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SANS Stormcast: Daily Cyber Security News

Johannes Ullrich

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 .

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6:10

SANS Stormcast June, Tuesday, June 10th, 2025:...

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2025/06/10

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

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5:01

SANS Stormcast Friday, June 6th, 2025: Fake Zoom...

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2025/06/06

Be Careful With Fake Zoom Client Downloads Miscreants are tricking victims into downloading fake Zoom clients (and likely other meeting software) by first sending them fake meeting invites that direct victims to a page that offers malware for download as an update to the Zoom client.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Be%20Careful%20With%20Fake%20Zoom%20Client%20Downloads/32014 Python tarfile Vulnerability Recently, the Python tarfile module introduced a filter option to help mitigate some of the

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7:25

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, June 4th, 2025: vBulletin...

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2025/06/04

vBulletin Exploits CVE-2025-48827, CVE-2025-48828 We do see exploit attempts for the vBulletin flaw disclosed about a week ago. The flaw is only exploitable if vBulltin is run on PHP 8.1, and was patched over a year ago. However, vBulltin never disclosed the type of vulnerability that was patched.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/vBulletin%20Exploits%20%28CVE-2025-48827%2C%20CVE-2025-48828%29/32006 Google Chrome 0-Day Patched Google released a security update for Google Chrome patching three flaws. One of

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6:07

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025: Windows SSH...

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2025/06/03

Simple SSH Backdoor Xavier came across a simple SSH backdoor taking advantage of the ssh client preinstalled on recent Windows systems. The backdoor is implemented via an SSH configuration file that instructs the SSH client to connect to a remote system and forward a shell on a random port. This will make the shell accessible to anybody able to connect to the C2 host. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Simple%20SSH%20Backdoor/32000 Google Chrome to Distrust CAs Google Chrome will remove the Chunghwa

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13:47

SANS Stormcast Friday, May 30th 2025: Alternate Data...

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2025/05/30

Alternate Data Streams: Adversary Defense Evasion and Detection Good Primer of alternate data streams and how they are abused, as well as how to detect and defend against ADS abuse.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Alternate%20Data%20Streams%20%3F%20Adversary%20Defense%20Evasion%20and%20Detection%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/31990 Connectwise Breach Affects ScreenConnect Customers Connectwise s ScreenConnect solution was compromised, leading to attacks against a small number of customers. This is yet another

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6:11

SANS Stormcast Thursday May 29th 2025: LLM Assisted...

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2025/05/29

Exploring a Use Case of Artificial Intelligence Assistance with Understanding an Attack Jennifer Wilson took a weird string found in a recent honeypot sample and worked with ChatGPT to figure out what it is all about.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Exploring%20a%20Use%20Case%20of%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20Assistance%20with%20Understanding%20an%20Attack/31980 Ransomware Deployed via SimpleHelp Vulnerabilities Ransomware actors are using vulnerabilities in SimpleHelp to gain

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6:22

SANS Stormcast Thursday, May 22nd 2025: Crypto...

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2025/05/22

New Variant of Crypto Confidence Scam Scammers are offering login credentials for what appears to be high value crypto coin accounts. However, the goal is to trick users into paying for expensive VIP memberships to withdraw the money.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/New%20Variant%20of%20Crypto%20Confidence%20Scam/31968 Malicious Chrome Extensions Malicious Chrome extensions mimick popular services like VPNs to trick users into installing them. Once installed, the extensions will exfiltrate browser

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6:27

SANS Stormcast Friday, May 16th: Increase in...

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2025/05/16

Web Scanning SonicWall for CVE-2021-20016 - Update Scans for SonicWall increased by an order of magnitude over the last couple of weeks. Many of the attacks appear to originate from Global Host , a low-cost virtual hosting provider.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Web%20Scanning%20SonicWall%20for%20CVE-2021-20016%20-%20Update/31952 Google Update Patches Exploited Chrome Flaw Google released an update for Chrome. The update fixes two specific flaws reported by external researchers, CVE-2025-4664 and

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6:16

SANS Stormcast Thursday, May 15th: Google Open...

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2025/05/15

Another day, another phishing campaign abusing google.com open redirects Google s links from it s maps page to hotel listings do suffer from an open redirect vulnerability that is actively exploited to direct users to phishing pages.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Another%20day%2C%20another%20phishing%20campaign%20abusing%20google.com%20open%20redirects/31950 Adobe Patches Adobe patched 12 different applications. Of particular interest is the update to ColdFusion, which fixes several arbitrary code

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6:39

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, May 14th: Microsoft Patch...

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2025/05/14

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft patched 70-78 vulnerabilities (depending on how you count them). Five of these vulnerabilities are already being exploited. In particular, a remote code execution vulnerability in the scripting engine should be taken seriously. It requires the Microsoft Edge browser to run in Internet Explorer mode.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20Patch%20Tuesday%3A%20May%202025/31946 Security Advisory Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) May 2025 (CVE-2025-4427 and

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6:30

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, May 12th: Apple Patches;...

