SANS Daily Stormcast

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Johannes Ullrich

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.

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ISC StormCast for Monday, March 6th 2017 March 05, 2017

How Your Pictures Affect Your Website Reputation https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/How+your+pictures+may+affect+your+website+reputation/22151/ De-Obuscating Padded Code https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Another+example+of+maldoc+string+obfuscation+with+extra+bonus+UAC+bypass/22153/ FoxIT PDF Reader Vulnerability https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php#content-2017 Applying SHA1 Shatter Attack To Bittorent https://biterrant.io Gargoyle Memory Scanning Evasion https://jlospinoso.github.io/security/assembly/c/cpp/developing/software/2017/03/04/gargoyle-memory-analysis-evasion.html Attacking Synergy Clients https://www.n00py.io/2017/03/compromising-synergy-clients-with-a-rogue-synergy-server/

ISC StormCast for Friday, March 3rd 2017 March 02, 2017

Business E-Mail Compromise and Sender Policy Framework Typos (SPF) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Phishing+for+Big+Money+Wire+Transfers+is+Still+Alive+and+Well+or+For+Want+of+Good+Punctuation+all+was+Lost/22141/ Android Developers Infected With Malware Publishing Malicious Apps http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/03/unit42-google-play-apps-infected-malicious-iframes/ DBLTek GoIP Backdoor https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Undocumented-Backdoor-Account-in-DBLTek-GoIP/ Decrypting Findzip/Patcher Ransomware https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/02/decrypting-after-a-findzip-ransomware-infection/

ISC StormCast for Thursday, March 2nd 2017 March 01, 2017

LDAP and STARTTLS https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/SSLTLS+on+port+389+Say+what/22135/ Wordpress NextGen Gallery Plugin SQL Injection Vulnerability https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/sql-injection-vulnerability-nextgen-gallery-wordpress.html Password Manager Insecurities https://team-sik.org/trent_portfolio/password-manager-apps/ Slack Insecure Cross Window Messaging https://labs.detectify.com/2017/02/28/hacking-slack-using-postmessage-and-websocket-reconnect-to-steal-your-precious-token/ Google Voice Recognition Used to Break Google ReCaptcha Audio Challenge https://east-ee.com/2017/02/28/rebreakcaptcha-breaking-googles-recaptcha-v2-using-google/

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, March 1st 2017 February 28, 2017

Amazon Cloud IPv4 Reuse Leads to Stray Requests https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/My+Catch+Of+4+Months+In+The+Amazon+IP+Address+Space/22129 Amazon S3 Outage https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Amazon+S3+Outage/22131/ CloudPets Leaks Recordings https://www.troyhunt.com/data-from-connected-cloudpets-teddy-bears-leaked-and-ransomed-exposing-kids-voice-messages/ ESET Antivirus Vulnerability Puts Macs at Risk http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Feb/68 Analysis of a Simple PHP Backdoor https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Analysis+of+a+Simple+PHP+Backdoor/22127/

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, February 28th 2017 February 27, 2017

Google Chrome TLS 1.3 Update Causes Issues With Bluecoat https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=694593 Windows 10 Will Implmenet "Gatekeeper" Like Technology https://twitter.com/vitorgrs/status/835674417602637824 Google Releases E2EMail Chrome Plugin https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/e2email-research-project-has-left-nest_24.html Decrypting SCOM "RunAs" Credentials https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blogs/2017/february/scomplicated-decrypting-scom-runas-credentials/

ISC StormCast for Monday, February 27th 2017 February 26, 2017

Cloudflare Leaks Data https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug/ IE/Edge Denial of Service https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1011#c2 "Dynamite Phishing" https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Dynamite+Phishing/22121/ Google Credentials Problems https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail/LOt2x1_c3KM

ISC StormCast for Friday, February 24th 2017 February 23, 2017

Researchers Find SHA1 Collision https://shattered.io/static/shattered.pdf Arrest Made in Deutsche Telekom DSL Modem Attack https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-police-arrest-suspect-behind-mirai-malware-attacks-on-deutsche-telekom/

ISC StormCast for Thursday, February 23rd 2017 February 22, 2017

User Centric Mobile Device Security With Stethoscope http://techblog.netflix.com/2017/02/introducing-netflix-stethoscope.html Fingerprinting Firefox With Intermediate Certificates https://shiftordie.de/blog/2017/02/21/fingerprinting-firefox-users-with-cached-intermediate-ca-certificates-fiprinca/ JudasDNS Attack DNS Proxy https://github.com/mandatoryprogrammer/JudasDNS

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, February 22nd 2017 February 21, 2017

Microsoft Releases Flash Patch From Skipped February Update https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/MS17-005 Investigating Off-Premise Wireless Behaviour https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Investigating+OffPremise+Wireless+Behaviour+or+I+Know+What+You+Connected+To/22089/ "Bugdrop" Steals Large Amount of Audio https://cyberx-labs.com/en/blog/operation-bugdrop-cyberx-discovers-large-scale-cyber-reconnaissance-operation/

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, February 21st 2017 February 20, 2017

Hardening Postfix Against FTP Relay Attacks https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Hardening+Postfix+Against+FTP+Relay+Attacks/22086/ Kaspersky Examins Mobile Car Apps https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/77576/mobile-apps-and-stealing-a-connected-car/ Cars "Remember" Prior Owners http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/17/technology/used-car-hack-safety-location/ Xen Project Reconsidering Vulnerability Disclosure Policy https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/02/14/request-for-comment-scope-of-vulnerabilities-for-which-xsas-are-issued/ Stagefright Vulnerability had minimal affect on Android Security https://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/adrian_ludwig

