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

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SANS Stormcast Monday, May 11th: Steganography Challenge; End-of-Life Routers; ASUS Driverhub; RV-Tools SEO Poisoning 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 botnets taking advantage of unpatched routers. Many of these routers are end-of-life, and no patches are available for the exploited vulnerabilities. The attackers are turning the devices into proxies, which are resold for various criminal activities. https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA250507 ASUS Driverhub Vulnerability ASUS Driverhub software does not properly check the origin of HTTP requests, allowing a CSRF attack from any website leading to arbitrary code execution. https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/ RV-Tools SEO Poisoning Varonis Threat Labs observed SEO poisoning being used to trick system administrators into installing a malicious version of RV Tools. The malicious version includes a remote access tool leading to the theft of credentials https://www.varonis.com/blog/seo-poisoning#initial-access-and-persistence keywords: steganography; fbi; router; seq; rv-tools; asus; driverhub