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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, November 7th 2016 November 06, 2016

Hancitor Maldoc Bypasses Application Whitelisting https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Hancitor+Maldoc+Bypasses+Application+Whitelisting/21683/ Microsoft Extends EMET Support Deadline https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2016/11/03/beyond-emet/ Wifi Based IMSI Catcher https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-16/materials/eu-16-OHanlon-WiFi-IMSI-Catcher.pdf

ISC StormCast for Friday, November 4th 2016 November 03, 2016

Reconstruct Binaries Sent via Telnet https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Extracting+Malware+Transmitted+Via+Telnet/21673/ Wix.com DOM Based XSS https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/dom-xss-in-wix.com DNS Based Mail Security https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building_blocks/secured_email Web of Trust Plugin Released Anonymized User Data https://www.mywot.com/en/forum/70396--virus-spyware-do-not-install-uninstall-as-soon-as-possible

ISC StormCast for Thursday, November 3rd 2016 November 02, 2016

Exchange Web Service Two-Factor Authentication Bypass http://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/?p=5396 Barracuda DoS Disrupts Mail Delivery http://status.barracuda.com Targobank Looses Account Data After Maintenance http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/targobank-kunden-fehlt-geld-auf-dem-konto-it-probleme-a-1119434.html (german only) Ouch! Security Awareness Newsletter http://securingthehuman.sans.org/newsletters/ouch/issues/OUCH-201611_en.pdf

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 November 01, 2016

Malvertising On Google AdWords Targeting macOS Users http://blog.cylance.com/malvertising-on-google-adwords-targeting-macos-users Microsoft Response to Google Privilege Escalation Disclosure https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2016/11/01/our-commitment-to-our-customers-security/ Memcached Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/10/memcached-vulnerabilities.html SAP Vulnerability Details Released https://erpscan.com/press-center/blog/0-day-sap-vulnerability-published-heres-can/

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, November 1st 2016 October 31, 2016

snapshot.ps1 DFIR Capture https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/SEC505+DFIR+capture+script+snapshotps1/21659/ Predicting Domain Reputation http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/predator-ccs16.pdf Mozilla Removing Battery Status API For Privacy Reasons https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/docs/2016/battery-status-api-has-been-removed/ Windows Privilege Escalation 0-day Actively Exploited https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/disclosing-vulnerabilities-to-protect.html

ISC StormCast for Monday, October 31st 2016 October 30, 2016

Volatility Bot: Automated Memory Analysis https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Volatility+Bot+Automated+Memory+Analysis/21655/ 911 System Fragility Exposed in Accidental DoS Attacks https://staging.mcso.org/Multimedia/PressRelease/911%20Cyber%20Attack.pdf Vulnerability in Mirai Botnet https://www.invincealabs.com/blog/2016/10/killing-mirai/ XNU Kernel (iOS/macOS) task_t Privildge Escalation https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.de/2016/10/taskt-considered-harmful.html

ISC StormCast for Friday, October 28th 2016 October 27, 2016

Small Changes to Ransomware E-Mails May Fool Some Mail Filters https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Your+Bill+Is+Not+Overdue+today/21647/ Microsoft / Google Release Browser Updates to Address Flash Vulnerablity https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms16-128.aspx https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com Social Media "Support" Phishing https://www.proofpoint.com/us/corporate-blog/post/cybercriminals-spoof-every-major-bank-masquerade-branded-customer-service-twitter-accounts Path Traversal Vulnerablity in gnu tar https://sintonen.fi/advisories/tar-extract-pathname-bypass.proper.txt Podcast Survey https://dshield.typeform.com/to/lVgHr5

ISC StormCast for Thursday, October 27th 2016 October 26, 2016

Adobe Releases Emergency Patch For Flash https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Critical+Flash+Player+Update+APSB1636/21643/ Mobile Pwn2Own Writeup http://blog.trendmicro.com/results-mobile-pwn2own-2016/ Mozilla Will Stick With Blacklisting Startcom/WoSign https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new-wosign-and-startcom-certificates/ Joomla Exploit Released https://medium.com/@showthread/joomla-3-6-4-account-creation-elevated-privileges-write-up-and-exploit-965d8fb46fa2#.b8gks1jar Google Spreadsheet Vulnerability https://www.rodneybeede.com/Google_Spreadsheet_Vuln_-_CSRF_and_JSON_Hijacking_allows_data_theft.html

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, October 26th 2016 October 25, 2016

Joomla Fixes Two Critical Vulnerablities; https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5678-joomla-3-6-4-released.html Letsencrypt Domain Verification Problem https://dan.enigmabridge.com/lets-encrypts-vulnerability-as-a-feature-authz-reuse-and-eternal-account-key/ New Locky Variants: Pumpkin Locky http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/10/pumpkin-locky.html Pagers still in use for Critical Infrastructure http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cyber-attacks/industrial-plant-beepers-leaking-secrets

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, October 25th 2016 October 24, 2016

