Best Environmental Data Services Ends Podcasts (2025)

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SANS Stormcast Friday, May 16th: Increase in Sonicwall Scans; RVTools Compromised?; RountPress 6:26

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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…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, May 15th: Google Open Redirects; Adobe, Ivanti, and Samsung patches 6:16

3d ago6:16

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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%20redirect…

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Whose law is it anyway? Deep dive as Planning Bill comes under pressure 43:07

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, ENDS journalists are joined by RSK Wilding's legal counsel Alexa Culver as they breakdown the consequences of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and make sense of …

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, May 14th: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; 0-Days patched for Ivanti Endpoint Manager and Fortinet Products 6:38

4d ago6:38

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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.san…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, May 12th: Apple Patches; Unipi Technologies Scans; 6:29

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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 d…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, May 11th: Steganography Challenge; End-of-Life Routers; ASUS Driverhub; RV-Tools SEO Poisoning 6:39

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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…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, May 9th: SSH Exfil Tricks; magicINFO still vulnerable; SentinelOne Vulnerability; Commvault insufficient patch 4:57

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No Internet Access: SSH to the Rescue If faced with restrictive outbound network access policies, a single inbound SSH connection can quickly be turned into a tunnel or a full-blown VPN https://isc.sans.edu/diary/No%20Internet%20Access%3F%20SSH%20to%20the%20Rescue!/31932 SAMSUNG magicINFO 9 Server Flaw Still exploitable The SAMSUNG magicINFO 9 Serv…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, May 8th: Modular Malware; Sysaid Vuln; Cisco Wireless Controller Patch; Unifi Protect Camera Patch 5:41

10d ago5:41

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Example of Modular Malware Xavier analyzes modular malware that downloads DLLs from GitHub if specific features are required. In particular, the webcam module is inspected in detail. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Example%20of%20%22Modular%22%20Malware/31928 Sysaid XXE Vulnerabilities IT Service Management Software Sysaid patched a number of XXE vulner…

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Farage declares war on ‘woke’ climate jobs, puffins party as sandeels saved 20:21

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, ENDS journalists discuss: The fall out of the local elections and Nigel Farage and Reform UK's plans for net zero. A landmark victory for sandeels as environmentalis…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, May 7th: Infostealer with Webserver; Android Update; CISA Warning 6:44

11d ago6:44

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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…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, May 6th: Mirai Exploiting Samsung magicInfo 9; Kali Signing Key Lost; 6:57

13d ago6:57

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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+No…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, May 5th: Steganography Challenge; Microsoft Makes Passkeys Default and Moves Away from Authenticator as Password Manager; Magento Components Backdoored. 5:57

14d ago5:57

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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 password…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, May 2nd: More Steganography; Malicious Python Packages GMail C2; BEC to Steal Rent Payments 7:16

16d ago7:16

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Steganography Analysis With pngdump.py: Bitstreams More details from Didiear as to how to extract binary content hidden inside images https://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 in…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, May 1st: Sonicwall Attacks; Cached Windows RDP Credentials 6:28

17d ago6:28

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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 Gro…

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Natural England chief's 'epic misunderstanding' and historic landfill headache 18:41

19d ago18:41

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, ENDS journalists discuss: The accusations levelled against Natural England chief executive Marian Spain who has been described as having an “epic misunderstanding” o…

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Episode 20 - David M. Brear Global CEO, 11: FS 40:35

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In this episode of Banking on Innovation, David M. Brear, CEO of 11:FS, joins Jody Bhagat, President of Global Banking at Personetics, to share his bold vision for the future of banking. As customers demand more personalized, value-driven engagement, banks must move beyond product promotions to deliver intelligent, contextual experiences. This conv…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, April 30th: SMS Attacks; Apple Airplay Vulnerabilities 8:51

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More Scans for SMS Gateways and APIs Attackers are not just looking for SMS Gateways like the scans we reported on last week, but they are also actively scanning for other ways to use APIs and add on tools to send messages using other people s credentials. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/More%20Scans%20for%20SMS%20Gateways%20and%20APIs/31902 AirBorne: A…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, April 29th: SRUM-DUMP 3; Policy Puppetry; Choice Jacking; @sansinstitute at #RSAC 7:37

