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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 Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 January 21, 2020

DeepBlueCLI https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/DeepBlueCLI+Powershell+Threat+Hunting/25730/ https://github.com/sans-blue-team/DeepBlueCLI EFS Ransomware https://safebreach.com/Post/EFS-Ransomware Fake Leak Compensation https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/data-leak-compensation-scam/32057/ Criminals Use Fake Job Sites to Defraud Victims https://www.ic3.gov/media/2020/200121.aspx

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, January 21st 2020 January 20, 2020

Twist on Sextortion https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7886055/Sextortion-campaign-targets-users-Google-Nest-smart-camera.html Emotet Uses Extortion to Infect Systems https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/emotet-malware-dabbles-in-extortion-with-new-spam-template/ Lastpass Outage https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/20/lastpass_outage/ Netgear Signed TLS Cert Private Key Disclosure https://gist.github.com/nstarke/a611a19aab433555e91c656fe1f030a9

ISC StormCast for Monday, January 20th 2020 January 19, 2020

Microsoft Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/ADV200001 CVE-2020-0601 Update https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Summing+up+CVE20200601+or+the+Lets+Decrypt+vulnerability/25720/ Curveball Update https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2020/01/19/vulnerability-update-first-permanent-fixes-available-timeline-accelerated/ https://isc.sans.edu/diary//25724

ISC StormCast for Friday, January 17th 2020 January 16, 2020

CVE-2020-0601 Update ("Curveball" , "Letsdecrypt") https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Summing+up+CVE20200601+or+the+Lets+Decrypt+vulnerability/25720/ https://curveballtest.com Certain Netscaler Devices Do Not Support Mitigation (article in dutch) https://www.ncsc.nl/actueel/nieuws/2020/januari/16/door-citrix-geadviseerde-mitigerende-maatregelen-niet-altijd-effectief Cable Haunt Vulnerability https://cablehaunt.com/ STI Student Interview: Jon Michael Lacek https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/securecode/changing-devops-culture-security-scan-time-39125

ISC StormCast for Thursday, January 16th 2020 January 15, 2020

CVE-2020-0601 Followup https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/CVE20200601+Followup/25714/ Oracle Patches https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, January 15th 2020 January 14, 2020

Microsoft January 2020 Patch Tuesday and #CryptoAPI Flaw Webcast: https://sans.org/cryptoapi-isc Diary: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Microsoft+Patch+Tuesday+for+January+2020/25710/ NSA Release: https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/14/2002234275/-1/-1/0/CSA-WINDOWS-10-CRYPT-LIB-20190114.PDF

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, January 14th 2020 January 13, 2020

Upcoming Critical MSFT Patch https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/cryptic-rumblings-ahead-of-first-2020-patch-tuesday/ SIM Swapping is Easy https://www.issms2fasecure.com/assets/sim_swaps-01-10-2020.pdf Google Open Sources wombat dressing room npm publication proxy https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/01/wombat-dressing-room-npm-publication_10.html

ISC StormCast for Monday, January 13th 2020 January 12, 2020

Citrix ADC Vulnerability Actively Exploited. Assume vulnerable systems are compromised. Updated Citrix Advisory: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX267027 Exploit Activity Summary: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Citrix+ADC+Exploits+are+Public+and+Heavily+Used+Attempts+to+Install+Backdoor/25700/ Vulnerablity Scanner: https://github.com/trustedsec/cve-2019-19781/ Special Webcast: https://i5c.us/citrix YouTube Walk Through of the vulnerability: https://youtu.be/msslpqyf98c

ISC StormCast for Friday, January 10th 2020 January 09, 2020

Another Malicious Word Document https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Quick+Analyzis+of+another+Maldoc/25694/ SHA1 Update https://sha-mbles.github.io/ Cisco Updates https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing.x Mandy Galante: Girls Go Cyberstart (register now. Play Jan 13th-31st) https://www.girlsgocyberstart.org/

ISC StormCast for Thursday, January 9th 2020 January 08, 2020

Critical Firefox Update Fixing Exploited Bug https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-03/ 3 Google Play Store Apps Exploit Android Zero-Day https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/first-active-attack-exploiting-cve-2019-2215-found-on-google-play-linked-to-sidewinder-apt-group/ Tails 4.2 https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.2/index.en.html TikTok Vulnerablities https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/tik-or-tok-is-tiktok-secure-enough/

