuing https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/w...

Duration: 00:05:46
SANS Stormcast Monday, December 15th, 2025: DLL Entry Points; ClickFix and Finger; Apple Patches (#)
Dec 14, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, December 15th, 2025: DLL Entry Points; ClickFix and Finger; Apple Patches Abusing DLLs EntryPoint for the Fun DLLs will not just execute code when some of their functions are called, but also as they are loaded. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Abusing%20DLLs%20EntryPoint%20for%20the%20Fun/32562 Apple Patches Everything: December 2025 Edition Apple released patches for all of its operating systems, fixing two already exploited vulnerabilities. ClickFix Attacks Still Using the Finger ClickFix Attacks Still Using the Finger Two examples of ClickFix attacks abusing the finger protocol to load additional malware Denial of Service and Source Code Exposure...

Duration: 00:06:45
SANS Stormcast Friday, December 12th, 2025: Local AI Models; Mystery Chrome 0-Day; SOAPwn Attack (#)
Dec 12, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, December 12th, 2025: Local AI Models; Mystery Chrome 0-Day; SOAPwn Attack Using AI Gemma 3 Locally with a Single CPU Installing AI models on modes hardware is possible and can be useful to experiment with these models on premise https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Using%20AI%20Gemma%203%20Locally%20with%20a%20Single%20CPU%20/32556 "Mystery" Google Chrome 0-Day Vulnerability Google released an update for Google Chrome fixing a vulnerability that is already being exploited, but has not CVE number assigned to it yet https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_10.html SOAPwn: Pwning NET Framework Applications Through HTTP Client Proxies And WSDL Watchtwr...

Duration: 00:06:56
SANS Stormcast Thursday, December 11th, 2025: Possible CVE-2024-9042 variant; react2shell exploits; notepad++ update hijacking; macOS priv escalation (#)
Dec 11, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, December 11th, 2025: Possible CVE-2024-9042 variant; react2shell exploits; notepad++ update hijacking; macOS priv escalation Possible exploit variant for CVE-2024-9042 (Kubernetes OS Command Injection) We observed HTTP requests with our honeypot that may be indicative of a new version of an exploit against an older vulnerability. Help us figure out what is going on. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Possible%20exploit%20variant%20for%20CVE-2024-9042%20%28Kubernetes%20OS%20Command%20Injection%29/32554 React2Shell: Technical Deep-Dive & In-the-Wild Exploitation of CVE-2025-55182 Wiz has a writeup with more background on the React2Shell vulnerability and current attacks https://www.wiz...

Duration: 00:06:58
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, December 10th, 2025: Microsoft, Adobe, Ivanti, Fortinet, and Ruby patches. (#)
Dec 10, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, December 10th, 2025: Microsoft, Adobe, Ivanti, Fortinet, and Ruby patches. Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft released its regular monthly patch on Tuesday, addressing 57 flaws. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20Patch%20Tuesday%20December%202025/32550 Adobe Patches Adobe patched five products. The remote code execution in ColdFusion, as well as the code execution issue in Acrobat, will very likely see exploits soon. https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html Ivanti Endpoint Manager Patches Ivanti patched four vulnerabilities in End Point Manager. https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-EPM-December-2025-for-EPM-2024?language=en_US Fortinet FortiCloud SSO Vulnerability Due to a cryptographic vulnerability, Forinet's...

Duration: 00:08:04
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, December 9th, 2025: nanoKVM Vulnerabilities; Ghostframe Phishing; WatchGuard Advisory (#)
Dec 08, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, December 9th, 2025: nanoKVM Vulnerabilities; Ghostframe Phishing; WatchGuard Advisory nanoKVM Vulnerabilities The nanoKVM device updates firmware insecurely; however, the microphone that the authors of the advisory referred to as "undocumented" may actually be documented in the underlying hardware description. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/researcher-finds-undocumented-microphone-and-major-security-flaws-in-sipeed-nanokvm Ghostframe Phishing Kit The Ghostframe phishing kit uses iFrames and random subdomains to evade detection https://blog.barracuda.com/2025/12/04/threat-spotlight-ghostframe-phishing-kit WatchGuard Advisory WatchGuard released an update for its Firebox appliance, fixing ten vulnerabilities. Five of these are rated as "High." https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-psirt/advisories keywords: sipeed; nanokvm; kvm; ghostframe; watchguard

Duration: 00:06:26
SANS Stormcast Monday, December 8th, 2025: AutoIT3 FileInstall; React2Shell Update; Tika Vuln (#)
Dec 08, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, December 8th, 2025: AutoIT3 FileInstall; React2Shell Update; Tika Vuln AutoIT3 Compiled Scripts Dropping Shellcodes Malicious AutoIT3 scripts are usign the "FileInstall" function to include additional scripts at compile time that are dropped as temporary files during execution. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/AutoIT3%20Compiled%20Scripts%20Dropping%20Shellcodes/32542 React2Shell Update The race is on to patch vulnerable systems. Various groups are aggressively scanning the internet with different exploit variants. Some attempt to bypass WAFs. https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/china-nexus-cyber-threat-groups-rapidly-exploit-react2shell-vulnerability-cve-2025-55182/ Apache Tika XXE Flaw Apache's Tika library patched...

Duration: 00:05:35
SANS Stormcast Friday, December 5th, 2025: Compromised Govt System; React Vuln Update; Array Networks VPN Attacks (#)
Dec 05, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, December 5th, 2025: Compromised Govt System; React Vuln Update; Array Networks VPN Attacks Nation-State Attack or Compromised Government? [Guest Diary] An IP address associated with the Indonesian Government attacked one of our interns' honeypots. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Nation-State%20Attack%20or%20Compromised%20Government%3F%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/32536 React Update Working exploits for the React vulnerability patched yesterday are not widely available Array Networks Array AG Vulnerablity A recently patched vulnerability in Array Networks' Array AG VPN gateways is actively exploited. https://www.jpcert.or.jp/at/2025/at250024.html keywords: react; ssh; array networks; vpn

Duration: 00:04:35
SANS Stormcast Thursday, December 4th, 2025: CDN Headers; React Vulnerabiity; PickleScan Patch (#)
Dec 04, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, December 4th, 2025: CDN Headers; React Vulnerabiity; PickleScan Patch Attempts to Bypass CDNs Our honeypots recently started receiving scans that included CDN specific headers. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Attempts%20to%20Bypass%20CDNs/32532 React Vulnerability CVE-2025-55182 React patched a critical vulnerability in React server components. Exploitation is likely imminent. https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerability-in-react-server-components Unveiling 3 PickleScan Vulnerabilities The PyTorch AI model security tool, PickleScan, has patched three critical vulnerabilities. https://jfrog.com/blog/unveiling-3-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-picklescan/ keywords: pytorch; picklescan; react; server components; cdn;

Duration: 00:06:45
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025: SmartTube Compromise; NPM Malware Prompt Injection Attempt; Angular XSS Vulnerability (#)
Dec 03, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025: SmartTube Compromise; NPM Malware Prompt Injection Attempt; Angular XSS Vulnerability SmartTube Android App Compromise The key a developer used to sign the Android YouTube player SmartTube was compromised and used to publish a malicious version. https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/issues/5131#issue-3670629826 https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases/tag/notification Two Years, 17K Downloads: The NPM Malware That Tried to Gaslight Security Scanners Over the course of two years, a malicious NPM package was updated to evade detection and has now been identified, in part, due to its attempt to bypass AI scanners through prompt...

Duration: 00:06:06
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025: Analyzing ToolShell from Packdets; Android Update; Long Game Malicious Browser Ext. (#)
Dec 02, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025: Analyzing ToolShell from Packdets; Android Update; Long Game Malicious Browser Ext. Hunting for SharePoint In-Memory ToolShell Payloads A walk-through showing how to analyze ToolShell payloads, starting with acquiring packets all the way to decoding embedded PowerShell commands. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Hunting%20for%20SharePoint%20In-Memory%20ToolShell%20Payloads/32524 Android Security Bulletin—December 2025 Google fixed numerous vulnerabilities with its December Android update. Two of these vulnerabilities are already being exploited. https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-12-01 4.3 Million Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign A group or individual released several br...

