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Welcome to The StormCast, a podcast from the Omaha Storm Chasers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. Hosted by play-by-play broadcaster Nick Badders, The StormCast covers all things Omaha Storm Chasers baseball and features special guests that include past, present, and future Storm Chasers players and coaches, a variety media members, front office personnel, and more!So hit subscribe, join us for all the fun, and let's stir it up!

Steganography Analysis With pngdump.py: Bitstreams More details from Didiear as to how to extract binary content hidden inside images https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Steganography%20Analysis%20With%20pngdump.py%3A%20Bitstreams/31904 Using Trusted Protocols Against You: Gmail as a C2 Mechanism Attackers are using typosquatting to trick developers into installing malicious python packages. These python packages will use GMail as a command and control channel by sending email to hard coded GMail accounts https://socket.dev/blog/using-trusted-protocols-against-you-gmail-as-a-c2-mechanism Security Brief: French BEC Threat Actor Targets Property Payments A French business email compromise threat actor is targeting property management firms to send emails to tenents tricking them into sending rent payments to fake bank accounts https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/security-brief-french-bec-threat-actor-targets-property-payments SANS.edu Research Journal https://isc.sans.edu/j/research

Web Scanning for Sonicwall Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-20016 For the last week, scans for Sonicwall API login and domain endpoints have skyrocketed. These attacks may be exploiting an older vulnerability or just attempting to brute force credentials. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Web%20Scanning%20Sonicwall%20for%20CVE-2021-20016/31906 The Wizards APT Group SLAAC Spoofing Adversary in the Middle Attacks ESET published an article with details regarding an IPv6-linked attack they have observed. Attackers use router advertisements to inject fake recursive DNS servers that are used to inject IP addresses for hostnames used to update software. This leads to the victim downloading malware instead of legitimate updates. https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/thewizards-apt-group-slaac-spoofing-adversary-in-the-middle-attacks/ Windows RDP Access is Possible with Old Credentials Credential caching may lead to Windows allowing RDP logins with old credentials. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/windows-rdp-lets-you-log-in-using-revoked-passwords-microsoft-is-ok-with-that/?comments-page=1#comments

More Scans for SMS Gateways and APIs Attackers are not just looking for SMS Gateways like the scans we reported on last week, but they are also actively scanning for other ways to use APIs and add on tools to send messages using other people s credentials. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/More%20Scans%20for%20SMS%20Gateways%20and%20APIs/31902 AirBorne: AirPlay Vulnerabilities Researchers at Oligo revealed over 20 weaknesses they found in Apple s implementation of the AirPlay protocol. These vulnerabilities can be abused to execute code or launch denial-of-service attacks against affected devices. Apple patched the vulnerabilities in recent updates. https://www.oligo.security/blog/airborne

SRUM-DUMP Version 3: Uncovering Malware Activity in Forensics Mark Baggett released SRUM-DUMP Version 3. The tool simplifies data extraction from Widnows System Resource Usage Monitor (SRUM). This database logs how much resources software used for 30 days, and is invaluable to find out what software was executed when and if it sent or received network data. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/SRUM-DUMP%20Version%203%3A%20Uncovering%20Malware%20Activity%20in%20Forensics/31896 Novel Universal Bypass For All Major LLMS Hidden Layer discovered a new prompt injection technique that bypasses security constraints in large language models. The technique uses an XML formatted prequel for a prompt, which appears to the LLM as a policy file. This Policy Puppetry can be used to rewrite some of the security policies configured for LLMs. Unlike other techniques, this technique works across multiple LLMs without changing the policy. https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/ CHOICEJACKING: Compromising Mobile Devices through Malicious Chargers like a Decade ago The old Juice Jacking is back, at least if you do not run the latest version of Android or iOS. This issue may allow a malicious USB device, particularly a USB charger, to take control of a device connected to it. https://pure.tugraz.at/ws/portalfiles/portal/89650227/Final_Paper_Usenix.pdf SANS @RSA: https://www.sans.org/mlp/rsac/

