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Apple TV IPv6 DoS https://isc.sans.edu/diary/How%20an%20AppleTV%20may%20take%20down%20your%20%28%23IPv6%29%20network/30336 Squid Patches https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories Critical Citrix Update https://www.netscaler.com/blog/news/cve-2023-4966-critical-security-update-now-available-for-netscaler-adc-and-netscaler-gateway/ Cisco Vulnerablity Updates CVE-2023-20198 https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-iosxe-webui-privesc-j22SaA4z

base64dump.py Handles More Encodings Than Just BASE64 https://isc.sans.edu/diary/base64dump.py%20Handles%20More%20Encodings%20Than%20Just%20BASE64/30332 Stealing OAuth Tokens via Open Redirects https://eval.blog/research/microsoft-account-token-leaks-in-harvest/ VMWare Patches https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories.html Solarwinds Patches https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/arm/content/release_notes/arm_2023-2-1_release_notes.htm

Honeypot Update https://github.com/DShield-ISC/dshield/blob/main/README.md Malicious Keepass Ads https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intelligence/2023/10/clever-malvertising-attack-uses-punycode-to-look-like-legitimate-website Malicious JavaScript in Smart Contracts https://labs.guard.io/etherhiding-hiding-web2-malicious-code-in-web3-smart-contracts-65ea78efad16

In Episode 356, Ben and Scott revisit the ROI of Microsoft 365 Copilot, discuss some methods for bulk restores from the SharePoint Online Recycle bin, and some upcoming changes to default outbound internet access for your Azure VMs. If you have a chance, nominate the show for Best Podcast at Read More

Hiding in Hex https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Hiding%20in%20Hex/30322 Oracle Quarterly Critical Patch Update https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2023.html Citrix Vulnerability Exploited CVE-2023-4966 https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/remediation-netscaler-adc-gateway-cve-2023-4966 Exposed Jupyter Notebooks Exploited https://www.cadosecurity.com/qubitstrike-an-emerging-malware-campaign-targeting-jupyter-notebooks/

Changes to SMS Delivery and How it Effects MFA and Phishing https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Changes%20to%20SMS%20Delivery%20and%20How%20it%20Effects%20MFA%20and%20Phishing/30320 Fake Traffic Tickets with QR Code https://twitter.com/polizeiberlin/status/1713867011837567411 Synology NAS DSM Account Takeover: Not Random Randomnumbers https://claroty.com/team82/research/synology-nas-dsm-account-takeover-when-random-is-not-secure Milesight Routers CVe-2023-43261 https://github.com/win3zz/CVE-2023-43261

Are Typos Still relevant As An Indicator of Phishing https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Are+typos+still+relevant+as+an+indicator+of+phishing/30316 Active Exploitation of Cisco ISO XE Software Web Management User Interface Vuln https://blog.talosintelligence.com/active-exploitation-of-cisco-ios-xe-software/ Mail traffic to cancelled domain names https://www.sidn.nl/en/nl-domain-name/mail-traffic-to-cancelled-domain-names SAMBA Update https://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html

What's Normal: Odd Mac Addresses https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/What's%20Normal%3A%20MAC%20Addresses/30310/ Domain Name Used as Password Captured by DShield Sensor https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Domain%20Name%20Used%20as%20Password%20Captured%20by%20DShield%20Sensor/30312/ PoC Exploit for CVE-2023-41993 https://github.com/po6ix/POC-for-CVE-2023-41993 AvosLocker Ransomware Details https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-10/aa23-284a-joint-csa-stopransomware-avoslocker-ransomware-update.pdf DarkGate Spreading via Skype and Teams https://www.trendmicro.com/en_ph/research/23/j/darkgate-opens-organizations-for-attack-via-skype-teams.html

SeroXen RAT in Typosquatted NuGet Packages https://blog.phylum.io/phylum-discovers-seroxen-rat-in-typosquatted-nuget-package/ Hexadecimal IP Addresses https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/57635/ Juniper Vulnerabilities https://supportportal.juniper.net/s/global-search/%40uri?language=en_US#sort=%40sfcec_community_publish_date_formula__c%20descending&numberOfResults=50&f:ctype=[Security%20Advisories] Unpatched Squid Vulnerabilities https://joshua.hu/squid-security-audit-35-0days-45-exploits BSIDES Jacksonville https://bsidesjax.org

In Episode 355, Ben and Scott sit down with SharePoint developer extraordinaire Andrew Connell from Voitanos to talk about SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and some changes in SharePoint Framework (SPFX) support. You’ll definitely want to listen in to make sure that you’re falling into the “Pit of Success” for developing SPFX solutions Read More

