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 Tuesday, March 26th 2019 March 25, 2019

ASUS Live Update "ShadowHammer" Backdoor https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/shadow-hammer-teaser https://shadowhammer.kaspersky.com/ Telegram Unsent Feature https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/25/going-going-gone/ F5 Big IP Updates https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14812883

ISC StormCast for Monday, March 25th 2019 March 24, 2019

Reversing Malware Written In Golang https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Introduction+to+analysing+Go+binaries/24770/ More "VelvetSweatshop" Maldocs https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/VelvetSweatshop+Maldocs/24772/ Reading QR Codes in Python https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Decoding+QR+Codes+with+Python/24774/ Pwn2Own Contest: Firefox, Safari, Edge and others fall https://www.zdnet.com/article/tesla-car-hacked-at-pwn2own-contest/ Norwegian Nokia Phones Sent Data to China (Article in Norwegian) https://nrkbeta.no/2019/03/21/norske-telefoner-sendte-personopplysninger-til-kina/ Java Card Vulnerabilities https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Mar/35

ISC StormCast for Thursday, March 21st 2019 March 21, 2019

Google Photo Cross-Site-Leak Exposes Picture Meta Data https://www.imperva.com/blog/now-patched-google-photos-vulnerability-let-hackers-track-your-friends-and-location-history/ Fake CDC EMails Spread GandCrab Ransomware https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/fake-cdc-flu-pandemic-warning-delivers-gandcrab-5-2-ransomware/ Atlassian Sourcetree Vulnerability https://confluence.atlassian.com/sourcetreekb/sourcetree-security-advisory-2019-03-06-966678691.html Microsoft Defender for MacOS https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/21/microsoft_defender_atp/

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, March 20th 2019 March 20, 2019

Using Active Directory (AD) To Find Hosts That Are Not in AD https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Using+AD+to+find+hosts+that+arent+in+AD+fun+with+the+IPAddress+construct/24762/ Microsoft Anti Malware Crashing Windows https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/18ab60a3-3b26-4a07-b68d-84085ce66ce5/scep-crashing-pcs?forum=ConfigMgrCompliance&prof=required Reduction in DDoS Attacks https://www.nexusguard.com/threat-report-q4-2018

ISC StormCast for Monday, March 18th 2019 March 18, 2019

Putty Updates https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Fujitsu Wireless Keyboard Vulnerabilities https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2018-033.txt Signed Malware Goes Undetected https://twitter.com/malwrhunterteam/status/1104082562216062978/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1104082562216062978&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2019%2F03%2F18%2Fsecurity_roundup_150319%2F Free Support for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ends in April https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2019-March/000241.html Latest Mirai Version with Even More Exploits https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/new-mirai-variant-targets-enterprise-wireless-presentation-display-systems/

ISC StormCast for Sunday, March 17th 2019 March 17, 2019

Binary Analysis With Jupyter and Radare2 https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Binary+Analysis+with+Jupyter+and+Radare2/24748/ IMAP Brute Forcing against Cloud Accounts https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/threat-actors-leverage-credential-dumps-phishing-and-legacy-email-protocols Google Allows GSuite Users to Disable SMS/Voice Authentication https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/03/more-control-over-2-step-verification-security-phone-sms.html Sniffing Bitlocker Keys from TPM https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/TPM-sniffing

ISC StormCast for Friday, March 15th 2019 March 14, 2019

Analyzing ZIP Files in Ghydra https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Tip+Ghidra+ZIP+Files/24732/ 64 Bit Certificate Serial Number Revocation https://adamcaudill.com/2019/03/09/tls-64bit-ish-serial-numbers-mass-revocation/ Cisco Default Account Problem https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190313-cspcscv Intel Patches https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00185.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00191.html

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, March 13th 2019 March 12, 2019

Microsoft Patch Tuesday https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Microsoft+March+2019+Patch+Tuesday/24742/ Adobe Updates https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html PSMiner https://blog.360totalsecurity.com/en/new-mining-worm-psminer-uses-multiple-high-risk-vulnerabilities-to-spread/ Automatic Certificate Managment Environment https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8555

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, March 12th 2019 March 11, 2019

DevOps Tool StackStorm Vulnerability https://quitten.github.io/StackStorm/ Developers Will Not Code Secure By Default https://net.cs.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/naiakshi/Naiakshina_Password_Study.pdf Gaming Industry Supply Chain Attack https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/03/11/gaming-industry-scope-attackers-asia/

ISC StormCast for Monday, March 11th 2019 March 10, 2019

Reversing HTA Files https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Quick+and+Dirty+Malicious+HTA+Analysis/24728/ Apache SOLR Patch https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13301 Windows 7 + Google Chrome Exploit in the Wild https://security.googleblog.com/2019/03/disclosing-vulnerabilities-to-protect.html Vulnerable Car Alarms https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/gone-in-six-seconds-exploiting-car-alarms/