Example of a Payload Delivered Through Steganography Xavier and Didier published two diaries this weekend, building on each other. First, Xavier showed an example of an image being used to smuggle an executable past network defenses, and second, Didier showed how to use his tools to extract the binary. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Example%20of%20a%20Payload%20Delivered%20Through%20Steganography/31892 SAP Netweaver Exploited CVE-2025-31324 An arbitrary file upload vulnerability in SAP s Netweaver product is actively exploited to upload webshells. Reliaquest discovered the issue. Reliaquest reports that they saw it being abused to upload the Brute Ratel C2 framework. Users of Netweaver must turn off the developmentserver alias and disable visual composer, and the application was deprecated for about 10 years. SAP has released an emergency update for the issue. https://reliaquest.com/blog/threat-spotlight-reliaquest-uncovers-vulnerability-behind-sap-netweaver-compromise/ https://onapsis.com/blog/active-exploitation-of-sap-vulnerability-cve-2025-31324/ Any.Run Reports False Positive Uploads Due to false positives caused by MS Defender XDR flagging Adobe Acrobat Cloud links as malicious, many users of Any.Run s free tier uploaded confidential documents to Any.Run. Anyrun blocked these uploads for now but reminded users to be cautious about what documents are being uploaded. https://x.com/anyrun_app/status/1915429758516560190

Attacks against Teltonika Networks SMS Gateways Attackers are actively scanning for SMS Gateways. These attacks take advantage of default passwords and other commonly used passwords. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Attacks%20against%20Teltonika%20Networks%20SMS%20Gateways/31888 Commvault Vulnerability CVE-2205-34028 Commvault, about a week ago, published an advisory and a fix for a vulnerability in its backup software. watchTowr now released a detailed writeup and exploit for the vulnerability https://labs.watchtowr.com/fire-in-the-hole-were-breaching-the-vault-commvault-remote-code-execution-cve-2025-34028/ Exploitation Trends Q1 2025 Vulncheck published a summary of exploitation trends, pointing out that about a quarter of vulnerabilities are exploited a day after a patch is made available. https://vulncheck.com/blog/exploitation-trends-q1-2025 inetpub directory issues The inetpub directory introduced by Microsoft in its April patch may lead to a denial of service against applying patches on Windows if an attacker can create a junction for that location pointing to an existing system binary like Notepad. https://doublepulsar.com/microsofts-patch-for-cve-2025-21204-symlink-vulnerability-introduces-another-symlink-vulnerability-9ea085537741

Honeypot Iptables Maintenance and DShield-SIEM Logging In this diary, Jesse is talking about some of the tasks to maintain a honeypot, like keeping filebeats up to date and adjusting configurations in case your dynamic IP address changes https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Honeypot%20Iptables%20Maintenance%20and%20DShield-SIEM%20Logging/31876 XRPL.js Compromised An unknown actor was able to push malicious updates of the XRPL.js library to NPM. The library is officially recommended for writing Riple (RPL) cryptocurrency code. The malicious library exfiltrated secret keys to the attacker https://www.aikido.dev/blog/xrp-supplychain-attack-official-npm-package-infected-with-crypto-stealing-backdoor https://github.com/XRPLF/xrpl.js/security/advisories/GHSA-33qr-m49q-rxfx Cisco Equipment Affected by Erlang/OTP SSH Vulnerability Cisco published an advisory explaining which of its products are affected by the critical Erlang/OTP SSH library vulnerability https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-erlang-otp-ssh-xyZZy

xorsearch.py: Ad Hoc YARA Rules Adhoc YARA rules allow for easy searches using command line arguments without having to write complete YARA rules for simple use cases like string and regex searches https://isc.sans.edu/diary/xorsearch.py%3A%20%22Ad%20Hoc%20YARA%20Rules%22/31856 Google Spoofed via DKIM Replay Attack DKIM replay attacks are a known issue where the attacker re-uses a prior DKIM signature. This will work as long as the headers signed by the signature are unchanged. Recently, this attack has been successful against Google. https://easydmarc.com/blog/google-spoofed-via-dkim-replay-attack-a-technical-breakdown/ SSL.com E-Mail Validation Bug SSL.com did not properly verify which domain a particular email address is authorized to receive certificates for. This could have been exploited against webmail providers. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1961406

It's 2025, so why are malicious advertising URLs still going strong? Phishing attacks continue to take advantage of Google s advertising services. Sadly, this is still the case for obviously malicious links, even after various anti-phishing services flag the URL. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/It%27s%202025...%20so%20why%20are%20obviously%20malicious%20advertising%20URLs%20still%20going%20strong%3F/31880 ChatGPT Fingerprinting Documents via Unicode ChatGPT apparently started leaving fingerprints in texts, which it creates by adding invisible Unicode characters like non-breaking spaces. https://www.rumidocs.com/newsroom/new-chatgpt-models-seem-to-leave-watermarks-on-text Asus AI Cloud Security Advisory Asus warns of a remote code execution vulnerability in its routers. The vulnerability is related to the AI Cloud feature. If your router is EoL, disabling the feature will mitigate the vulnerability https://www.asus.com/content/asus-product-security-advisory/ PyTorch Vulnerability PyTorch fixed a remote code execution vulnerability exploitable if a malicious model was loaded. This issue was exploitable even with the weight_only=True" setting selected https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/security/advisories/GHSA-53q9-r3pm-6pq6