CVE-2023-22515 Activately Exploited https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/cve-2023-22515-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-confluence-data-center-and-server-1295682276.html curl SOCKS5 oversized hostname vulnerability CVe-2023-38545 https://isc.sans.edu/diary/CVE-2023-38545%3A%20curl%20SOCKS5%20oversized%20hostname%20vulnerability.%20How%20bad%20is%20it%3F/30304 Adobe Acrobat Vulnerablity Actively Exploited CVE-2023-21608 https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/10/10/cisa-adds-five-known-vulnerabilities-catalog Google Makes Passkey the Default https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/passkeys-default-google-accounts/ VBScript Deprecated from Windows https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/deprecated-features

http2 rapid reset https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack/ microsoft patch tuesday https://isc.sans.edu/diary/October%202023%20Microsoft%20Patch%20Tuesday%20Summary/30300

ZIP's DOSTIME and DOSDATE Formats https://isc.sans.edu/diary/ZIP%27s%20DOSTIME%20%26%20DOSDATE%20Formats/30296 New Magecart Campaign Abusing 404 Pages https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/magecart-new-technique-404-pages-skimmer Sophos Effected by Exim Flaw https://www.sophos.com/en-us/security-advisories/sophos-sa-20231005-exim-vuln Turn OFF This WatchGuard Feature: GuardLapse https://projectblack.io/blog/turn-off-this-watchguard-feature-guardlapse/

Binary IPv6 Address Conversion https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Binary%20IPv6%20Addresses/30290 Wireshark Updates https://www.wireshark.org/ Improved GitHub Secret Scanning https://github.blog/2023-10-04-introducing-secret-scanning-validity-checks-for-major-cloud-services/ Prerooted Android Devices https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/thousands-of-android-devices-come-with-unkillable-backdoor-preinstalled/ curl update https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/12026

New tool: le-hex-to-ip.py https://isc.sans.edu/diary/New%20tool%3A%20le-hex-to-ip.py/30284 Cisco Emergency Responder Static Credentials Vulnerability https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cer-priv-esc-B9t3hqk9 Loony Tunables PoC CVE-2023-4911 https://haxx.in/files/gnu-acme.py Malicious Python Packages https://checkmarx.com/blog/the-evolutionary-tale-of-a-persistent-python-threat/ Supermicro BMC Vulnerability https://binarly.io/posts/Binarly_REsearch_Uncovers_Major_Vulnerabilities_in_Supermicro_BMCs/index.html

In Episode 354, Ben and Scott catch up on news and the latest announcements starting with Cisco and Splunk merging. Then they discuss the Surface and AI event where we saw the latest Surface hardware and learned about the straight to GA release of Microsoft 365 and Windows Copilot. Like Read More

Normal Connections https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Whats+Normal+Connection+Sizes/30278/ Apple Patches https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20fixes%20vulnerabilities%20in%20iOS%20and%20iPadOS./30280 Looney Tunables Linux Privilege Escalation https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911-looney-tunables-local-privilege-escalation-in-the-glibcs-ld-so Atlasian Confluence Server Vulnerability https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-92475

Are Local LLMs Useful in Incident Response? https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Are%20Local%20LLMs%20Useful%20in%20Incident%20Response%3F/30274 Pytorch Vulnerability https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4mqg-h5jf-j9m7 BING Reads Captchas https://twitter.com/literallydenis/status/1708283962399846459 Evilproxy vs. Microsoft 365 https://www.menlosecurity.com/blog/evilproxy-phishing-attack-strikes-indeed/

Friendly Reminder: ZIP Metadata is Not Encrypted https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Friendly%20Reminder%3A%20ZIP%20Metadata%20is%20Not%20Encrypted/30268 EXIM New Version Released https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2023-zdi.txt Mail GPU Kernel Driver Allows Improper GPU Memory Processing Operations https://developer.arm.com/Arm%20Security%20Center/Mali%20GPU%20Driver%20Vulnerabilities Bing AI Serves Malicous Ads https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intelligence/2023/09/malicious-ad-served-inside-bing-ai-chatbot Google Announces Robots.txt Ad-Restrictions https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers#adsbot-mobile-web-android

Analyzing MIME Files: a Quick Tip https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Analyzing%20MIME%20Files%3A%20a%20Quick%20Tip/30266 Infostealers Looking for Password Files https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Are+You+Still+Storing+Passwords+In+Plain+Text+Files/30262/ Simple Netcat Backdoor https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Simple+Netcat+Backdoor+in+Python+Script/30264/ EXIM Response to the ZDI Release https://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2023-zdi.txt Exploit for WS_FTP Vulnerability https://www.assetnote.io/resources/research/rce-in-progress-ws-ftp-ad-hoc-via-iis-http-modules-cve-2023-40044