ISC StormCast for Friday, March 8th 2019 March 07, 2019

RSA Panel Video https://www.rsaconference.com/videos/the-five-most-dangerous-new-attack-techniques-and-how-to-counter-them Disposable E-Mail Addresses https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Keep+an+Eye+on+Disposable+Email+Addresses/24716/ NetApp Default Account Vulnerability https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190305-0001/ Cisco NS-OS NX-API Privilege Escalation https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190306-nxos-NXAPI-cmdinj Slub Backdoor Users GitHub and Slack https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/new-slub-backdoor-uses-github-communicates-via-slack/

ISC StormCast for Thursday, March 7th 2019 March 06, 2019

More Resume Malspam. Now With Trickbot and EternalBlue https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Malspam+with+passwordprotected+word+docs+still+pushing+IcedID+Bokbot+with+Trickbot/24708/ Cloudflare Deploys Rules to Protect Against Recent Drupal Exploit https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-deploys-firewall-rule-to-block-new-drupal-exploits/ Cisco DoS Vulnerability Activity Exploited https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/cisco-rv130-its-2019-but-yet-strcpy/ MonitorKit uses macOS Game Engine to Analyze Security Events https://github.com/objective-see

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, March 6th 2019 March 05, 2019

Comcast Uses same "0000" PIN For All Number Porting Requests https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/05/comcast-security-nightmare-default-0000-pin-on-everybodys-account/ NSA Releases Ghidra Reverse Analysis Tool https://ghidra-sre.org/ Recent Google Chrome Vulnerability Being Exploited https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html?m=1 Android Monthly Security Bulletin https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2019-03-01

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, March 5th 2019 March 04, 2019

MacOS Unpatched Privilge Escalation Vulnerability made Public https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1726 Windows Exploit Suggester Next Generation Released https://github.com/bitsadmin/wesng Docker Vulnerability used for Crypto Miners https://www.imperva.com/blog/hundreds-of-vulnerable-docker-hosts-exploited-by-cryptocurrency-miners/ Russian GPS Jamming Exercises https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2019/03/russian-military-officials-arrive-oslo-norway-provides-facts-gps-jamming

ISC StormCast for Monday, March 4th 2019 March 03, 2019

Cisco Router Patch https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190227-rmi-cmd-ex Coldfusion Patch and Exploit https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2019/3/1/urgent_CF_security_update_Part_1 Ransomware Impersonates Protonmail https://twitter.com/demonslay335/status/1097866931762282498 eBay Site Used for eBay Phish (article in German) https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/eBay-Phishing-auf-eBay-Seite-4324266.html

ISC StormCast for Friday, March 1st 2019 February 28, 2019

Emotet Backend Analysis https://maxkersten.nl/binary-analysis-course/malware-analysis/emotet-droppers/ Kaspersky Vs. Chromecast https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaspersky-av-having-certificate-conflicts-with-google-chromecast/ MageCart Updates https://www.riskiq.com/research/inside-magecart/

ISC StormCast for Thursday, February 28th 2019 February 27, 2019

Coinhive Shutting Down https://coinhive.com/blog/en/discontinuation-of-coinhive Azure Blob Storage Phishing https://www.edgewave.com/phishing/feeling-blue-about-phishing/ Old 2014 Elastic Search Vulnerability Exploited https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/02/cisco-talos-honeypot-analysis-reveals.html Latest Drupal Vulnerability Exploited https://www.imperva.com/blog/latest-drupal-rce-flaw-used-by-cryptocurrency-miners-and-other-attackers/ F5 Big IP Patches https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K91026261

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, February 27th 2019 February 26, 2019

Thunderbolt "Thunderclap" Vulnerabilities https://thunderclap.io/thunderclap-paper-ndss2019.pdf Altering Signed PDF Documents https://www.pdf-insecurity.org/ NVidia Patches https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4772

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, February 26th 2019 February 25, 2019

WinRAR ACE Vulnerabilty used in Malspam https://twitter.com/360TIC/status/1099987939818299392 Sextortion Email With QR Code https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Sextortion+Email+Variant+With+QR+Code/24686/ ICANN Pushes DNSSEC to Defend Against DNS Zone Manipulation https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-02-22-en Android FIDO2 Certification https://fidoalliance.org/android-now-fido2-certified-accelerating-global-migration-beyond-passwords/

ISC StormCast for Monday, February 25th 2019 February 24, 2019

B0ront0k Linux Server Ransomware https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/b0r0nt0k-ransomware-wants-75-000-ransom-infects-linux-servers/ Cr1pt0r Ransomware Targets DLink NAS Devices https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/691852/cr1ptt0r-ransomware-files-encrypted-readmetxt-support-topic/page-3 LinkedIn Messages Used to Push Fake Job Offers https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/fake-jobs-campaigns-delivering-moreeggs-backdoor-fake-job-offers

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