Microsoft Entra User Lockout Multiple organizations reported widespread alerts and account lockouts this weekend from Microsoft Entra. The issue is caused by a new feature Microsoft enabled. This feature will lock accounts if Microsoft believes that the password for the account was compromised. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/widespread-microsoft-entra-lockouts-tied-to-new-security-feature-rollout/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/feature-availability Erlang/OTP SSH Exploit An exploit was published for the Erlang/OTP SSH vulnerability. The vulnerability is easy to exploit, and the exploit and a Metasploit module allow for easy remote code execution. https://github.com/exa-offsec/ssh_erlangotp_rce/blob/main/ssh_erlangotp_rce.rb Sonicwall Exploited An older command injection vulnerability is now exploited on Sonicwall devices after initially gaining access by brute-forcing credentials. https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2021-0022 Unpatched Vulnerability in Bubble.io An unpatched vulnerability in the no-code platform bubble.io can be used to access any project hosted on the site. https://github.com/demon-i386/pop_n_bubble

RedTail: Remnux and Malware Management A description showing how to set up a malware analysis in the cloud with Remnux and Kasm. RedTail is a sample to illustrate how the environment can be used. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/RedTail%2C%20Remnux%20and%20Malware%20Management%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/31868 Critical Erlang/OTP SSH Vulnerability Researchers identified a critical vulnerability in the Erlang/OTP SSH library. Due to this vulnerability, SSH servers written in Erlang/OTP allow arbitrary remote code execution without prior authentication https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/16/2 Brickstorm Analysis An analysis of a recent instance of the Brickstorm backdoor. This backdoor used to be more known for infecting Linux systems, but now it also infects Windows. https://www.nviso.eu/blog/nviso-analyzes-brickstorm-espionage-backdoor https://blog.nviso.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/NVISO-BRICKSTORM-Report.pdf OpenAI GPT 4.1 Controversy OpenAI released its latest model, GPT 4.1, without a safety report and guardrails to prevent malware creation. https://opentools.ai/news/openai-stirs-controversy-with-gpt-41-release-lacking-safety-report

Apple Updates Apple released updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and VisionOS. The updates fix two vulnerabilities which had already been exploited against iOS. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Patches%20Exploited%20Vulnerability/31866 Oracle Updates Oracle released it quarterly critical patch update. The update addresses 378 security vulnerabilities. Many of the critical updates are already known vulnerabilities in open-source software like Apache and Nginx ingress. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2025.html Oracle Breach Guidance CISA released guidance for users affected by the recent Oracle cloud breach. The guidance focuses on the likely loss of passwords. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/04/16/cisa-releases-guidance-credential-risks-associated-potential-legacy-oracle-cloud-compromise Google Chrome Update A Google Chrome update released today fixes two security vulnerabilities. One of the vulnerabilities is rated as critical. https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_15.html CVE Updates CISA extended MITRE s funding to operate the CVE numbering scheme. However, a number of other organizations announced that they may start alternative vulnerability registers. https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/ https://gcve.eu/ https://www.thecvefoundation.org/

Online Services Again Abused to Exfiltrate Data Attackers like to abuse free online services that can be used to exfiltrate data. From the originals , like pastebin, to past favorites like anonfiles.com. The latest example is gofile.io. As a defender, it is important to track these services to detect exfiltration early https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Online%20Services%20Again%20Abused%20to%20Exfiltrate%20Data/31862 OpenSSH 10.0 Released OpenSSH 10.0 was released. This release adds quantum-safe ciphers and the separation of authentication services into a separate binary to reduce the authentication attack surface. https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#10.0p1 Apache Roller Vulnerability Apache Roller addressed a vulnerability. Its CVSS score of 10.0 appears inflated, but it is still a vulnerability you probably want to address. https://lists.apache.org/thread/4j906k16v21kdx8hk87gl7663sw7lg7f CVE Funding Changes Mitre s government contract to operate the CVE system may run out tomorrow. This could lead to a temporary disruption of services, but the system is backed by a diverse board of directors representing many large companies. It is possible that non-government funding sources may keep the system afloat for now. https://www.cve.org/

