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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, August 29th 2018 August 28, 2018

Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906424 3D Printers Exposed to Internet https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/OctoPrint+3D+Web+Interfaces+EXPOSED+Port+5000+default/24038/ Firefox Nightly Built Removes Trust From Symantec Certificates https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460062 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1484006

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, August 28th 2018 August 27, 2018

H-Worm Variant Notes Infection Date in Registry https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/When+was+this+machine+infected/24032/ CentOS / Ubuntu Turn Off Gnome "Bubblewrap" Sandbox https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ubuntu-and-centos-are-undoing-a-gnome-security-feature/ Fortnite Android Arbitrary Code Install Vulnerability https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ubuntu-and-centos-are-undoing-a-gnome-security-feature/

ISC StormCast for Monday, August 27th 2018 August 26, 2018

Struts Exploits for CVE-2018-11776 on Github (there are more. just a sample) https://github.com/mazen160/struts-pwn_CVE-2018-11776 https://github.com/jiguang7/CVE-2018-11776 Publisher Malware https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Microsoft+Publisher+Files+Delivering+Malware/24024/ https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Microsoft+Publisher+malware+static+analysis/24026/ AT Commands https://atcommands.org/atdb/vendors Using a Microphone to Read Screen Content https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/synesthesia/synesthesia.pdf

ISC StormCast for Friday, August 24th 2018 August 23, 2018

Simple Phishing Through formcrafts.com https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Simple+Phishing+Through+formcraftscom/24020/ Facebook's Onavo VPN removed from Apple AppStore https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-remove-data-security-app-from-apple-store-1534975340?mod=e2tw (paywall) https://medium.com/@chronic_9612/notes-on-analytics-and-tracking-in-onavo-protect-for-ios-904bdff346c0 Phishing False Alarm https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/politics/dnc-hack-false-alarm/index.html Fake Crypto Trading App Stealing Crypot Currency From Mac Users https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180823005093/en/AppleJeus-Lazarus-Group-Hunts-Cryptocurrency-Exchanges-macOS Intel Simplifies Microcode License https://twitter.com/imadsousou/status/1032680311753072640

ISC StormCast for Thursday, August 23rd 2018 August 22, 2018

New Critical Apache Struts Vulnerability (CVE-2018-11776) https://semmle.com/news/apache-struts-CVE-2018-11776 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/S2-057 Hardening Apache Struts With SELinux https://doublepulsar.com/hardening-apache-struts-with-selinux-db3a9cd1a10c?gi=f23fc884264a Ghostscript Code Execution Vulnerability https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1640 Photoshop CC Patch https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/photoshop/apsb18-28.html

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, August 22nd 2018 August 21, 2018

Malicious DDL Loaded Through AutoIT https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Malicious+DLL+Loaded+Through+AutoIT/24008/ Traefik Fixes TLS Private Key Exposure https://github.com/containous/traefik/issues/3651 TLS Certificates Survive Domain Ownership https://insecure.design Intel Microcode License Update Causes Problems for Debian Linux https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906158#14

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, August 21st 2018 August 20, 2018

Regular Expression DDoS in Javascript http://mp.binaervarianz.de/ReDoS_TR_Dec2017.pdf OpenSSH User Enumeration Update https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/OpenSSH+user+enumeration+CVE201815473/24004 Turning (Page) Tables Exploit Technique https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/487909/Turning%20(Page)%20Tables_Slides.pdf

ISC StormCast for Monday, August 20th 2018 August 19, 2018

Fragmentsmack Summary https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Back+to+the+90s+FragmentSmack/23998/ HP Does Not Release Patches for Non-Windows Users https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/exclusive-hp-leaves-mac-users-vulnerable-to-fax-hacks/ More about VB Script 0-Day Vulnerability and "Dark Hotel" (chinese only) https://ti.360.net/blog/articles/analyzing-attack-of-cve-2018-8373-and-darkhotel/ https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/use-after-free-uaf-vulnerability-cve-2018-8373-in-vbscript-engine-affects-internet-explorer-to-run-shellcode/ PHP Deserialization Vulnerability Code Execution https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3853213/us-18-Thomas-It's-A-PHP-Unserialization-Vulnerability-Jim-But-Not-As-We-....pdf?