ISC StormCast for Monday, February 20th 2017 February 19, 2017

RTRBK: Router, Switch, Firewall Backups in Powershell https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/RTRBK+Router+Switch+Firewall+Backups+in+PowerShell+tool+drop/22079/ Windows EMF Imge 0-Day Memory Leak https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=992 Brazillian Traffic Ticket Malspam https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Brazilian+malspam+sends+Autoitbased+malware/22081/ Using XXE To Send E-Mail https://shiftordie.de/blog/2017/02/18/smtp-over-xxe/

ISC StormCast for Friday, February 17th 2017 February 17, 2017

AVM Private Key Leak Puts Cable Modems At Risk https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/AVM+Private+Key+Leak+Puts+Cable+Modems+Worldwide+At+Risk/22076/ OpenSSL Update https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/OpenSSL+110e+Update+No+need+to+panic+openssl/22074/ Microsoft Update Delayed https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/02/14/february-2017-security-update-release/ ANC Attack ASLR Bypass https://www.vusec.net/projects/anc/

ISC StormCast for Thursday, February 16th 2017 February 16, 2017

How Was Your Stay At The Hotel La Playa https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/How+was+your+stay+at+the+Hotel+La+Playa/22069 XAgent OS X Malware https://labs.bitdefender.com/2017/02/new-xagent-mac-malware-linked-with-the-apt28/ Conference Phone Compromise https://www.contextis.com//resources/blog/phwning-boardroom-hacking-android-conference-phone/

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, February 15th 2017 February 14, 2017

Microsoft Cancels Patch Tuesday https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/02/14/february-2017-security-update-release/ Adobe Update For Flash https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-04.html WebSephere Update http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21997743 Operation Kingphish https://medium.com/amnesty-insights/operation-kingphish-uncovering-a-campaign-of-cyber-attacks-against-civil-society-in-qatar-and-aa40c9e08852#.965et86vk Hacking Node-Serialize http://blog.websecurify.com/2017/02/hacking-node-serialize.html

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, February 14th 2017 February 13, 2017

New Tool: Packettotal.com http://www.packettotal.com What Not To Decrypt When Intercepting SSL https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Stuff+I+Learned+Decrypting/22059/ webcast: https://www.sans.org/webcasts/8-ways-watch-invisible-analyzing-encrypted-network-traffic-103277 Simple Static Malware Analyzer https://github.com/secrary/SSMA Critical Firefox for Android Vulnerability https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-04/ Ubuntu ntfs-3g Privilege Escalation https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1072 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Changes http://www.infoworld.com/article/3139922/microsoft-windows/microsoft-to-revamp-its-documentation-for-security-patches.html

ISC StormCast for Monday, February 13th 2017 February 12, 2017

Vulnerabilities in Samsung KNOX https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.de/2017/02/lifting-hyper-visor-bypassing-samsungs.html Auditing MongoDB Configurations https://github.com/stampery/mongoaudit Reversing Javascript https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Analysis+of+a+Suspicious+Piece+of+JavaScript/22056/ Wordpress REST API Flaw Widely Exploited https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/02/rapid-growth-in-rest-api-defacements/ Cryptographically Secure PHP Development https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/02/cryptographically-secure-php-development DEV522 Web Application Security Essentials https://www.sans.org/event/sans-2017/course/defending-web-applications-security-essentials

ISC StormCast for Friday, February 10th 2017 February 09, 2017

F5 Big IP Ticketbleed Vulnerability https://filippo.io/Ticketbleed/ CryptoShield Ransomware from Rig EK https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/CryptoShield+Ransomware+from+Rig+EK/22047/ Hancitor/Pony Malspam https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/HancitorPony+malspam/22053/ Apple Retaining Old Browser History Data https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2017/02/elcomsoft-extracts-deleted-safari-browsing-history-from-icloud/#more-3769 Brute Forcing LUKS Passwords https://0x00sec.org/t/breaking-encryption-hashed-passwords-luks-devices/811

ISC StormCast for Thursday, February 9th 2017 February 08, 2017

Cloud Metadata URLs https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Cloud+Metadata+Urls/22046/ Intel Atom C2000 Chip Failures http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_to_link_product_warning_to_faulty_chip/ More W-2 Scams, Now Combined With Wire Transfer Scams https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/08/beware-the-latest-tax-season-spear-phishing-scam/ Macro Malware Coming to MacOS https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x17.html

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, February 8th 2017 February 07, 2017

Using Emojis as Passwords https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/My+Password+is+taco+Using+Emojis+for+Stronger+Passwords/22042/ Popular iOS Applications Not Using TLS https://medium.com/@chronic_9612/76-popular-apps-confirmed-vulnerable-to-silent-interception-of-tls-protected-data-2c9a2409dd1#.nv0mf6w4e Web Bluetooth Security Model https://medium.com/@jyasskin/the-web-bluetooth-security-model-666b4e7eed2#.kqtxdk70h E-Mail Spoofing in GMail https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aware-sender-spoofing-amongst-gmail-users-renato-marinho

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, February 7th 2017 February 06, 2017

Malicous or Not? Help Me Decide https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Malicious+Or+Not+You+decide/22040/ OpenBSD Http Server DoS Vulnerability https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2017-02-07-openbsd-httpd-CVE-2017-5850.html Bypassing Tor Browser Via Windows DRM https://www.myhackerhouse.com/windows_drm_vs_torbrowser/ Freedom Hosting II Compromise https://www.scmagazineuk.com/major-dark-web-host-hacked-381000-sets-of-user-details-leaked-online/article/636259/

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