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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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6:15

SANS Stormcast Wednesday Mar 26th: XWiki Exploit;...

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2025/03/26

XWiki Search Vulnerablity Exploit Attempts (CVE-2024-3721) Our honeypot detected an increase in exploit attempts for an XWiki command injection vulnerablity. The vulnerability was patched last April, but appears to be exploited more these last couple days. The vulnerability affects the search feature and allows the attacker to inject Groovy code templates.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/X-Wiki%20Search%20Vulnerability%20exploit%20attempts%20%28CVE-2024-3721%29/31800 Correction: FBI Image Converter

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5:55

SANS Stormcast Tuesday Mar 25th: Privacy Awware Bots;...

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2025/03/25

Privacy Aware Bots A botnet is using privacy as well as CSRF prevention headers to better blend in with normal browsers. However, in the process they may make it actually easier to spot them.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Privacy%20Aware%20Bots/31796 Critical Ingress Nightmare Vulnerability ingress-nginx fixed four new vulnerabilities, one of which may lead to a Kubernetes cluster compromise. Note that at the time I am making this live, not all of the URLs below are available yet, but I hope they

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7:10

SANS Stormcast Monday Mar 24th: Critical Next.js...

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2025/03/24

Critical Next.js Vulnerability CVE-2025-29927 A critical vulnerability in how the x-middleware-subrequest header is verified may lead to bypassing authorization in Next.js applications.https://zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and-things/nextjs-and-the-corrupt-middlewarehttps://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-f82v-jwr5-mffwhttps://www.runzero.com/blog/next-js/ Microsoft Trust Signing Service Abused Attackers abut the Microsoft Trust Signing Service, a service meant to help

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8:25

SANS Stormcast Friday Mar 21st: New Data Feeds; SEO...

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2025/03/21

Some New Data Feeds and Little Incident We started offering additional data feeds, and an SEO spamer attempted to make us change a link from an old podcast episode.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Some%20new%20Data%20Feeds%2C%20and%20a%20little%20%22incident%22./31786 Veeam Deserialization Vulnerability Veeam released details regarding the latest vulnerablity in Veeam, pointing out the insufficient patch applied to a prior deserialization

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7:09

SANS Stormcast Thursday Mar 20th: Cisco Smart...

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2025/03/20

Exploit Attempts for Cisco Smart Licensing Utility CVE-2024-20439 CVE-2024-20440 Attackers added last September's Cisco Smart Licensing Utility vulnerability to their toolset. These attacks orginate most likely from botnets and the same attackers are scanning for a wide range of additional vulnerabilities. The vulnerability is a static credential issue and trivial to exploit after the credentials were published last

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13:53

SANS Stormcast Friday Mar 7th: Chrome vs Extensions;...

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2025/03/07

Latest Google Chrome Update Encourages UBlock Origin Removal The latest update to Google Chrome not only disabled the UBlock Origin ad blocker, but also guides users to uninstall the extension instead of re-enabling it.https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlhttps://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1j2ec76/ublock_origin_is_gone/ Critical Kibana Update Elastic published a critical Kibana update patching a prototype polution vulnerability that would

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7:09

SANS Stormcast Monday Mar 3rd: AI Training Data...

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2025/03/03

Common Crawl includes Common Leaks The "Common Crawl" dataset, a large dataset created by spidering website, contains as expected many API keys and other secrets. This data is often used to train large language modelshttps://trufflesecurity.com/blog/research-finds-12-000-live-api-keys-and-passwords-in-deepseek-s-training-data Github Repositories Exposed by Copilot As it is well known, Github's Copilot is using data from public GitHub repositories to train it's model. However, it appears that

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6:46

SANS Stormcast Thursday Feb 27th: High Exfil Ports;...

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2025/02/27

Attacker of of Ephemeral Ports Attackers often use ephermeral ports to reach out to download additional resources or exfiltrate data. This can be used, with care, to detect possible compromises.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Malware%20Source%20Servers%3A%20The%20Threat%20of%20Attackers%20Using%20Ephemeral%20Ports%20as%20Service%20Ports%20to%20Upload%20Data/31710 Compromised Visal Studio Code Extension downloaded by Millions Amit Assaraf identified a likely compromised Visual

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5:59

SANS Stormcast Wednesday Feb 26th: M365 Infostealer...

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2025/02/26

Massive Botnet Targets M365 with Password Spraying A large botnet is targeting service accounts in M365 with credentials stolen by infostealer malware.https://securityscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MassiveBotnet-Report_022125_03.pdf Mixing up Public and Private Keys in OpenID The complex OpenID specificiation and the flexibility it supports enables careless administrators to publich private keys instead or in addition to public

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7:02

SANS Stormcast Wednesday Feb 20th: XWorm Cocktail;...

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2025/02/20

XWorm Cocktail: A Mix of PE data with PowerShell Code Quick analysis of an interesting XWrom sample with powershell code embedded inside an executablehttps://isc.sans.edu/diary/XWorm+Cocktail+A+Mix+of+PE+data+with+PowerShell+Code/31700 Microsoft's Majorana 1 Chip Carves New Path for Quantum Computing Microsoft announced a breack through in Quantum computing. Its new prototype Majorana 1 chip takes advantage of exotic majorana particles to implement a scalable low error rate solution to building

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6:55

SANS Stormcast Tuesday Feb 19th: ModelScan AI Model...

