SANS Internet Storm Center's Daily Network Security News Podcast

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 Wide...

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 atta...

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 tric...

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 Targ...

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%5...

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://ww...

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-privileg...

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/%5BG...

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%20d...

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...

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%...

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 Cisc...

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/d...

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%20D...

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...

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 M...

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/...

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, Micros...

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 S1ngulari...

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,...

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 Salesf...

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 n...

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...

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. htt...

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
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