19d ago7:37

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SRUM-DUMP Version 3: Uncovering Malware Activity in Forensics Mark Baggett released SRUM-DUMP Version 3. The tool simplifies data extraction from Widnows System Resource Usage Monitor (SRUM). This database logs how much resources software used for 30 days, and is invaluable to find out what software was executed when and if it sent or received netw…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, April 28th: Image Steganography; SAP Netweaver Exploited 7:55

20d ago7:55

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Example of a Payload Delivered Through Steganography Xavier and Didier published two diaries this weekend, building on each other. First, Xavier showed an example of an image being used to smuggle an executable past network defenses, and second, Didier showed how to use his tools to extract the binary. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Example%20of%20a%20…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, April 25th: SMS Gateway Scans; Comvault Exploit; Patch Window Shrinkage; More inetpub issues; 6:38

23d ago6:38

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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, publishe…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, April 24th: Honeypot iptables Maintenance; XRPL.js Compromise; Erlang/OTP SSH Vuln affecting Cisco 5:44

25d ago5:44

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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 changes https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Honeypot%20Iptables%20Maintenance%20and%20DShield-SIEM%20Logging/31876 XRPL.js Compro…

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Unplanned consequences? Planning Bill steams ahead and British Steel scoop 15:20

26d ago15:20

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, ENDS journalists discuss: The attempts being made by MPs to amend the controversial Planning and Infrastructure Bill. How documents obtained by ENDS have revealed th…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, April 23rd: More xorsearch Updates; DKIM Replay Attack; SSL.com Vulnerability Fixed 6:18

26d ago6:18

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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 searches https://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 i…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, April 22nd: Phishing via Google; ChatGPT Fingerprint; Asus AI Cloud Vuln; PyTorch RCE 5:35

27d ago5:35

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It's 2025, so why are malicious advertising URLs still going strong? Phishing attacks continue to take advantage of Google s advertising services. Sadly, this is still the case for obviously malicious links, even after various anti-phishing services flag the URL. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/It%27s%202025...%20so%20why%20are%20obviously%20malicious%2…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, April 21st: MSFT Entra Lockouts; Erlang/OTP SSH Exploit; Sonicwall Exploit; bubble.io bug 7:31

28d ago7:31

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Microsoft Entra User Lockout Multiple organizations reported widespread alerts and account lockouts this weekend from Microsoft Entra. The issue is caused by a new feature Microsoft enabled. This feature will lock accounts if Microsoft believes that the password for the account was compromised. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/widesp…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, April 18th: Remnux Cloud Environment; Erlang/OTP SSH Vuln; Brickstorm Backdoor Analysis; GPT 4.1 Safety Controversy 6:18

1M ago6:18

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RedTail: Remnux and Malware Management A description showing how to set up a malware analysis in the cloud with Remnux and Kasm. RedTail is a sample to illustrate how the environment can be used. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/RedTail%2C%20Remnux%20and%20Malware%20Management%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/31868 Critical Erlang/OTP SSH Vulnerability Researchers …

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SANS Stormcast Thursday April 17th: Apple Updates; Oracle Updates; Google Chrome Updates; CVE News; 6:04

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Apple Updates Apple released updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and VisionOS. The updates fix two vulnerabilities which had already been exploited against iOS. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Patches%20Exploited%20Vulnerability/31866 Oracle Updates Oracle released it quarterly critical patch update. The update addresses 378 security vulnerabilities…

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Down but not out? Greening Britain’s steel and Gove’s return 14:02

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, ENDS journalists discuss: The government's intervention over the running of British Steel in Scunthorpe and its net zero future. The return of former environment se…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday Apr 16th: File Upload Service Abuse; OpenSSH 10.0 Released; Apache Roller Vuln; Possible CVE Changes 5:54