Duration: 00:05:49
SANS Stormcast Monday, December 1st, 2025: More ClickFix; Teams Guest Access; Geoserver XXE Vulnerablity (#)
Dec 01, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, December 1st, 2025: More ClickFix; Teams Guest Access; Geoserver XXE Vulnerablity Fake adult websites pop realistic Windows Update screen to deliver stealers via ClickFix The latest variant of ClickFix tricks users into copy/pasting commands by displaying a fake blue screen of death. https://www.acronis.com/en/tru/posts/fake-adult-websites-pop-realistic-windows-update-screen-to-deliver-stealers-via-clickfix/ B2B Guest Access Creates an Unprotected Attack Vector Users may be tricked into joining an external Teams workspace as a guest, bypassing protections typically enabled for Teams workspaces. https://www.ontinue.com/resource/blog-microsoft-chat-with-anyone-understanding-phishing-risk/ Geoserver XXE Vulnerability CVE-2025-58360 Geoserver patched an external XML entity (XXE...

Duration: 00:05:42
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 26th, 2025: Attacks Against Messaging; Passwords in Random Websites; Fluentbit Vuln; #thanksgiving (#)
Nov 26, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 26th, 2025: Attacks Against Messaging; Passwords in Random Websites; Fluentbit Vuln; #thanksgiving Spyware Allows Cyber Threat Actors to Target Users of Messaging Applications Spyware attacks messaging applications in part by triggering vulnerabilities in messaging applications but also by deploying tools like keystroke loggers and screenshot applications. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/11/24/spyware-allows-cyber-threat-actors-target-users-messaging-applications Stop Putting Your Passwords Into Random Websites
Yes. Just Stop! https://labs.watchtowr.com/stop-putting-your-passwords-into-random-websites-yes-seriously-you-are-the-problem/ Fluentbit Vulnerability https://www.oligo.security/blog/critical-vulnerabilities-in-fluent-bit-expose-cloud-environments-to-remote-takeover Happy Thanksgiving. Next podcast on Monday after Thanksgiving. keywords: fluentbit; passwords; spyware; messaging

Duration: 00:06:07
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 25th, 2025: URL Mapping and Authentication; SHA1-Hulud; Hacklore (#)
Nov 25, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 25th, 2025: URL Mapping and Authentication; SHA1-Hulud; Hacklore Conflicts between URL mapping and URL based access control. Mapping different URLs to the same script, and relying on URL based authentication at the same time, may lead to dangerous authentication and access control gaps. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Conflicts%20between%20URL%20mapping%20and%20URL%20based%20access%20control./32518 Sha1-Hulud, The Second Coming A new, destructive variant of the Shai-Hulud worm is currently spreading through NPM/Github repos. https://www.koi.ai/incident/live-updates-sha1-hulud-the-second-coming-hundred-npm-packages-compromised Hacklore: Cleaning up Outdated Security Advice A new website, hacklore.org, has...

Duration: 00:06:11
Nov 24, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, November 24th, 2025: CSS Padding in Phishing; Oracle Identity Manager Scans Update; Use of CSS stuffing as an obfuscation technique? Phishing sites stuff their HTML with benign CSS code. This is likely supposed to throw of simple detection engines https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Use%20of%20CSS%20stuffing%20as%20an%20obfuscation%20technique%3F/32510 Critical Oracle Identity Manager Flaw Possibly Exploited as Zero-Day Early exploit attempts for the vulnerability were part of Searchlight Cyber's research effort https://www.securityweek.com/critical-oracle-identity-manager-flaw-possibly-exploited-as-zero-day/ ClamAV Cleaning Signature Database ClamAV will significantly clean up its signature database https://blog.clamav.net/2025/11/clamav-signature-retirement-announcement.html...

Duration: 00:05:00
Nov 21, 2025

Duration: 00:00:25
SANS Stormcast Friday, November 21st, 2025: Oracle Idendity Manager Scans; SonicWall DoS Vuln; Adam Wilson (@sans_edu) reducing prompt injection. (#)
Nov 20, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, November 21st, 2025: Oracle Idendity Manager Scans; SonicWall DoS Vuln; Adam Wilson (@sans_edu) reducing prompt injection. Oracle Identity Manager Exploit Observation from September (CVE-2025-61757) We observed some exploit attempts in September against an Oracle Identity Manager vulnerability that was patched in October, indicating that exploitation may have occurred prior to the patch being released. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Oracle%20Identity%20Manager%20Exploit%20Observation%20from%20September%20%28CVE-2025-61757%29/32506 https://slcyber.io/research-center/breaking-oracles-identity-manager-pre-auth-rce/ DigitStealer: a JXA-based infostealer that leaves little footprint https://www.jamf.com/blog/jtl-digitstealer-macos-infostealer-analysis/ SonicWall DoS Vulnerability Sonicwall patched a DoS vulnerability in...

Duration: 00:14:09
SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 20th, 2025: Unicode Issues; FortiWeb More Vulns; DLink DIR-878 Vuln; Operation WrtHug and ASUS Routers (#)
Nov 19, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 20th, 2025: Unicode Issues; FortiWeb More Vulns; DLink DIR-878 Vuln; Operation WrtHug and ASUS Routers Unicode: It is more than funny domain names. Unicode can cause a number of issues due to odd features like variance selectors and text direction issues. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Unicode%3A%20It%20is%20more%20than%20funny%20domain%20names./32472 FortiWeb Multiple OS command injection in API and CLI A second silently patched vulnerability in FortiWeb is already being exploited in the wild. https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-513 DLink DIR-878 Vulnerability DLink disclosed four different vulnerabilities in its popular DIR-878...

Duration: 00:06:35
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 19th, 2025: Kong Tuke; Cloudflare Outage (#)
Nov 19, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 19th, 2025: Kong Tuke; Cloudflare Outage KongTuke Activity This diary investigates how a recent Kong Tuke infections evolved all the way from starting with a ClickFix attack. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/KongTuke%20activity/32498 Cloudflare Outage Cloudflare suffered a large outage today after an oversized configuration file was loaded into its bot protection service https://x.com/dok2001 Google Patches Chrome 0-Day Google patched two vulnerabilities in Chrome. One of them is already being exploited. https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_17.html keywords: google; chrome; v8; cloudflare; outages; kongtuke; clickfix

Duration: 00:04:39
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 18th, 2025: Binary Expression Decoding. Tea NPM Pollution; IBM AIX NIMSH Vulnerability (#)
Nov 17, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 18th, 2025: Binary Expression Decoding. Tea NPM Pollution; IBM AIX NIMSH Vulnerability Decoding Binary Numeric Expressions Didier updated his number to hex script to support simple arithmetic operations in the text. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Decoding%20Binary%20Numeric%20Expressions/32490 Tea Token NPM Pollution The NPM repository was hit with around 150,000 submissions that did not contain any useful contributions, but instead attempted to fake contributions to earn a new "tea" coin. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-inspector-detects-over-150000-malicious-packages-linked-to-token-farming-campaign/ IBM AIX NIMSH Vulnerabilities IBM patched several critical vulnerablities in the NIMSH daemon https://www.ibm.com/support...

Duration: 00:04:59
SANS Stormcast Monday, November 17th, 2025: New(isch) Fortiweb Vulnerability; Finger and ClickFix (#)
Nov 16, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, November 17th, 2025: New(isch) Fortiweb Vulnerability; Finger and ClickFix Fortiweb Vulnerability Fortinet, with significant delay, acknowledged a recently patched vulnerability after exploit attempts were seen publicly. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Honeypot+FortiWeb+CVE202564446+Exploits/32486 https://labs.watchtowr.com/when-the-impersonation-function-gets-used-to-impersonate-users-fortinet-fortiweb-auth-bypass/ https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-910?ref=labs.watchtowr.com Flnger.exe and ClickFix Attackers started to use the finger.exe binary to retrieve additional payload in ClickFix attacks https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Finger.exe%20%26%20ClickFix/32492 keywords: clickfix; finger; fortiweb; finger.exe; fortinet

Duration: 00:07:11
SANS Stormcast Friday, November 14th, 2025: SmartApeSG and ClickFix; Formbook Obfuscation Tricks; Sudo-rs Vulnerabilities; SANS Holiday Hack Challenge (#)
Nov 14, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, November 14th, 2025: SmartApeSG and ClickFix; Formbook Obfuscation Tricks; Sudo-rs Vulnerabilities; SANS Holiday Hack Challenge SmartApeSG campaign uses ClickFix page to push NetSupport RAT A detailed analysis of a recent SamtApeSG campaign taking advantage of ClickFix https://isc.sans.edu/diary/32474 Formbook Delivered Through Multiple Scripts An analysis of a recent version of Formbook showing how it takes advantage of multiple obfuscation tricks https://isc.sans.edu/diary/32480 sudo-rs vulnerabilities Two vulnerabilities were patched in sudo-rs, the version of sudo written in Rust showing that while Rust does have advantage when it comes to memory safety, there are...