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, January 8th 2020 January 07, 2020

Citrix ADC Update https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/A+Quick+Update+on+Scanning+for+CVE201919781+Citrix+ADC+Gateway+Vulnerability/25686/ Pulse Secure SSLVPN Exploited https://devco.re/blog/2019/09/02/attacking-ssl-vpn-part-3-the-golden-Pulse-Secure-ssl-vpn-rce-chain-with-Twitter-as-case-study/ https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/widely-known-flaw-in-pulse-secure-vpn-being-used-in-ransomware-attacks/d/d-id/1336729 Google Project Zero Changing Disclosure Policy https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/01/policy-and-disclosure-2020-edition.html Google Updates Android https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2020-01-01

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, January 7th 2020 January 06, 2020

Spoofed Scans from 103/8 https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Increase+in+Number+of+Sources+January+3rd+and+4th+spoofed/25678/ Iran Terror Threat https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/ntas/alerts/20_0104_ntas_bulletin.pdf BusKill Laptop Kill Cord https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-kill-cord-dead-man-switch/

ISC StormCast for Monday, January 6th 2020 January 05, 2020

Quick Summary of the California Conumser Privacy Act https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/CCPA+Quick+Overview/25668/ Cisco Vulnerabilities https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing.x XiaoMi Camera Cache Bug https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/eine1m/when_i_load_the_xiaomi_camera_in_my_google_home/

ISC StormCast for Friday, January 3rd 2020 January 02, 2020

Ransomware written in JavaScript using Node.js https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Ransomware+in+Nodejs/25664/ Landry Restaurant PoS Breach https://www.landrysinc.com/CreditNotice/CANotice.asp Holiday Hack Challenge https://www.holidayhackchallenge.com Citrix/NetScaler Vulnerability Special Webcast Recording https://i5c.us/citrix

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, December 31st 2019 December 30, 2019

ISC API Update https://isc.sans.edu/api https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Miscellaneous+Updates+to+our+Threatfeed+API/25654/ CCC Conference https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/ https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

ISC StormCast for Monday, December 30th 2019 December 29, 2019

Breaking 2FA Soft Tokens https://resources.fox-it.com/rs/170-CAK-271/images/201912_Report_Operation_Wocao.pdf PiHole Dashboard https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/ELK+Dashboard+for+Pihole+Logs/25652/ Corrupt Office Documents https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Corrupt+Office+Documents/25650/ Enumerating Office 365 Users https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Enumerating+office365+users/25648/

ISC StormCast for Friday, December 27th 2019 December 26, 2019

Citrix Application Delivery Controller (Netscaler ADC) Critical Vulnerability https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/about/news/citrix-vulnerability-allows-criminals-to-hack-networks-of-80000-companies/ https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX267027

ISC StormCast for Monday, December 23rd 2019 December 22, 2019

Extracting VBA Macros From .DWG Files https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Extracting+VBA+Macros+From+DWG+Files/25634/ Cisco PKI Self-Signed Certificate Expiration https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/704/fn70489.html AFRINIC IP Address Space Misappropriated By Insider https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-resources-worth-r800-million-were-stolen-and-sold-on-the-black-market.html

ISC StormCast for Friday, December 20th 2019 December 19, 2019

More DNS over HTTPS Details https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/More+DNS+over+HTTPS+Become+One+With+the+Packet+Be+the+Query+See+the+Query/25628/ Ransomware Outing Victims https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/ransomware-gangs-now-outing-victim-businesses-that-dont-pay-up/ Google Chrome Update https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_17.html

ISC StormCast for Thursday, December 19th 2019 December 18, 2019

An Emotet Update https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Emotet+infection+with+spambot+activity/25622/ Emotet Used to Spread Malware From German Federal Agency Accounts (german) https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2019/Spam-Bundesbehoerden_181219.html Joomla Patches SQL Injection https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre.html Unicode Mapping Problems https://eng.getwisdom.io/hacking-github-with-unicode-dotless-i/

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