Internet Storm Centre Podcast

SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast (Stormcast) 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 minute 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 Stormcenter. You may submit questions and comments via our contact form at https://isc.sans.edu/contact.html .

  • SANS Stormcast Friday, November 14th, 2025: SmartApeSG and ClickFix; Formbook Obfuscation Tricks; Sudo-rs Vulnerabilities; SANS Holiday Hack Challenge
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 14, 2025 at 1:18 am

    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 an advantage when it comes to memory safety, there are plenty of other vulnerabilities to worry about https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7867-1 https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-c978-wq47-pvvw?ref=itsfoss.com SANS Holiday Hack Challenge https://sans.org/HolidayHack

  • SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 13th, 2025: OWASP Top 10 Update; Cisco/Citrix Exploits; Test post quantum readiness
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 13, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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/

  • SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 12th, 2025: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; Gladinet Triofox Vulnerability; SAP Patches
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 12, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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/Security-Advisory-EPM-November-2025-for-EPM-2024?language=en_US

  • SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 11th, 2025: 3CX Related Scans; Watchguard Default Password;
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 11, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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-2025-59396 JavaScript expr-eval Vulnerability The JavaScript expr-eval library was vulnerable to a code execution issue. https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/263614

  • SANS Stormcast Monday, November 10th, 2025: Code Repo Requests; Time Delayed ICS Attacks; Encrypted LLM Traffic Sidechannel Attacks
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 10, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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 prompts sent by a user based on the amount and structure of the encrypted data. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/11/07/whisper-leak-a-novel-side-channel-cyberattack-on-remote-language-models/

  • SANS Stormcast Friday, November 7th, 2025: PowerShell Log Correlation; RondoBox Disected; Google Chrome and Cisco Patches
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 7, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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.googleblog.com/2025/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Cisco patched two critical vulnerabilities in its Contact Center Express software. These vulnerabilities may lead to a full system compromise. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cc-unauth-rce-QeN8h7mQ

  • SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 6th, 2025: Domain API Update; Teams Spoofing; VShell Report
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 6, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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 detection ideas. https://www.nviso.eu/blog/nviso-analyzes-vshell-post-exploitation-tool

  • SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 5th, 2025: Apple Patches; Exploits against Trucking and Logistic; Google Android Patches
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 5, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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

  • SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 4th, 2025: XWiki SolrSearch Exploits and Rapper Feud; AMD Zen 5 RDSEED Bug; More Malicious Open VSX Extensions
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 4, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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 Cursor through Open VSX Yet another Open VSX extension stealing crypto credentials https://secureannex.com/blog/sleepyduck-malware/

  • SANS Stormcast Monday, November 3rd, 2025: Port 8530/8531 Scans; BADCANDY Webshells; Open VSX Security Improvements
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on November 3, 2025 at 2:35 am

    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 implant for persistent access https://www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/view-all-content/alerts-and-advisories/badcandy Improvements to Open VSX Security In reference to the Glassworm incident, OpenVSX published a blog post outlining some of the security improvements they will make to prevent a repeat of this incident. https://blogs.eclipse.org/post/mika l-barbero/open-vsx-security-update-october-2025

  • SANS Stormcast Friday, October 31st, 2025: Bug Bounty Headers; Exchange hardening; MOVEIt vulnerability
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 31, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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.me/blog/introducing-breach-observatory Microsoft Exchange Server Security Best Practices A new document published by a collaboration of national cyber security agencies summarizes steps that should be taken to harden Exchange Server. https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/75/documents/resources/cybersecurity-professionals/CSI_Microsoft_Exchange_Server_Security_Best_Practices.pdf?ver=9mpKKyUrwfpb9b9r4drVMg%3d%3d MOVEit Vulnerability Progress published an advisory for its file transfer program MOVEIt . This software has had heavily exploited vulnerabilities in the past. https://community.progress.com/s/article/MOVEit-Transfer-Vulnerability-CVE-2025-10932-October-29-2025

  • SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 30th, 2025: Memory Only Filesystems Forensics; Azure Outage; docker-compose patch
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 30, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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 the docker-compose directory https://github.com/docker/compose/security/advisories/GHSA-gv8h-7v7w-r22q

  • SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 29th, 2025: Invisible Subject Character Phishing; Tomcat PUT Vuln; BIND9 Spoofing Vuln PoC
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 29, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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 code execution. https://lists.apache.org/thread/n05kjcwyj1s45ovs8ll1qrrojhfb1tog BIND9 DNS Spoofing Vulnerability A PoC exploit is now available for the recently patched BIND9 spoofing vulnerability https://gist.github.com/N3mes1s/f76b4a606308937b0806a5256bc1f918

  • SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 28th, 2025: Bytes over DNS; Unifi Access Vuln; OpenAI Atlas Prompt Injection
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 28, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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/openai-atlas-omnibox-prompt-injection

  • SANS Stormcast Monday, October 27th, 2025: Bilingual Phishing; Kaitai Struct WebIDE
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 27, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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 use simple-to-exploit network security device vulnerabilities to compromise organizations. https://www.csoonline.com/article/4074945/network-security-devices-endanger-orgs-with-90s-era-flaws.html

  • SANS Stormcast Friday, October 24th, 2025: Android Infostealer; SessionReaper Exploited; BIND/unbound DNS Spoofing fix; WSUS Exploit
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 24, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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 Consortium (ISC.org), as well as the Unbound project, patched a flaw that may allow for DNS spoofing due to a weak random number generator. https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40780 WSUS Exploit Released CVE-2025-59287 Hawktrace released a walk through showing how to exploit the recently patched WSUS vulnerability https://hawktrace.com/blog/CVE-2025-59287

  • SANS Stormcast Thursday, October 23rd, 2025: Blue Angle Software Exploit; Oracle CPU; Rust tar library vulnerability.
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 23, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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#AppendixEBS Rust TAR Library Vulnerability A vulnerability in the popular, but no longer maintained, async-tar vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution https://edera.dev/stories/tarmageddon

  • SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025: NTP Pool; Xubuntu Compromise; Squid Vulnerability; Lanscope Vuln;
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 22, 2025 at 2:00 am

    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/en/jp/JVN86318557/index.html

  • SANS Stormcast Tuesday, October 21st, 2025: Syscall() Obfuscation; AWS down; Beijing Time Attack
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 20, 2025 at 10:45 pm

    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

  • SANS Stormcast Monday, October 20th, 2025: Malicious Tiktok; More Google Ad Problems; Satellite Insecurity
    by Dr. Johannes B. Ullrich on October 19, 2025 at 7:45 pm

    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.ucsd.edu

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