ISC StormCast for Friday, August 17th 2018 August 16, 2018

Anonymize PCAPS https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Truncating+Payloads+and+Anonymizing+PCAP+files/23990/ OpenSSH User Enumeration Vulnerability http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/124 VoiceXML XML External Entity Vulnerability https://hackerone.com/reports/395296 Skimreaper Credit Card Skimmer Detector http://skimreaper.com

ISC StormCast for Thursday, August 16th 2018 August 15, 2018

Password Protected Word Documents Push AZORult and Hermes Ransomware https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/More+malspam+pushing+passwordprotected+Word+docs+for+AZORult+and+Hermes+Ransomware/23992/ Linux IP Fragmentation DoS https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/641765 Scripting Mouse Clicks to Bypass macOS Security https://speakerdeck.com/patrickwardle/the-mouse-is-mightier-than-the-sword Concentration of Coinhive Miners https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.00811.pdf

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, August 15th 2018 August 15, 2018

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Microsoft+August+2018+Patch+Tuesday/23986/ Oracle Database Patch http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/alert-cve-2018-3110-5032149.html Intel Fixes Three More CPU Flaws https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/software-guidance/l1-terminal-fault

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, August 14th 2018 August 13, 2018

New Sextorition Wave Using Partial Phone Numbers New Extortion Tricks: Now Including Your (Partial) Phone Number! Intel Releases Patch for Puma Modem Chips https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32071020-Internet-Rogers-modem-router-rebooting-on-wan-scans-by-design https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-000097.html Bluetooth Low Energy Attack Tool https://github.com/virtualabs/btlejack Tesla Will Fix Cars if Researcher Breaks it While Hacking https://twitter.com/bitquark/status/1028373178421309440

ISC StormCast for Monday, August 13th 2018 August 12, 2018

VIA C3 "God Mode" https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge Apple MDM Vulnerablity https://www.wired.com/story/mac-remote-hack-wifi-enterprise/ Peeking into MSG Files https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Peeking+into+msg+files+revisited/23974/ Hunting SSL/TLS Clients Using JA3 https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Hunting+SSLTLS+clients+using+JA3/23972/ Mobile Payment Terminal Vulnerabilities https://www.blackhat.com/us-18/briefings.html#for-the-love-of-money-finding-and-exploiting-vulnerabilities-in-mobile-point-of-sales-systems

ISC StormCast for Friday, August 10th 2018 August 09, 2018

Vulnerabilities in Pacemaker Programmer and Insulin Pumps https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/lack-of-encryption-makes-hacks-on-life-saving-pacemakers-shockingly-easy/ "Panic Attacks" Against City Infrastructure https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45128053 Kaspersky VPN Leaks DNS Traffic https://www.inputzero.io/2018/08/kaspersky-vpn-leaks-dns-address.html Osiris Dropper Uses Process Dopplegaenging https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/08/osiris-using-process-doppelganging/

ISC StormCast for Thursday, August 9th 2018 August 08, 2018

Homebrew Exposed Github Credentials https://brew.sh/2018/08/05/security-incident-disclosure/ WhatsApp Vulnerability https://research.checkpoint.com/fakesapp-a-vulnerability-in-whatsapp/ Netflix Releases Tool To Detected Cloud Credential Compromise https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/netflix-cloud-security-detecting-credential-compromise-in-aws-9493d6fd373a

ISC StormCast for Wednesday, August 8th 2018 August 07, 2018

Linux TCP DoS Vulnerability https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/962459 Let's Encrypt Now Trusted By All Major Root CA Programs https://letsencrypt.org/2018/08/06/trusted-by-all-major-root-programs.html Android Updates https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-08-01 OpenEMR Vulnerabilities https://insecurity.sh/assets/reports/openemr.pdf

ISC StormCast for Tuesday, August 7th 2018 August 06, 2018

Numeric Obfuscation https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Numeric+obfuscation+another+example/23960/ Crestron Touchscreen Vulnerability https://blog.securitycompass.com/security-advisory-regarding-crestron-tsw-xx60-touch-panel-devices-9f1a71a926a5 Facebook Releases "Fizz" TLS 1.3 Library https://github.com/facebookincubator/fizz

ISC StormCast for Monday, August 6th 2018 August 05, 2018

New WPA Attack https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html Fake Techsupport Uses More Intelligent Call Routing https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/tech-support-scam-call-optimization HP Printer Updates https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06097712

ISC StormCast for Friday, August 3rd 2018 August 02, 2018

Malware in Animated GIF Files https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/DHLthemed+malspam+reveals+embedded+malware+in+animated+gif/23944/ MikroTik Miner Botnet https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Mass-MikroTik-Router-Infection-%E2%80%93-First-we-cryptojack-Brazil,-then-we-take-the-World-/ Microsoft Edge Vulnerability https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/stealing-local-files-with-simple-html-file/

ISC StormCast for Thursday, August 2nd 2018 August 01, 2018

Facebook Smishing Attack https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Facebook+Phishing+via+SMS/23940/ Port 52869 UPNP Attacks https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/When+Cameras+and+Routers+attack+Phones+Spike+in+CVE20148361+Exploits+Against+Port+52869/23942/ Microsoft Improves Account Security for Midterm Elections https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-accountguard-service-offers-protection-for-political-and-election-orgs/ Google Improves "Government Sponsored Attacks" Alert for GSuite https://9to5google.com/2018/08/01/g-suite-admins-government-based-attackers/

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