Duration: 00:10:10
SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 13th, 2025: OWASP Top 10 Update; Cisco/Citrix Exploits; Test post quantum readiness (#)
Nov 13, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 13th, 2025: OWASP Top 10 Update; Cisco/Citrix Exploits; Test post quantum readiness OWASP Top 10 2025 Release Candidate OWASP published a release candidate for the 2025 version of its Top 10 list https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/0x00_2025-Introduction/ Citrix/Cisco Exploitation Details Amazon detailed how Citrix and Cisco vulnerabilities were used by advanced actors to upload webshells https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-discovers-apt-exploiting-cisco-and-citrix-zero-days/ Testing Quantum Readyness A website tests your services for post-quantum computing-resistant cryptographic algorithms https://qcready.com/ keywords: quantum; crypto; citrix; cisco; owasp

Duration: 00:06:34
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 12th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; Gladinet Triofox Vulnerability; SAP Patches (#)
Nov 11, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 12th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; Gladinet Triofox Vulnerability; SAP Patches Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft+Patch+Tuesday+for+November+2025/32468/ Gladinet Triofox Vulnerability Triofox uses the "host" header in lieu of proper access control, allowing an attacker to access the page managing administrators by simply setting the host header to localhost. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/triofox-vulnerability-cve-2025-12480/ SAP November 2025 Patch Day SAP fixed a critical vulnerability, fixed default credentials in its SQL Anywhere Monitor https://onapsis.com/blog/sap-security-patch-day-november-2025/ Ivanti Endpoint Manager Updates https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article...

Duration: 00:06:03
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 11th, 2025: 3CX Related Scans; Watchguard Default Password; (#)
Nov 11, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 11th, 2025: 3CX Related Scans; Watchguard Default Password; It isn't always defaults: Scans for 3CX Usernames Our honeypots detected scans for usernames that may be related to 3CX business phone systems https://isc.sans.edu/diary/It%20isn%27t%20always%20defaults%3A%20Scans%20for%203CX%20usernames/32464 Watchguard Default Password Controversy A CVE number was assigned to a default password commonly used in Watchguard products. This was a documented username and password that was recently removed in a firmware upgrade. https://github.com/cyberbyte000/CVE-2025-59396/blob/main/CVE-2025-59396.txt https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025...

Duration: 00:07:26
SANS Stormcast Monday, November 10th, 2025: Code Repo Requests; Time Delayed ICS Attacks; Encrypted LLM Traffic Sidechannel Attacks (#)
Nov 10, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, November 10th, 2025: Code Repo Requests; Time Delayed ICS Attacks; Encrypted LLM Traffic Sidechannel Attacks Honeypot Requests for Code Repository Attackers continue to scan websites for source code repositories. Keep your repositories outside your document root and proactively scan your own sites. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Honeypot%3A%20Requests%20for%20%28Code%29%20Repositories/32460 Malicious NuGet Packages Deliver Time-Delayed Destructive Payloads Newly discovered malicious .NET packages attempt to deliver a time-delayed attack targeting ICS systems. https://socket.dev/blog/9-malicious-nuget-packages-deliver-time-delayed-destructive-payloads Side Channel Leaks in Encrypted Traffic to LLMs Traffic to LLMs can be profiled to discover the nature of...

Duration: 00:07:07
SANS Stormcast Friday, November 7th, 2025: PowerShell Log Correlation; RondoBox Disected; Google Chrome and Cisco Patches (#)
Nov 06, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, November 7th, 2025: PowerShell Log Correlation; RondoBox Disected; Google Chrome and Cisco Patches Binary 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%20Diary%5D/32454 RondoDox v2 Increases Exploits The RondoDox (or RondoWorm) added a substantial amount of new exploits to its repertoire. https://beelzebub.ai/blog/rondo-dox-v2/ Google Chrome Updates Google released an update for Google Chrome addressing five vulnerabilities. https://chromereleases...

Duration: 00:05:31
SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 6th, 2025: Domain API Update; Teams Spoofing; VShell Report (#)
Nov 05, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 6th, 2025: Domain API Update; Teams Spoofing; VShell Report Updates 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 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Teams https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/microsoft-teams-impersonation-and-spoofing-vulnerabilities-exposed/ NViso Report: VSHELL NViso published an amazingly detailed report describing the remote control implant VSHELL. The report includes details about the inner workings of the tool as well as...

Duration: 00:05:43
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 5th, 2025: Apple Patches; Exploits against Trucking and Logistic; Google Android Patches
Nov 05, 2025

Apple 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 tools to inject malware into other companies or learn about high-value loads in order to steal them. https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/remote-access-real-cargo-cybercriminals-targeting-trucking-and-logistics Google Android Patch Day Google released its usual monthly Android updates this week https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-11-01 keywords: apple; patches; trucks; google

Duration: 00:06:30
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 4th, 2025: XWiki SolrSearch Exploits and Rapper Feud; AMD Zen 5 RDSEED Bug; More Malicious Open VSX Extensions (#)
Nov 03, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 4th, 2025: XWiki SolrSearch Exploits and Rapper Feud; AMD Zen 5 RDSEED Bug; More Malicious Open VSX Extensions XWiki 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 Number Generator Bug The RDSEED function for AMD's Zen 5 processors does return 0 more often than it should. https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7055.html SleepyDuck malware invades...

Duration: 00:06:56
SANS Stormcast Monday, November 3rd, 2025: Port 8530/8531 Scans; BADCANDY Webshells; Open VSX Security Improvements (#)
Nov 03, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, November 3rd, 2025: Port 8530/8531 Scans; BADCANDY Webshells; Open VSX Security Improvements Scans 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%20CVE-2025-59287/32440 BADCANDY Webshell Implant Deployed via The Australian Signals Directorate warns that they still see Cisco IOS XE devices not patches for CVE-2023-20198. A threat actor is now using this vulnerability to deploy the BADCANDY...

Duration: 00:06:27
SANS Stormcast Friday, October 31st, 2025: Bug Bounty Headers; Exchange hardening; MOVEIt vulnerability (#)
Oct 30, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, October 31st, 2025: Bug Bounty Headers; Exchange hardening; MOVEIt vulnerability X-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%20Identifying%20%22research%22%20and%20bug%20bounty%20related%20scans%3F/32436 Proton Breach Observatory Proton opened up its breach observatory. This website will collect information about breaches affecting companies that have not yet made the breach public. https://proton...

Duration: 00:06:20
SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 30th, 2025: Memory Only Filesystems Forensics; Azure Outage; docker-compose patch (#)
Oct 29, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 30th, 2025: Memory Only Filesystems Forensics; Azure Outage; docker-compose patch How 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 service failed, leading to users not being able to authenticate to various Azure-related services. https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status Docker-Compose Vulnerability A vulnerability in docker-compose may be used to trick users into creating files outside...

Duration: 00:06:07
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 29th, 2025: Invisible Subject Character Phishing; Tomcat PUT Vuln; BIND9 Spoofing Vuln PoC (#)
Oct 29, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 29th, 2025: Invisible Subject Character Phishing; Tomcat PUT Vuln; BIND9 Spoofing Vuln PoC Phishing 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/32428 Apache Tomcat PUT Directory Traversal Apache released an update to Tomcat fixing a directory traversal vulnerability in how the PUT method is used. Exploits could upload arbitrary files, leading to remote...

Duration: 00:08:05
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 28th, 2025: Bytes over DNS; Unifi Access Vuln; OpenAI Atlas Prompt Injection (#)
Oct 27, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 28th, 2025: Bytes over DNS; Unifi Access Vuln; OpenAI Atlas Prompt Injection Bytes 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/Security-Advisory-Bulletin-056-056/ce97352d-91cd-40a7-a2f4-2c73b3b30191 OpenAI Atlas Omnibox Prompt Injection OpenAI’s latest browser can be jailbroken by inserting prompts in URLs https://neuraltrust.ai/blog...

Duration: 00:06:17
SANS Stormcast Monday, October 27th, 2025: Bilingual Phishing; Kaitai Struct WebIDE (#)
Oct 26, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, October 27th, 2025: Bilingual Phishing; Kaitai Struct WebIDE Bilingual 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/diary/Kaitai%20Struct%20WebIDE/32422 WSUS Emergency Update Microsoft released an emergency patch for WSUS to fix a currently exploited critical vulnerability https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59287 Network Security Devices Endanger Orgs with 90s-era Flaws Attackers increasingly...