1M ago5:54

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Online Services Again Abused to Exfiltrate Data Attackers like to abuse free online services that can be used to exfiltrate data. From the originals , like pastebin, to past favorites like anonfiles.com. The latest example is gofile.io. As a defender, it is important to track these services to detect exfiltration early https://isc.sans.edu/diary/On…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday April 15th: xorsearch Update; Short Lived Certificates; New USB Malware 5:35

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xorsearch Update Diedier updated his "xorsearch" tool. It is now a python script, not a compiled binary, and supports Yara signatures. With Yara support also comes support for regular expressions. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/xorsearch.py%3A%20Searching%20With%20Regexes/31854 Shorter Lived Certificates The CA/Brower Forum passed an update to reduce t…

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SANS Stormcast Monday April 14th: Langlow AI Attacks; Fortinet Attack Cleanup; MSFT Inetpub; 7:07

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Exploit Attempts for Recent Langflow AI Vulnerability (CVE-2025-3248) After spotting individaul attempts to exploit the recent Langflow vulnerability late last weeks, we now see more systematic internet wide scans attempting to verify the vulnerability. https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Exploit+Attempts+for+Recent+Langflow+AI+Vulnerability+CVE20253…

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SANS Stormcast Friday April 11th: Network Infraxploit; Windows Hello Broken; Dell Update; Langflow Exploit 5:34

1M ago5:34

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Network Infraxploit Our undergraduate intern, Matthew Gorman, wrote up a walk through of CVE-2018-0171, an older Cisco vulnerability, that is still actively being exploited. For example, VOLT TYPHOON recently exploited this problem. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Network+Infraxploit+Guest+Diary/31844 Windows Update Issues / Windows 10 Update Microsoft …

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SANS Stormcast ThursdayApril 10th: Getting Past PyArmor; CenterStack RCE; Android 0-Day Patch; VMware Tanzu Patches; Odd Win11 Directory; WhatsApp File Confusion; SANS AI Guide; 6:35

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Getting Past PyArmor PyArmor is a python obfuscation tool used for malicious and non-malicious software. Xavier is taking a look at a sample to show what can be learned from these obfuscated samples with not too much work. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Obfuscated%20Malicious%20Python%20Scripts%20with%20PyArmor/31840 CenterStack RCE CVE-2025-30406 Glad…

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Trump tariff turbulence meets UK net zero 17:55

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, ENDS journalists discuss: The implications of US president Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs and the knock-on impacts on net zero policies in the UK. How the environm…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, April 10th: Microsoft Patch Tuesday; Adobe Patches; OpenSSL 3.5 with PQC; Fortinet 7:19

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft patched over 120 vulnerabilities this month. 11 of these were rated critical, and one vulnerability is already being exploited. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20April%202025%20Patch%20Tuesday/31838 Adobe Updates Adobe released patches for 12 different products. In particular important are patches for Coldfusi…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, April 8th: 6:18

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XORsearch: Searching With Regexes Didier explains a workaround to use his tool XORsearch to search for regular expressions instead of simple strings. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/XORsearch%3A%20Searching%20With%20Regexes/31834 MCP Security Notification: Tool Poisoning Attacks Invariant labs summarized a critical weakness in the Model Context Protocol…

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SANS Stormcast Monday April 7th 2025: New Username Report; Quickshell Vulnerability; Apache Traffic Director Request Smuggeling 6:14

1M ago6:14

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New SSH Username Report A new ssh/telnet username reports makes it easier to identify new usernames attackers are using against our telnet and ssh honeypots https://isc.sans.edu/diary/New%20SSH%20Username%20Report/31830 Quickshell Sharing is Caring: About an RCE Attack Chain on Quick Share The Google Quick Share protocol is susceptible to several v…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, Apr 4th: URL Frequency Analysis; Ivanti Flaw Exploited; WinRAR MotW Vuln; Tax filing scams; Oracle Breach Update 6:16

2M ago6:16

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Exploring Statistical Measures to Predict URLs as Legitimate or Intrusive Using frequency analysis, and training the model with honeypot data as well as log data from legitimate websites allows for a fairly simple and reliable triage of web server logs to identify possible malicious activity. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploring%20Statistical%20Mea…

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Episode 19 - Jim Marous, Owner & Host - Banking Transformed Podcast, Co-Publisher - The Financial Brand 38:58