Updates For iOS, MacOS, Safari https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222 LTE Intercept Vulnerability http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/23/every_lte_call_text_can_be_intercepted_blacked_out_hacker_finds/ Rowhammer Exploit Demonstrated Against Android https://www.vusec.net/projects/drammer/

ISC StormCast for Monday, October 24th 2016 October 23, 2016

ISC Briefing: Large DDoS Attack Against Dyn https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/ISC+Briefing+Large+DDoS+Attack+Against+Dyn/21627/ TCP Port 4786: Cisco Memory Leak Vulnerability https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Request+for+Packets+TCP+4786+CVE20166385/21625/ Dirty Cow PoC Exploits Available https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/PoCs To register for today's SANS Technology Institute's Professional Lecture Series, pleaes e-mail [email protected]

ISC StormCast for Friday, October 21st 2016 October 20, 2016

NanoCore RAT Malspam Update https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Malspam+delivers+NanoCore+RAT/21615/ Dirty Cow Privilege Escalation Flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384344#c13 Lexmark Markvision Enterprise Application Vulnerability https://www.digitaldefense.com/blog-zero-day-lexmark-markvision/ WebRTC Security Overview https://webrtc-security.github.io UPnP Scanner https://www.tenable.com/blog/do-you-know-where-your-upnp-is

ISC StormCast for Thursday, October 20th 2016 October 19, 2016

Spam Delivered Via .ICS Files https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Spam+Delivered+via+ICS+Files/21611/ Comodo OCR Errors Leads to SSL Certificate Verification Issues https://heise.de/-3354229 (german only) Oracle Quarterly Critical Patch Update http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html Images Used to Exfiltrate CC Numbers From Web Stores https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/10/magento-credit-card-swiper-exports-image.html

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, October 19th 2016 October 18, 2016

SSL Client Hellos Soliciting SSH Banners from HAProxy https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/OpenSSH+Protocol+Mismatch+In+Response+to+SSL+Client+Hello/21609/ Dyre is Back as Trickbot http://www.threatgeek.com/2016/10/trickbot-the-dyre-connection.html How Stolen iPhones Are Unlocked https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sin-card-how-criminals-unlocked-stolen-iphone-6s-renato-marinho?trk=pulse_spock-articles

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, October 18th 2016 October 17, 2016

Mozilla Users Reach 50% Https https://twitter.com/0xjosh/status/786971412959420424/photo/1 Retrieving LastPass Passwords From Memory https://techanarchy.net/2016/10/extracting-lastpass-site-credentials-from-memory/ Yahoo MITM Due To Weak Crossdomain.xml Configuration https://github.com/JordanMilne/YMail-Pineapple

ISC StormCast for Monday, October 17th 2016 October 16, 2016

PseudoDakrleech Uses Rig Exploit Kit to Spread Cerber https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/pseudoDarkleech+Rig+EK/21595/ Decoder.xls to Decode Word Malicious Macro https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Analyzing+Office+Maldocs+With+Decoderxls/21601/ Auditing SSH Servers https://github.com/arthepsy/ssh-audit How Not To User HTML Purifier https://devwerks.net/blog/16/how-not-to-use-html-purifier/

ISC StormCast for Friday, October 14th 2016 October 13, 2016

Mount Docker Filesystems with docker-mount.py https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/New+tool+dockermountpy/21589/ Global Sign OCSP Mess Up Invalidates Countless Certs https://downloads.globalsign.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/2674/p/p-008f/t/page/fm/0 Cisco Releases LockyDump http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/10/lockydump.html Google Updates Chrome https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html DXXD Ransomware Infected un-mapped Shares http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-dxxd-ransomware-displays-legal-notice-before-users-login/

ISC StormCast for Thursday, October 13th 2016 October 12, 2016

WiFi Still Remains a Good Attack Vector https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/WiFi+Still+Remains+a+Good+Attack+Vector/21583/ AVTECH IP Camera Vulnerabilities http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Oct/26 SAP Patches 3 Year Old Bug in P4 https://erpscan.com/press-center/blog/sap-cyber-threat-intelligence-report-october-2016/ 1024 bit DSA Keys Factored https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/961.pdf

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, October 12th 2016 October 11, 2016

Microsoft and Adobe Patches https://isc.sans.edu/mspatchdays.html?viewday=2016-10-11 https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb16-33.html http://www.minixforum.com/threads/neo-z64w-doesnt-start-anymore-after-windows-10-update-help.14122/ Review of Browsers SSL Failures https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b7lenmn5XO06QohaJzVffnJxjXjY1rD70wg34gfuxRo/edit#heading=h.w6vk76mv9e6n New Malware Targeting SWIFT Users http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/odinaff-new-trojan-used-high-level-financial-attacks

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, October 11th 2016 October 10, 2016

Radare's Rehash Utility CAn calculate File Entropy https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Radare2+rahash2/21577/ Spoofing IPs Still works https://idea.popcount.org/2016-09-20-strange-loop---ip-spoofing/ EU Commission Plants IoT Labeling http://www.euractiv.com/section/innovation-industry/news/commission-plans-cybersecurity-rules-for-internet-connected-machines/

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