Duration: 00:06:21
SANS Stormcast Friday, October 24th, 2025: Android Infostealer; SessionReaper Exploited; BIND/unbound DNS Spoofing fix; WSUS Exploit (#)
Oct 23, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, October 24th, 2025: Android Infostealer; SessionReaper Exploited; BIND/unbound DNS Spoofing fix; WSUS Exploit Infostealer 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-2025-54236 Six weeks after Adobe's emergency patch, SessionReaper (CVE-2025-54236) has entered active exploitation. E-Commerce security company SanSec has detected multiple exploit attempts. https://sansec.io/research/sessionreaper-exploitation Patch for BIND and unbound nameservers CVE-2025-40780 The Internet Systems...

Duration: 00:06:25
SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 23rd, 2025: Blue Angle Software Exploit; Oracle CPU; Rust tar library vulnerability. (#)
Oct 23, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 23rd, 2025: Blue Angle Software Exploit; Oracle CPU; Rust tar library vulnerability. webctrl.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 Update Oracle released its quarterly critical patch update. The update includes patches for 374 vulnerabilities across all of Oracle’s products. There are nine more patches for Oracle’s e-Business Suite. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2025.html...

Duration: 00:07:28
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025: NTP Pool; Xubuntu Compromise; Squid Vulnerability; Lanscope Vuln; (#)
Oct 21, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025: NTP Pool; Xubuntu Compromise; Squid Vulnerability; Lanscope Vuln; What 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 Proxy Vulnerability The Squid team fixed an information disclosure vulnerabilty that may leak authentication credentials. https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-c8cc-phh7-xmxr Lanscope Endpoint Manager Vulnerablity https://jvn.jp...

Duration: 00:06:37
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 21st, 2025: Syscall() Obfuscation; AWS down; Beijing Time Attack (#)
Oct 20, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 21st, 2025: Syscall() Obfuscation; AWS down; Beijing Time Attack Using 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. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status Time Server Hack China reports a compromise of its time standard servers. https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/mss-claims-nsa-used-42-cyber-tools-in.html keywords: ntp; time; china; aws; outage; syscall; python; obfuscation; malware;

Duration: 00:09:17
SANS Stormcast Monday, October 20th, 2025: Malicious Tiktok; More Google Ad Problems; Satellite Insecurity (#)
Oct 19, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, October 20th, 2025: Malicious Tiktok; More Google Ad Problems; Satellite Insecurity TikTok 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 Hunt.io discovered Google ads that pretend to advertise tools like Homebrew and password managers to spread malware https://hunt.io/blog/macos-odyssey-amos-malware-campaign Satellite Transmissions are often unencrypted A large amount of satellite traffic is unencrypted and easily accessible to eavesdropping https://satcom.sysnet...

Duration: 00:06:15
SANS Stormcast Friday, October 17th, 2025: New Slack Workspace; Cisco SNMP Exploited; BIOS Backdoor; @sans_edu reseach: Active Defense (#)
Oct 17, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, October 17th, 2025: New Slack Workspace; Cisco SNMP Exploited; BIOS Backdoor; @sans_edu reseach: Active Defense New 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 recently patched Cisco SNMP Vulnerability https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/j/operation-zero-disco-cisco-snmp-vulnerability-exploit.html https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snmp-x4LPhte Framework BIOS Backdoor Th...

Duration: 00:21:28
SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 16th, 2025: Clipboard Image Stealer; F5 Compromise; Adobe Updates; SAP Patchday (#)
Oct 15, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 16th, 2025: Clipboard Image Stealer; F5 Compromise; Adobe Updates; SAP Patchday Clipboard 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.com/manage/s/article/K000157005
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000156572
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000154696 Adobe Updates Adobe updated 12 different products yesterday. https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html SAP Patchday Among the critical vulnerabilities patc...

Duration: 00:08:40
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 15th, 2025: Microsoft Patchday; Ivanti Advisory; Fortinet Patches (#)
Oct 14, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 15th, 2025: Microsoft Patchday; Ivanti Advisory; Fortinet Patches Microsoft 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 made public vulnerablities are patched. https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Ivanti-Endpoint-Manager-EPM-October-2025?language=en_US Fortinet Patches https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-010 https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-361 keywords: ivanti; microsoft; patches; fortinet;

Duration: 00:06:22
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 14th, 2025: ESAFENET Scans; Payroll Priates; MSFT Edge IE Mode (#)
Oct 13, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 14th, 2025: ESAFENET Scans; Payroll Priates; MSFT Edge IE Mode Scans 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 via phishing. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/09/investigating-targeted-payroll-pirate-attacks-affecting-us-universities/ Attacks against Edge via IE Mode Microsoft Edge offers an IE legacy mode to support websites created for Internet Explorer. The old JavaScript engine, which is part of t...

Duration: 00:06:03
SANS Stormcast Monday, October 13th, 2025: More Oracle Patches; Sonicwall Compromisses; Unpatched Gladinet; 7-Zip Patches (#)
Oct 12, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, October 13th, 2025: More Oracle Patches; Sonicwall Compromisses; Unpatched Gladinet; 7-Zip Patches New 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 compromise of the Sonicwall SSLVPN appliance. https://www.huntress.com/blog/sonicwall-sslvpn-compromise Active Exploitation of Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox Local File Inclusion Flaw (CVE-2025-11371) An unpatched vulnerability in the “secure” file sharing solutions Glad...

Duration: 00:05:56
SANS Stormcast Friday, October 10th, 2025: RedTail Defenses; SonicWall Breach; Crowdstrike “Issues”; Ivanti 0-days; Mapping Agentic Attack Surface (@sans_edu paper) (#)
Oct 10, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, October 10th, 2025: RedTail Defenses; SonicWall Breach; Crowdstrike “Issues”; Ivanti 0-days; Mapping Agentic Attack Surface (@sans_edu paper) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Guest+Diary+Building+Better+Defenses+RedTail+Observations+from+a+Honeypot/32312 Defending against attacks like RedTail is more then blocking IoCs, but instead one must focus on the techniques and tactics attackers use. Sonicwall: It wasn’t the user’s fault Sonicwall admits to a breach resulting in the loss of user configurations stored in its cloud service https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/mysonicwall-cloud-backup-file-incident/250915160910330 Crowdstrike has Issues Crowdstrike fixes two vulnerabilities in the Windows version of its F...

Duration: 00:15:13
SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 9th, 2025: Polymorphic Python; ssh ProxyCommand Vuln; (#)
Oct 09, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 9th, 2025: Polymorphic Python; ssh ProxyCommand Vuln; Polymorphic 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 the SSH proxycommand option. https://dgl.cx/2025/10/bash-a-newline-ssh-proxycommand-cve-2025-61984 Framelink Figma MCP Server CVE-2025-53967 Framelink Figma’s MCP server suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability. keywords: polymorphic; python; git; ssh; proxycommand;

Duration: 00:06:12
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 8th, 2025: FreePBX Exploits; Disrupting Teams Threats; Kibana and QT SVG Patches (#)
Oct 08, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 8th, 2025: FreePBX Exploits; Disrupting Teams Threats; Kibana and QT SVG Patches FreePBX Exploit Attempts (CVE-2025-57819) A FreePBX SQL injection vulnerability disclosed in August is being used to execute code on affected systems. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploit%20Against%20FreePBX%20%28CVE-2025-57819%29%20with%20code%20execution./32350 Disrupting Threats Targeting Microsoft Teams Microsoft published a blog post outlining how to better secure Teams. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/07/disrupting-threats-targeting-microsoft-teams/ Kibana XSS Patch CVE-2025-25009 Elastic patched a stored XSS vulnerability in Kibana https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-18-8-8-19-5-9-0...

Duration: 00:05:57
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 7th, 2025: More About Oracle; Redis Vulnerability; GoAnywhere Exploited (#)
Oct 07, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 7th, 2025: More About Oracle; Redis Vulnerability; GoAnywhere Exploited More Details About Oracle 0-Day The exploit is now widely distributed and has been analyzed to show the nature of the underlying vulnerabilities. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Quick%20and%20Dirty%20Analysis%20of%20Possible%20Oracle%20E-Business%20Suite%20Exploit%20Script%20%28CVE-2025-61882%29%20%5BUPDATED%5B/32346 https://labs.watchtowr.com/well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882/ Redis Vulnerability Redis patched a ciritcal use after free vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution. https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/ GoAnywhere Bug Exploited Microsoft is reporting about the exploitation of the recent GoAnywhere vulnerability...

