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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. htt...

Building Better Defenses: RedTail Observations Defending against attacks like RedTail is more then blocking IoCs, but instead one must focus on the techniques and tactics attackers use. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Guest+Diary+Building+Better+Defenses+RedTail+Observations+from+a+Honeypot/32312 Sonicwall: It wasn t the user s fault Sonicwall admits to a breach resulting in the loss of user configurat...

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/...

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.c...

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-...

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...

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 Ju...

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 o...

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 critica...

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/Incr...

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 la...

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 an...

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 Vulnerabil...

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 har...

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...

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 vulner...

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/supp...

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 showi...

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 repositorie...

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/wi...

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 th...

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-advisori...

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....

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%202025/32...

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-326689...