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2025/02/19

ModelScan: Protection Against Model Serialization Attacks ModelScan is a tool to inspect AI models for deserialization attacks. The tool will detect suspect commands and warn the user.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/ModelScan%20-%20Protection%20Against%20Model%20Serialization%20Attacks/31692 OpenSSH MitM and DoS Vulnerabilities OpenSSH Patched two vulnerabilities discovered by Qualys. One may be used for MitM attack in specfic configurations of

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4:39

SANS Stormcast: Securing the Edge; PostgreSQL...

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2025/02/18

My Very Personal Guidance and Strategies to Protect Network Edge Devices A quick summary to help you secure edge devices. This may be a bit opinionated, but these are the strategies that I find work and are actionable.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/My%20Very%20Personal%20Guidance%20and%20Strategies%20to%20Protect%20Network%20Edge%20Devices/31660 PostgreSQL SQL Injection A followup to yesterday's segment about the PostgreSQL vulnerability. Rapid7 released a Metasploit module to exploit the

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8:33

SANS Stormcast Monday Feb 17th: Fake BSOD; Volatile...

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2025/02/17

Fake BSOD Delivered by Malicious Python Script Xavier found an odd malicious Python script that displays a blue screen of death to users. The purpose isn't quite clear. It could be a teach support scam tricking users into calling the 800 number displayed, or a simple anti-reversing trickhttps://isc.sans.edu/diary/Fake%20BSOD%20Delivered%20by%20Malicious%20Python%20Script/31686 The Danger of IP Volatility Accounting for IP addresses is important, and if not done properly, may lead to resources

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6:02

SANS Stormcast Feb 14th 2025: DShield Honeypot SIEM;...

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2025/02/14

DShield SIEM Docker Updates Interested in learning more about the attacks hitting your honeypot? Guy assembled a neat SIEM to create dashboards summarizing the attacks.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/DShield%20SIEM%20Docker%20Updates/31680 PANOS Path Confusion Auth Bypass Palo Alto Networks fixed a path confusion vulnerability introduced by the overly complex midle box chain in

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5:59

SANS Stormcast Feb 13th 2025: Smart City Threats;...

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2025/02/13

An Ontology for Threats: Cybercrime and Digital Forensic Investigation on Smart City Infrastructure Smart cities is a big topic for many local governments. With building these complex systems, attacks will follow. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/An%20ontology%20for%20threats%2C%20cybercrime%20and%20digital%20forensic%20investigation%20on%20Smart%20City%20Infrastructure/31676 North Korean state actor tricking admins into executing PowerShell North Korean state actors are spending quite a bit of effort

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5:54

SANS Stormcast Feb 12th 2025: MSFT Patch Tuesday;...

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2025/02/12

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft released patches for 55 vulnerabilities. Three of them are actagorized as critical, two are already exploited and another two have been publicly disclosed. The LDAP server vulnerability could become a huge deal, but it is not clear if an exploit will appear.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20February%202025%20Patch%20Tuesday/31674 Adobe Patches Adobe released patches for seven products. Watch out in particular for the Adobe Commerce

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7:16

SANS Stormcast Feb 11th 2025: 7zip and MoW; Apple...

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2025/02/11

Reminder: 7-Zip MoW The MoW must be added to any files extracted from ZIP or other compound file formats. 7-Zip does not do so by default unless you alter the default configuration.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Reminder%3A%207-Zip%20%26%20MoW/31668 Apple Fixes 0-Day Apple released updates to iOS and iPadOS fixing a bypass for USB Restricted Mode. The vulnerability is already being exploited.https://support.apple.com/en-us/122174 AMD ZEN CPU Microcode Update An attacker is able to replace microcode

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6:52

SANS Internet Stormcast Feb 10th 2025: Podcast...

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2025/02/10

SSL 2.0 Turns 30 This Sunday SSL was created in February 1995. However, back in 2005, only a year later, SSL 3.0 was released, and as of 2011, SSL 2.0 was deprecated, and support was removed from many crypto libraries. However, over 400k hosts are still exposed via SSL 2.0.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/SSL%202.0%20turns%2030%20this%20Sunday...%20Perhaps%20the%20time%20has%20come%20to%20let%20it%20die%3F/31664 Deepseek News Many articles cover various security shortcomings in the Chinese Deepseek AI

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7:03

SANS Internet Stormcast Feb 6th 2025: com- prefix...

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2025/02/06

Phishing via com- prefix domains Every day, attackers are registering a few hunder domain names starting with com-. These are used in phishing e-mails, like for example "toll fee scams", to create more convincing phishing links.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Phishing%20via%20%22com-%22%20prefix%20domains/31654 Microsoft Windows 10 Extended Security Updates Microsoft released pricing and additional details for the Windows 10 extended security updates. For the first year after official free updates

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7:22

SANS ISC Stormcast Feb 5ht 2025: Feed Updates and...

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2025/02/05

Some Updates to Our Data Feeds We made some updates to the documentation for our data feeds, and added the neat Rosti Feed to our list as well as to our ipinfo page.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Some%20updates%20to%20our%20data%20feeds/31650 8 Million Request Later We Meade the Solarwindws Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur While the title is a bit of watchTowr hyperbole, the problem of resurrecting dead S3 buckets back to live is real and needs to be addressed. Boring solutions will help not becoming

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