Duration: 00:05:34
SANS Stormcast Monday, October 6th, 2025: Oracle 0-Day (#)
Oct 06, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, October 6th, 2025: Oracle 0-Day Oracle 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.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2025-61882.html Zimbra Exploit Analysis An exploit against a Zimbra system prior to the patch release is analyzed. These exploits take advantage of .ics files to breach vulnerable systems. https://strikeready.com/blog/0day-ics-attack-in-the-wild...

Duration: 00:06:29
SANS Stormcast Friday, October 3rd, 2025: More .well-known Scans; RedHat Openshift Patch; TOTOLINK Vuln; (#)
Oct 02, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, October 3rd, 2025: More .well-known Scans; RedHat Openshift Patch; TOTOLINK Vuln; More .well-known scans Attackers are using API documentation automatically published in the .well-known directory for reconnaissance. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/More%20.well-known%20Scans/32340 RedHat Patches Openshift AI Services A flaw was found in Red Hat Openshift AI Service. A low-privileged attacker with access to an authenticated account, for example, as a data scientist using a standard Jupyter notebook, can escalate their privileges to a full cluster administrator.  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-10725#cve-affected-packages TOTOLINK X6000R Vulnerabilities Paloalto released details regarding three recently p...

Duration: 00:06:35
SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 2nd, 2025: Honeypot Passwords; OneLogin Vuln; Breaking Intel SGX; OpenSSL Patch (#)
Oct 01, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 2nd, 2025: Honeypot Passwords; OneLogin Vuln; Breaking Intel SGX; OpenSSL Patch Comparing Honeypot Passwords with HIBP Most passwords used against our honeypots are also found in the “Have I been pwn3d” list. However, the few percent that are not found tend to be variations of known passwords, extending them to find likely mutations. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Comparing%20Honeypot%20Passwords%20with%20HIBP/32310 Breaking Server SGX via DRAM Inspection By observing read and write operations to memory, it is possible to derive keys stored in SGX and break the security of systems relying on S...

Duration: 00:08:12
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 1st, 2025: Cookie Auth Issues; Western Digtial Command Injection; sudo exploited; (#)
Sep 30, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 1st, 2025: Cookie Auth Issues; Western Digtial Command Injection; sudo exploited; 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 Cloud Vulnerability Western Digital patched a critical vulnerability in its “MyCloud” device. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-30247 sudo vulnerability exploited A recently patched vulnerability in sudo is now being exploite...

Duration: 00:05:10
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 30th, 2025: Apple Patch; PAN Global Protect Scans; SSL.com signed malware (#)
Sep 29, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 30th, 2025: Apple Patch; PAN Global Protect Scans; SSL.com signed malware 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 Protect vulnerability. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Increase%20in%20Scans%20for%20Palo%20Alto%20Global%20Protect%20Vulnerability%20%28CVE-2024-3400%29/32328 Nimbus Manticore / Charming Kitten Malware update Checkpoint released a report with details regarding a new Nimbus Manticore...

Duration: 00:05:06
SANS Stormcast Monday, September 29th, 2025: Convert Timestamps; Cisco Compromises; GitHub Notification Phishing (#)
Sep 29, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, September 29th, 2025: Convert Timestamps; Cisco Compromises; GitHub Notification Phishing 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 Exploitation of the vulnerabilities Cisco patched last week may have bone back about a year. Cisco and CISA have released advisories with help identifying affected devices. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center...

Duration: 00:08:36
SANS Stormcast Friday, September 26th, 2025: Webshells in .well-known; Critical Cisco Vulns Exploited; XCSSET Update; GoAnywhere MFT Exploit Details (#)
Sep 26, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, September 26th, 2025: Webshells in .well-known; Critical Cisco Vulns Exploited; XCSSET Update; GoAnywhere MFT Exploit Details 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 vulnerabilities in the VPN web server for the ASA and FTD appliances. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/resources/asa_ftd_continued_attacks https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-webvpn-z5xP8EUB https...

Duration: 00:05:25
SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 25th, 2025: Hikvision Exploits; Cisco Patches; Sonicawall Anit-Rootkit Patch; Windows 10 Support (#)
Sep 25, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 25th, 2025: Hikvision Exploits; Cisco Patches; Sonicawall Anit-Rootkit Patch; Windows 10 Support 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/32316 Cisco Patches Already Exploited SNMP Vulnerability Cisco patched a stack-based buffer overflow in the SNMP subsystem. It is already exploited in the wild, but requires admin privileges to achieve code execution. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco...

Duration: 00:05:33
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 24th, 2025: DoS against the Analyst; GitHub Improvements; Solarwinds and Supermicro BMC vulnerabilities (#)
Sep 24, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 24th, 2025: DoS against the Analyst; GitHub Improvements; Solarwinds and Supermicro BMC vulnerabilities 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 secure npm supply chain GitHub outlined its plan to harden the supply chain, in particular in light of the recent attack against npm packages https://github.blog/se...

Duration: 00:07:23
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025: Ivanti EPMM Exploit; GitHub Impersonation (#)
Sep 23, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025: Ivanti EPMM Exploit; GitHub Impersonation 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 fake GitHub repositories in order to trick victims to download Mac malware. https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/attack-targeting-macs-via-github-pages Oracle Scheduler Ransomware Ransomware has been discovered that gained access to systems via an exposed Oracle Database Scheduler service. https://labs.yarix.com/2025/09...

Duration: 00:04:50
SANS Stormcast Monday, September 22nd, 2025: Odd HTTP Reuqest; GoAnywhere MFT Bug; EDR Freeze (#)
Sep 22, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, September 22nd, 2025: Odd HTTP Reuqest; GoAnywhere MFT Bug; EDR Freeze 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 product suffers from a critical deserialization vulnerability. Forta released an advisory disclosing the vulnerability on Thursday. https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/product-security/fi-2025-012 EDR Freeze A ne...

Duration: 00:09:03
SANS Stormcast Friday, September 19th, 2025: Honeypot File Analysis (@sans_edu); SonicWall Breach; DeepSeek Bias; Chrome 0-day (#)
Sep 18, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, September 19th, 2025: Honeypot File Analysis (@sans_edu); SonicWall Breach; DeepSeek Bias; Chrome 0-day 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 credential brute forcing https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/mysonicwall-cloud-backup-file-incident/250915160910330 DeepSeek Bias Cloudflare found significant biases in code created by the Chinese AI engine DeepSeek. Code for organizations not aligned with China’s politics contained signif...

Duration: 00:07:15
SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 18th, 2025: DLL Hooking; Entra ID Actor Tokens; Watchguard and NVidia Patches (#)
Sep 17, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 18th, 2025: DLL Hooking; Entra ID Actor Tokens; Watchguard and NVidia Patches 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, Dirk-jan Mollema has published a blog post showing how this vulnerability could have been exploited. https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/ WatchGuard  Firebox iked Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability CVE-2025-9242 WatchGuard patched an...

Duration: 00:06:32
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 17th, 2025: Phishing Resistants; More npm Attacks; ChatGPT MCP abuse (#)
Sep 16, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 17th, 2025: Phishing Resistants; More npm Attacks; ChatGPT MCP abuse 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 hit over a hundred npm-related GitHub repositories. The updated payload implements a worm that propagates itself to other repositories. https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again ChatGPT’s Calendar Integration Can Be Exploited to Steal...

Duration: 00:08:48
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 16th, 2025: Apple Updates; Rust Phishing; Samsung 0-day (#)
Sep 15, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 16th, 2025: Apple Updates; Rust Phishing; Samsung 0-day 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 end. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-support-ends-on-october-14-2025-2ca8b313-1946-43d3-b55c-2b95b107f281#:~:text=As%20a%20reminder%2C%20Windows%2010,one%20that%20supports%20Windows%2011. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/t-9-months-exchange-server-2016-and-exchange-server-2019-end-of-support/4366605 Phishing...

Duration: 00:06:43
SANS Stormcast Monday, September 15th, 2025: More Archives; Salesforce Attacks; White Cobra; BSides Augusta (#)
Sep 15, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, September 15th, 2025: More Archives; Salesforce Attacks; White Cobra; BSides Augusta 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. There are no new vulnerabilities disclosed, but the initial access usually takes advantage of social engineering or leaked data from the Salesdrift compromise. https://www.ic3.gov/CSA/2025/250912.pdf VSCode Cursor Extensions Malware Koe...