2M ago38:58

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Banking influencer Jim Marous joins Jody Bhagat to discuss how institutions can move beyond basic personalization to create truly personal customer relationships. Learn why the biggest threat to banks isn't account closure – it's "silent attrition" as customers quietly shift their most profitable activities elsewhere. Key Topics: 0:00 - Introductio…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday Apr 3rd: Juniper Password Scans; Hacking Call Records; End to End Encrypted GMail 9:23

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Surge in Scans for Juniper t128 Default User Lasst week, we dedtect a significant surge in ssh scans for the username t128 . This user is used by Juniper s Session Smart Routing, a product they acquired from 128 Technologies which is the reason for the somewhat unusual username. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Surge%20in%20Scans%20for%20Juniper%20%22t12…

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Bees saved from the bonfire? DEFRA review recommends red tape revolution 21:58

2M ago21:58

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, ENDS journalists discuss: The Corry review and the burning consequences for nature and environmental policy. How experts are warning that the government’s Planning …

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday Apr 2nd: Apple Updates Everything; 7:16

2M ago7:16

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Apple Patches Everything Apple released updates for all of its operating systems. Most were released on Monday with WatchOS patches released today on Tuesday. Two already exploited vulnerabilities, which were already patched in the latest iOS and macOS versions, are now patched for older operating systems as well. A total of 145 vulnerabilities wer…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday Apr 1st: Apache Camel Exploits; New Cert Authorities Requirements; Possible Oracle Breach 7:36

2M ago7:36

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Apache Camel Exploit Attempt by Vulnerability Scans A recently patched vulnerability in Apache Camel has been integrated into some vulnerability scanners, like for example OpenVAS. We do see some exploit attempts in our honeypots, but they appear to be part of internal vulnerablity scans https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apache%20Camel%20Exploit%20Attempt…

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SANS Stormcast Monday, March 31st: Comparing Phishing Sites; DOH and MX Abuse Phishing; opkssh 7:15

2M ago7:15

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A Tale of Two Phishing Sties Two phishing sites may use very different backends, even if the site itself appears to be visually very similar. Phishing kits are often copied and modified, leading to sites using similar visual tricks on the user facing site, but very different backends to host the sites and reporting data to the miscreant. https://is…

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SANS Stormcast Friday, March 28th: Sitecore Exploited; Blasting Past Webp; Splunk and Firefox Vulnerabilities 6:15

2M ago6:15

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Sitecore "thumbnailsaccesstoken" Deserialization Scans (and some new reports) CVE-2025-27218 Our honeypots detected a deserialization attack against the CMS Sitecore using a thumnailaccesstoken header. The underlying vulnerability was patched in January, and security firm Searchlight Cyber revealed details about this vulnerability a couple of weeks…

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SANS Stormcast Thursday Mar 27th: Classifying Malware with ML; Malicious NPM Packages; Google Chrome 0-day 4:50

2M ago4:50

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Leveraging CNNs and Entropy-Based Feature Selection to Identify Potential Malware Artifacts of Interest This diary explores a novel methodology for classifying malware by integrating entropy-driven feature selection with a specialized Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Motivated by the increasing obfuscation tactics used by modern malware authors,…

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Road run-off rage as DEFRA braces for budget cuts 17:57

2M ago17:57

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy. This week, ENDS journalists discuss: An exclusive on how toxic chemicals from road run-off are spilling within striking distance of protected sites What the environment secret…

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday Mar 26th: XWiki Exploit; File Converter Correction; VMWare Vulnerability; Draytek Router Reboots; MMC Exploit Details; 6:14

2M ago6:14

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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 te…

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SANS Stormcast Tuesday Mar 25th: Privacy Awware Bots; Ingress Nightmare; Malicious File Converters; VSCode Extension Leads to Ransomware 5:55

2M ago5:55

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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 ma…

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SANS Stormcast Monday Mar 24th: Critical Next.js Vulnerability; Microsoft Trust Signing Platform Abuse 7:10

2M ago7:10

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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-middleware https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-f82v-jwr5-mffw http…

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