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2025/05/13

Apple Updates Everything Apple patched all of its operating systems. This update ports a patch for a recently exploited vulnerability to older versions of iOS and macOS.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/31942 It Is 2025, And We Are Still Dealing With Default IoT Passwords And Stupid 2013 Router Vulnerabilities Versions of the Mirai botnet are attacking devices made by Unipi Technology. These devices are using a specific username and password combination. In addition, this version of the Mirai botnet

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6:39

SANS Stormcast Monday, May 11th: Steganography...

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2025/05/12

Steganography Challenge Didier revealed the solution to last weekend s cryptography challenge. The image used the same encoding scheme as Didier described before, but the columns and rows were transposed.https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Steganography%20Challenge%3A%20My%20Solution/31912/ FBI Warns of End-of-life routers The FBI is tracking larger botnets taking advantage of unpatched routers. Many of these routers are end-of-life, and no patches are available for the exploited vulnerabilities

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6:45

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, May 7th: Infostealer with...

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2025/05/07

Python InfoStealer with Embedded Phishing Webserver Didier found an interesting infostealer that, in addition to implementing typical infostealer functionality, includes a web server suitable to create local phishing sites.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Python%20InfoStealer%20with%20Embedded%20Phishing%20Webserver/31924 Android Update Fixes Freetype 0-Day Google released its monthly Android update. As part of the update, it patched a vulnerability in Freetype that is already being exploited. Android

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6:57

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, May 6th: Mirai Exploiting...

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2025/05/06

Mirai Now Exploits Samsung MagicINFO CMS CVE-2024-7399 The Mirai botnet added a new vulnerability to its arsenal. This vulnerability, a file upload and remote code execution vulnerability in Samsung s MagicInfo 9 CMS, was patched last August but attracted new attention last week after being mostly ignored so far.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Mirai+Now+Exploits+Samsung+MagicINFO+CMS+CVE20247399/31920 New Kali Linux Signing Key The Kali Linux maintainers lost access to the secret key used to sign

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5:57

SANS Stormcast Monday, May 5th: Steganography...

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2025/05/05

Steganography Challenge Didier published a fun steganography challenge. A solution will be offered on Saturday.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Steganography+Challenge/31910 Microsoft Makes Passkeys Default Authentication Method Microsoft is now encouraging new users to use Passkeys as the default and only login method, further moving away from passwordshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/05/01/pushing-passkeys-forward-microsofts-latest-updates-for-simpler-safer-sign-ins/ Microsoft

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7:16

SANS Stormcast Thursday, May 1st: More Steganography;...

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2025/05/02

Steganography Analysis With pngdump.py: Bitstreams More details from Didiear as to how to extract binary content hidden inside imageshttps://isc.sans.edu/diary/Steganography%20Analysis%20With%20pngdump.py%3A%20Bitstreams/31904 Using Trusted Protocols Against You: Gmail as a C2 Mechanism Attackers are using typosquatting to trick developers into installing malicious python packages. These python packages will use GMail as a command and control channel by sending email to hard coded GMail

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6:29

SANS Stormcast Thursday, May 1st: Sonicwall Attacks;...

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2025/05/01

Web Scanning for Sonicwall Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-20016 For the last week, scans for Sonicwall API login and domain endpoints have skyrocketed. These attacks may be exploiting an older vulnerability or just attempting to brute force credentials.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Web%20Scanning%20Sonicwall%20for%20CVE-2021-20016/31906 The Wizards APT Group SLAAC Spoofing Adversary in the Middle Attacks ESET published an article with details regarding an IPv6-linked attack they have observed

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6:38

SANS Stormcast Friday, April 25th: SMS Gateway Scans;...

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2025/04/25

Attacks against Teltonika Networks SMS Gateways Attackers are actively scanning for SMS Gateways. These attacks take advantage of default passwords and other commonly used passwords. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Attacks%20against%20Teltonika%20Networks%20SMS%20Gateways/31888 Commvault Vulnerability CVE-2205-34028 Commvault, about a week ago, published an advisory and a fix for a vulnerability in its backup software. watchTowr now released a detailed writeup and exploit for the

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5:45

SANS Stormcast Thursday, April 24th: Honeypot...

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2025/04/24

Honeypot Iptables Maintenance and DShield-SIEM Logging In this diary, Jesse is talking about some of the tasks to maintain a honeypot, like keeping filebeats up to date and adjusting configurations in case your dynamic IP address changeshttps://isc.sans.edu/diary/Honeypot%20Iptables%20Maintenance%20and%20DShield-SIEM%20Logging/31876 XRPL.js Compromised An unknown actor was able to push malicious updates of the XRPL.js library to NPM. The library is officially recommended for writing Riple (RPL)

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6:18

SANS Stormcast Wednesday, April 23rd: More xorsearch...

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2025/04/23

xorsearch.py: Ad Hoc YARA Rules Adhoc YARA rules allow for easy searches using command line arguments without having to write complete YARA rules for simple use cases like string and regex searcheshttps://isc.sans.edu/diary/xorsearch.py%3A%20%22Ad%20Hoc%20YARA%20Rules%22/31856 Google Spoofed via DKIM Replay Attack DKIM replay attacks are a known issue where the attacker re-uses a prior DKIM signature. This will work as long as the headers signed by the signature are unchanged. Recently, this

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