Duration: 00:06:06
SANS Stormcast Friday, September 12th, 2025: DShield SIEM Update; Another Sonicwall Warning; Website Keystroke Logging (#)
Sep 11, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, September 12th, 2025: DShield SIEM Update; Another Sonicwall Warning; Website Keystroke Logging 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.gov.au/about-us/view-all-content/alerts-and-advisories/ongoing-active-exploitation-of-sonicwall-ssl-vpns-in-australia Website Keystroke Logging Many websites log every keystroke, not just data submitted in forms. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19825 keywords: dshield; siem; sonicwall; website; keystroke; logging

Duration: 00:06:39
SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 11th, 2025: BASE64 in DNS; Google Chrome, Ivantii and Sophos Patches; Apple Memory Integrity Feature (#)
Sep 11, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 11th, 2025: BASE64 in DNS; Google Chrome, Ivantii and Sophos Patches; Apple Memory Integrity Feature 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 may allow code execution. https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_9.html Ivanti Updates Ivanti patched a number of vulnerabilities, several of them critical, across its product portfolio. https://forums.ivanti.com/s/ar...

Duration: 00:07:12
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 10th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; (#)
Sep 09, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 10th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; 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/Microsoft%20Patch%20Tuesday%20September%202025/32270 Adobe Patches Adobe released patches for nine products, including Adobe Commerce, Coldfusion, and Acrobat. https://helpx.adobe.com/security/security-bulletin.html SAP Patches SAP patched vulnerabilities across its product portfolio. Particularly interesting are a few critical vulnerabilities in Netweaver, one...

Duration: 00:08:26
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 9th, 2025: Major npm compromise; HTTP Request Signature (#)
Sep 08, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 9th, 2025: Major npm compromise; HTTP Request Signature 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://github.com/chalk/chalk/issues/656#issuecomment-3266894253 https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised HTTP Request Signatures It looks like some search engines and AI bots are starting to use the HTTP request signature. This should make it easier to iden...

Duration: 00:08:44
SANS Stormcast Monday, September 8th, 2025: YARA to Debugger Offsets; SVG JavaScript Phishing; FreePBX Patches; (#)
Sep 07, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, September 8th, 2025: YARA to Debugger Offsets; SVG JavaScript Phishing; FreePBX Patches; 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 in SVG files. https://blog.virustotal.com/2025/09/uncovering-colombian-malware-campaign.html FreePBX Patches FreePBX released details regarding two vulnerabilities patched last week. One of these vulnerabilities was already actively exploited. https://github.com/FreePBX/security-reporting/security/advisories...

Duration: 00:05:35
SANS Stormcast Friday, September 5th, 2025: Cloudflare Response to 1.1.1.1 Certificate; AI Modem Namespace Reuse; macOS Vulnerability Allowed Keychain Decryption (#)
Sep 04, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, September 5th, 2025: Cloudflare Response to 1.1.1.1 Certificate; AI Modem Namespace Reuse; macOS Vulnerability Allowed Keychain Decryption 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 the original owner. https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/model-namespace-reuse/ macOS vulnerability allowed Keychain and iOS app decryption without a password Excessive entitlements for the gcore binary facilitated access to key material that was sufficient to access...

Duration: 00:08:19
SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 4th, 2025: Dassault DELMIA Apriso Exploit Attempts; Android Updates; 1.1.1.1 Certificate Issued (#)
Sep 03, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, September 4th, 2025: Dassault DELMIA Apriso Exploit Attempts; Android Updates; 1.1.1.1 Certificate Issued 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%20Apriso.%20CVE-2025-5086/32256 Android Bulletin Google released its September update, fixing two already-exploited privilege escalation flaws and some remote code execution issues. https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-09-01 Mis-issued Certificates for SAN iPAddress:1.1.1.1 by Fina...

Duration: 00:06:22
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025: Sextortiion Analysis; Covert Channel DNS/ICMP; Azure AD Secret Theft; Official FreePBX Patches (#)
Sep 02, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025: Sextortiion Analysis; Covert Channel DNS/ICMP; Azure AD Secret Theft; Official FreePBX Patches 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%20four%20years/32252 Azure AD Client Secret Leak Attackers are stealing Azure AD client secrets from websites that are leaving them exposed. https://www.resecurity.com/blog/article/azure-ad-client-secret-leak-the-keys-to-cloud Covert Channel via ICMP and DNS...

Duration: 00:05:30
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025: pdf-parser Patch; Salesloft Compromise; Velociraptor Abuse; NeuVector Default Password (#)
Sep 01, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025: pdf-parser Patch; Salesloft Compromise; Velociraptor Abuse; NeuVector Default Password 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 Workspace, and others have been compromised and heavily abused for additional compromise and large-scale data exfiltration from exposed services. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/data-theft-salesforce-instances-via-salesloft-drift Velociraptor incident response tool abused for remote...

Duration: 00:05:39
SANS Stormcast Friday, August 29th, 2025: Scans for ZIP Files; FreePBX 0-Day; Passwordstate Patch (#)
Aug 28, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, August 29th, 2025: Scans for ZIP Files; FreePBX 0-Day; Passwordstate Patch 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 FreePBX is currently being exploited. FreePBX offers mitigation advice and has also just released a “beta” patch. https://community.freepbx.org/t/security-advisory-please-lock-down-your-administrator-access/107203 Passwordstate Vulnerability Clickstudios patched an authentication bypass vulnerability in its password manager, Passwordstate. The vuln...

Duration: 00:05:46
SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 28th, 2025: Launching Shellcode; NX Compromise; Volt Typhoon Report (#)
Aug 28, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 28th, 2025: Launching Shellcode; NX Compromise; Volt Typhoon Report 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 the help of AI tools like Claude and Gemini to steal credentials from affected systems https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials/ Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors’ Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed the Global Espionage System Several law enforcement an...

Duration: 00:06:39
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, August 27th, 2025: Analyzing IDNs; Netscaler 0-Day Vuln; Git Vuln Exploited; (#)
Aug 26, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, August 27th, 2025: Analyzing IDNs; Netscaler 0-Day Vuln; Git Vuln Exploited; 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 Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-7775, CVE-2025-7776 and CVE-2025-8424 Citrix patched three vulnerabilities in Netscaler. One is already being exploited https://support.citrix.com/support-home/kbsearch/article?articleNumber=CTX694938&articleTitle=NetScaler_ADC_and_NetScaler_Gateway_Security_Bulletin...

Duration: 00:05:43
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, August 26th, 2025: Decoding Word Reading Location; Image Downscaling AI Vulnerability; IBM Jazz Team Server Vuln (#)
Aug 25, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, August 26th, 2025: Decoding Word Reading Location; Image Downscaling AI Vulnerability; IBM Jazz Team Server Vuln Reading Location Position Value in Microsoft Word Documents Jessy investigated how Word documents store the last visited document location in the registry. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Reading%20Location%20Position%20Value%20in%20Microsoft%20Word%20Documents/32224 Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems AI systems often downscale images before processing them. An attacker can create a harmless looking image that would reveal text after downscaling leading to prompt injection https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/ IBM Jazz Team Server Vulnerability  CVE-2025-36157 IBM patched a...

Duration: 00:05:01
SANS Stormcast Monday, August 25th, 2025: IP Cleanup; Linux Desktop Attacks; Malicious Go SSH Brute Forcer; Onmicrosoft Domain Restrictions (#)
Aug 24, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, August 25th, 2025: IP Cleanup; Linux Desktop Attacks; Malicious Go SSH Brute Forcer; Onmicrosoft Domain Restrictions The end of an era: Properly formatted IP addresses in all of our data. When initiall designing DShield, addresses were “zero padded”, an unfortunate choice. As of this week, datafeeds should no longer be “zero padded”. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/The%20end%20of%20an%20era%3A%20Properly%20formated%20IP%20addresses%20in%20all%20of%20our%20data./32228 .desktop files used in an attack against Linux Desktops Pakistani attackers are using .desktop files to target Indian Linux desktops. https://www.cyfirma.com/research/apt36-targets...

Duration: 00:06:04
SANS Stormcast Friday, August 22nd, 2025: The -n switch; Commvault Exploit; Docker Desktop Escape Vuln; (#)
Aug 22, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, August 22nd, 2025: The -n switch; Commvault Exploit; Docker Desktop Escape Vuln; Don't Forget The "-n" Command Line Switch Disabling reverse DNS lookups for IP addresses is important not just for performance, but also for opsec. Xavier is explaining some of the risks. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Don%27t%20Forget%20The%20%22-n%22%20Command%20Line%20Switch/32220 watchTowr releases details about recent Commvault flaws Users of the Commvault enterprise backup solution must patch now after watchTowr released details about recent vulnerabilities https://labs.watchtowr.com/guess-who-would-be-stupid-enough-to-rob-the-same-vault-twice-pre-auth-rce-chains-in-commvault/?123 Docker Desktop Vulnerability CVE-2025-9074 A vulnerability in Docker Desktop allows attackers to...

Duration: 00:06:52
SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 21st, 2025: Airtel Scans; Apple Patch; Microsoft Copilot Audit Log Issue; Password Manager Clickjacking (#)
Aug 21, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 21st, 2025: Airtel Scans; Apple Patch; Microsoft Copilot Audit Log Issue; Password Manager Clickjacking Airtel Router Scans and Mislabeled Usernames A quick summary of some odd usernames that show up in our honeypot logs https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Airtel%20Router%20Scans%2C%20and%20Mislabeled%20usernames/32216 Apple Patches 0-Day CVE-2025-43300 Apple released an update for iOS, iPadOS and MacOS today patching a single, already exploited, vulnerability in ImageIO. https://support.apple.com/en-us/124925 Microsoft Copilot Audit Logs A user retrieving data via copilot obscures the fact that the user may have had access to data in...

Duration: 00:06:52
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, August 20th, 2025: Increased Elasticsearch Scans; MSFT Patch Issues (#)
Aug 20, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, August 20th, 2025: Increased Elasticsearch Scans; MSFT Patch Issues Increased Elasticsearch Recognizance Scans Our honeypots noted an increase in reconnaissance scans for Elasticsearch. In particular, the endpoint /_cluster/settings is hit hard. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Increased%20Elasticsearch%20Recognizance%20Scans/32212 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Issues Microsoft noted some issues deploying the most recent patches with WSUS. There are also issues with certain SSDs if larger files are transferred. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-24h2#3635msgdesc https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/latest-windows-11-security-patch-might-be-breaking-ssds-under-heavy-workloads-users-report-disappearing-drives-following-file-transfers-including-some-that-cannot-be-recovered-after-a-reboot SAP Vulnerabilities Exploited CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999 Details explaining how to...

Duration: 00:06:08
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, August 19th, 2025: MFA Bombing; Cisco Firewall Management Vuln; F5 Access for Android Vuln; (#)
Aug 19, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, August 19th, 2025: MFA Bombing; Cisco Firewall Management Vuln; F5 Access for Android Vuln; Keeping an Eye on MFA Bombing Attacks Attackers will attempt to use authentication fatigue by “bombing” users with MFA authentication requests. Rob is talking in this diary about how to investigate these attacks in a Microsoft ecosystem. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Keeping+an+Eye+on+MFABombing+Attacks/32208 Critical Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software RADIUS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability An OS command injection vulnerability may be abused to gain access to the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/secu...

Duration: 00:05:11
SANS Stormcast Monday, August 18th, 2025: 5G Attack Framework; Plex Vulnerability; Fortiweb Exploit; Flowise Vuln (#)
Aug 17, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, August 18th, 2025: 5G Attack Framework; Plex Vulnerability; Fortiweb Exploit; Flowise Vuln SNI5GECT: Sniffing and Injecting 5G Traffic Without Rogue Base Stations Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design released a new framework, SNI5GECT, to passively sniff and inject traffic into 5G data streams, leading to DoS, downgrade and other attacks. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/SNI5GECT%3A%20Sniffing%20and%20Injecting%205G%20Traffic%20Without%20Rogue%20Base%20Stations/32202 Plex Vulnerability Plex patched a vulnerability in the Plex Media Server. Make sure you have updated to at least 1.42.1. https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server-security-update/928341 FortiWeb...

Duration: 00:05:43
SANS Stormcast Friday, August 15th, 2025: Analysing Attack with AI; Proxyware via YouTube; Xerox FreeFlow Vuln; Evaluating Zero Trust @SANS_edu (#)
Aug 14, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, August 15th, 2025: Analysing Attack with AI; Proxyware via YouTube; Xerox FreeFlow Vuln; Evaluating Zero Trust @SANS_edu AI and Faster Attack Analysis A few use cases for LLMs to speed up analysis https://isc.sans.edu/diary/AI%20and%20Faster%20Attack%20Analysis%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/32198 Proxyware Malware Being Distributed on YouTube Video Download Site Popular YouTube download sites will attempt to infect users with proxyware. https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/89574/ Xerox Freeflow Core Vulnerability Horizon3.ai discovered XXE Injection (CVE-2025-8355) and Path Traversal (CVE-2025-8356) vulnerabilities in Xerox FreeFlow Core, a print orchestration platform. These vulnerabilities a...

Duration: 00:15:12
SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 14th, 2025: Equation Editor; Kerberos Patch; XZ-Utils Backdoor; ForitSIEM/FortiWeb patches (#)
Aug 14, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 14th, 2025: Equation Editor; Kerberos Patch; XZ-Utils Backdoor; ForitSIEM/FortiWeb patches CVE-2017-11882 Will Never Die The (very) old equation editor vulnerability is still being exploited, as this recent sample analyzed by Xavier shows. The payload of the Excel file attempts to download and execute an infostealer to exfiltrate passwords via email. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/CVE-2017-11882%20Will%20Never%20Die/32196 Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Yesterday, Microsoft released a patch for a vulnerability that had already been made public. This vulnerability refers to the privilege escalation taking advantage of a path traversal issue in...

Duration: 00:07:16
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, August 13th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; libarchive vulnerability upgrade; Adobe Patches (#)
Aug 12, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, August 13th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; libarchive vulnerability upgrade; Adobe Patches Microsoft Patch Tuesday https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20August%202025%20Patch%20Tuesday/32192 https://cymulate.com/blog/zero-click-one-ntlm-microsoft-security-patch-bypass-cve-2025-50154/ libarchive Vulnerability A libarchive vulnerability patched in June was upgraded from a low CVSS score to a critical one. Libarchive is used by compression software across various operating systems, making this a difficult vulnerability to patch https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-25:07.libarchive.asc Adobe Patches Adobe released patches for 13 different products. https://helpx.adobe.com/security/Home.html keywords: adobe; libarchive; microsoft; patches;

Duration: 00:08:55
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, August 12th, 2025: Erlang OTP SSH Exploits (Palo Alto Networks); Winrar Exploits; Netscaler Exploits; OpenSSH Pushing PQ Crypto; (#)
Aug 11, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, August 12th, 2025: Erlang OTP SSH Exploits (Palo Alto Networks); Winrar Exploits; Netscaler Exploits; OpenSSH Pushing PQ Crypto; Erlang OTP SSH Exploits A recently patched and easily exploited vulnerability in Erlang/OTP SSH is being exploited. Palo Alto collected some of the details about this exploit activity that they observed. https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/erlang-otp-cve-2025-32433/ WinRAR Exploited WinRAR vulnerabilities are actively being exploited by a number of threat actors. The vulnerability allows for the creation of arbitrary files as the archive is extracted. https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/winrar-zero-day-under-active.html Citrix Netscaler Exploit Updates The Dutch Center for Cyber...

Duration: 00:06:52
SANS Stormcast Monday, August 11th, 2025: Fake Tesla Preorders; Bad USB Cameras; Win-DoS Epidemic (#)
Aug 10, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, August 11th, 2025: Fake Tesla Preorders; Bad USB Cameras; Win-DoS Epidemic Google Paid Ads for Fake Tesla Websites Someone is setting up fake Tesla lookalike websites that attempt to collect credit card data from unsuspecting users trying to preorder Tesla products. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Google%20Paid%20Ads%20for%20Fake%20Tesla%20Websites/32186 Compromising USB Devices for Persistent Stealthy Access USB devices, like Linux-based web cams, can be compromised to emulate malicious USB devices like keyboards that inject malicious commands. https://eclypsium.com/blog/badcam-now-weaponizing-linux-webcams/ Win-DoS Epidemic: A crash course in abusing RPC for Win-DoS & Win-DDoS Internet-exposed DCs...

Duration: 00:07:07
SANS Stormcast Friday, August 8th, 2025:: ASN43350 Mass Scans; HTTP1.1 Must Die; Hyprid Exchange Vuln; Sonicwall Update; SANS.edu Research: OSS Security and Shifting Left (#)
Aug 07, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, August 8th, 2025:: ASN43350 Mass Scans; HTTP1.1 Must Die; Hyprid Exchange Vuln; Sonicwall Update; SANS.edu Research: OSS Security and Shifting Left Mass Internet Scanning from ASN 43350 Our undergraduate intern Duncan Woosley wrote up aggressive scans from ASN 43350 https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Mass+Internet+Scanning+from+ASN+43350+Guest+Diary/32180/#comments HTTP/1.1 Desync Attacks Portswigger released details about new types of HTTP/1.1 desync attacks it uncovered. These attacks are particularly critical for organizations using middleboxes to translate from HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1 https://portswigger.net/research/http1-must-die Microsoft Warns of Exchange Server Vulnerability An attacker with admin access...

Duration: 00:23:59
SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 7th, 2025: Sextortion Update; Adobe and Trend Micro release emergency patches (#)
Aug 06, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday, August 7th, 2025: Sextortion Update; Adobe and Trend Micro release emergency patches Do Sextortion Scams Still Work in 2025? Jan looked at recent sextortion emails to check if any of the crypto addresses in these emails received deposits. Sadly, some did, so these scams still work. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Do%20sextortion%20scams%20still%20work%20in%202025%3F/32178 Akira Ransomware Group’s use of Drivers Guidepoint Security observed the Akira ransomware group using specific legitimate drivers for privilege escalation https://www.guidepointsecurity.com/blog/gritrep-akira-sonicwall/ Adobe Patches Critical Experience Manager Vulnerability Adobe released emergency patches for a vulnerability in Ad...

Duration: 00:05:07
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, August 6th, 2025: Machinekeys and VIEWSTATEs; Perplexity Unethical Learning; SonicWall Updates (#)
Aug 05, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, August 6th, 2025: Machinekeys and VIEWSTATEs; Perplexity Unethical Learning; SonicWall Updates Stealing Machinekeys for fun and profit (or riding the SharePoint wave) Bojan explains in detail how .NET uses Machine Keys to protect the VIEWSTATE, and how to abuse the VIEWSTATE for code execution if the Machine Keys are lost. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Stealing%20Machine%20Keys%20for%20fun%20and%20profit%20%28or%20riding%20the%20SharePoint%20wave%29/32174 Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity will change its User Agent, or use different originating IP addresses, if it detects being blocked from scanning websites...

Duration: 00:07:42
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, August 05, 2025: Daily Trends Report; NVidia Triton RCE; Cursor AI Misconfiguration (#)
Aug 04, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, August 05, 2025: Daily Trends Report; NVidia Triton RCE; Cursor AI Misconfiguration Daily Trends Report A new trends report will bring you daily data highlights via e-mail. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/New%20Feature%3A%20Daily%20Trends%20Report/32170 NVidia Triton RCE Wiz found an interesting information leakage vulnerability in NVidia’s Triton servers that can be leveraged to remote code execution. https://www.wiz.io/blog/nvidia-triton-cve-2025-23319-vuln-chain-to-ai-server Cursor AI MCP Vulnerability An attacker could abuse negligent Cursor MCP configurations to implement backdoors into developer machines. https://www.aim.security/lp/aim-labs-curxecute-blogpost keywords: cursor; mcp; nvidia; triton; rce; tr...

Duration: 00:06:48
SANS Stormcast Sunday, August 03, 2025: Legacy Protocols; Sonicwall SSL VPN Possible 0-Day; (#)
Aug 03, 2025

SANS Stormcast Sunday, August 03, 2025: Legacy Protocols; Sonicwall SSL VPN Possible 0-Day; Scans for pop3user with guessable password A particular IP assigned to a network that calls itself “Unmanaged” has been scanning telnet/ssh for a user called “pop3user” with passwords “pop3user” or “123456”. I assume they are looking for legacy systems that either currently run pop3 or ran pop3 in the past, and left the user enabled. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Legacy%20May%20Kill/32166 Possible Sonicwall SSL VPN 0-Day Arcticwolf observed compromised Sonicwall SSL VPN devices used by the Akira group to install ransomware. These devices were fully patched, a...

Duration: 00:05:18
SANS Stormcast Friday, August 1st, 2025: Scattered Spider Domains; Excel Blocking Dangerous Links; CISA Releasing Thorium Platform (#)
Jul 31, 2025

SANS Stormcast Friday, August 1st, 2025: Scattered Spider Domains; Excel Blocking Dangerous Links; CISA Releasing Thorium Platform Scattered Spider Related Domain Names A quick demo of our domain feeds and how they can be used to find Scattered Spider related domains https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Scattered+Spider+Related+Domain+Names/32162 Excel External Workbook Links to Blocked File Types Will Be Disabled by Default Excel will discontinue allowing links to dangerous file types starting as early as October. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/external-workbook-links-to-blocked-file-types-will-be-disabled-by-default-6dd12903-0592-463d-9e68-0741cf62ee58 CISA Releases Thorium CISA announced that it released...

Duration: 00:05:42
SANS Stormcast Thursday July 31st, 2025: Firebase Security; WebKit Vuln Exploited; Scattered Spider Update (#)
Jul 30, 2025

SANS Stormcast Thursday July 31st, 2025: Firebase Security; WebKit Vuln Exploited; Scattered Spider Update 
Securing Firebase: Lessons Re-Learned from the Tea Breach Inspried by the breach of the Tea app, Brendon Evans recorded a video to inform of Firebase security issues https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Securing%20Firebase%3A%20Lessons%20Re-Learned%20from%20the%20Tea%20Breach/32158 WebKit Vulnerability Exploited before Apple Patch A WebKit vulnerablity patched by Apple yesterday has already been exploited in Google Chrome. Google noted the exploit with its patch for the same vulnerability in Chrome. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6558 Scattered Spider Update CISA released an...

Duration: 00:06:40
SANS Stormcast Wednesday July 30th, 2025: Apple Updates; Python Triage; Papercut Vuln Exploited (#)
Jul 29, 2025

SANS Stormcast Wednesday July 30th, 2025: Apple Updates; Python Triage; Papercut Vuln Exploited Apple Updates Everything: July 2025 Edition Apple released updates for all of its operating systems patching 89 different vulnerabilities. Many vulnerabilities apply to multiple operating systems. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Updates%20Everything%3A%20July%202025/32154 Python Triage A quick python script by Xavier to efficiently search through files, even compressed once, for indicators of compromise. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Triage+is+Key+Python+to+the+Rescue/32152/ PaperCut Attacks CISA added a 2024 Papercut vulnerability to the known exploited vulnerability list. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/07/28/cisa-adds-three-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog keywords: papercut...

Duration: 00:06:45
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, July 29th, 2025:Parasitic Exploits; Cisco ISE Exploit; MyASUS Vuln (#)
Jul 28, 2025

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, July 29th, 2025:Parasitic Exploits; Cisco ISE Exploit; MyASUS Vuln Parasitic SharePoint Exploits We are seeing attacks against SharePoint itself and attempts to exploit backdoors left behind by attackers. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Parasitic%20Sharepoint%20Exploits/32148 Cisco ISE Vulnerability Exploited A recently patched vulnerability in Cisco ISE is now being exploited. The Zero Day Initiative has released a blog detailing the exploit chain to obtain code execution as an unauthenticated user. https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/7/24/cve-2025-20281-cisco-ise-api-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution-vulnerability MyAsus Vulnerablity The “MyAsus” tool does not store its access tokens correctly, potentially providing an attacker with access to s...

Duration: 00:05:35
SANS Stormcast Monday, July 28th, 2025: Linux Namespaces; UI Automation Abuse; Autoswagger (#)
Jul 27, 2025

SANS Stormcast Monday, July 28th, 2025: Linux Namespaces; UI Automation Abuse; Autoswagger Linux Namespaces Linux namespaces can be used to control networking features on a process-by-process basis. This is useful when trying to present a different network environment to a process being analysed. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Sinkholing%20Suspicious%20Scripts%20or%20Executables%20on%20Linux/32144 Coyote in the Wild: First-Ever Malware That Abuses UI Automation Akamai identified malware that takes advantage of Microsoft’s UI Automation Framework to programatically interact with the user’s system and steal credentials. https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/active-exploitation-coyote-malware-first-ui-automation-abuse-in-the-wild Testing REST APIs with Autoswagger The tool...

Duration: 00:05:39