xorsearch Update Diedier updated his "xorsearch" tool. It is now a python script, not a compiled binary, and supports Yara signatures. With Yara support also comes support for regular expressions. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/xorsearch.py%3A%20Searching%20With%20Regexes/31854 Shorter Lived Certificates The CA/Brower Forum passed an update to reduce the maximum livetime of certificates. The reduction will be implemented over the next four years. EFF also released an update to certbot introducing profiles that can be used to request shorter lived certificates. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/certbot-40-long-live-short-lived-certs https://groups.google.com/a/groups.cabforum.org/g/servercert-wg/c/bvWh5RN6tYI New Malware Harvesting Data from USB drives and infecting them. Kaspersky is reporting that they identified new malware that not only harvests data from USB drives, but also spread via USB drives by replacing existing documents with malicious files. https://securelist.com/goffee-apt-new-attacks/116139/

Exploit Attempts for Recent Langflow AI Vulnerability (CVE-2025-3248) After spotting individaul attempts to exploit the recent Langflow vulnerability late last weeks, we now see more systematic internet wide scans attempting to verify the vulnerability. https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Exploit+Attempts+for+Recent+Langflow+AI+Vulnerability+CVE20253248/31850/ Fortinet Analysis of Threat Actor Activity Fortinet oberved recent vulnerablities in its devices being used to add a symlink to ease future compromise. The symlink is not removed by prior patches, and Fortinet released additional updates to detect and remove this attack artifact. https://www.fortinet.com/blog/psirt-blogs/analysis-of-threat-actor-activity MSFT Inetpub Microsoft clarrified that its April patches created the inetpub directory on purpose. Users should not remove it. https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21204#exploitability SANSFIRE https://isc.sans.edu/j/sansfire

Network Infraxploit Our undergraduate intern, Matthew Gorman, wrote up a walk through of CVE-2018-0171, an older Cisco vulnerability, that is still actively being exploited. For example, VOLT TYPHOON recently exploited this problem. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Network+Infraxploit+Guest+Diary/31844 Windows Update Issues / Windows 10 Update Microsoft updated its "Release Health" notes with details regarding issues users experiences with Windows Hello, Citrix, and Roblox. Microsoft also released an emergency update for Office 2016 which has stability problems after applying the most recent update. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/april-8-2025-kb5055523-os-build-26100-3775-277a9d11-6ebf-410c-99f7-8c61957461eb https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/windows-message-center#3521 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/april-10-2025-update-for-office-2016-kb5002623-d60c1f31-bb7c-4426-b8f4-69186d7fc1e5 Dell Updates Dell releases critical updates for it's Powerscale One FS product. In particular, it fixes a default password problem. https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000300860/dsa-2025-119-security-update-for-dell-powerscale-onefs-for-multiple-security-vulnerabilities Langflow Vulnerablity (possible exploit scans sighted) CVE-2025-3248 Langflow addressed a critical vulnerability end of March. This writeup by Horizon3 demonstrates how the issue is possibly exploited. We have so far seen one "hit" in our honeypot logs for the vulnerable API endpoint URL. https://www.horizon3.ai/attack-research/disclosures/unsafe-at-any-speed-abusing-python-exec-for-unauth-rce-in-langflow-ai/

Getting Past PyArmor PyArmor is a python obfuscation tool used for malicious and non-malicious software. Xavier is taking a look at a sample to show what can be learned from these obfuscated samples with not too much work. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Obfuscated%20Malicious%20Python%20Scripts%20with%20PyArmor/31840 CenterStack RCE CVE-2025-30406 Gladinet s CenterStack secure file-sharing software suffers from an inadequately protected machine key vulnerability that can be used to modify ViewState data. This vulnerability may lead to remote code execution, which is already exploited. https://gladinetsupport.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/gladinet/securityadvisory-cve-2005.pdf Google Patches two zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2024-53150 CVE-2024-53197 Google released its monthly patches for Android. Two of the patched vulnerabilities are already exploited. One of them was used by Serbian law enforcement. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/04/google-fixes-two-actively-exploited-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-android Broadcom VMWare Tenzu Updates Broadcom released updates for VMWare Tenzu. Many vulnerabilities affect the backup component and allow for arbitrary command execution. https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/security-advisory? Windows 11 April Update ads inetpub directory The April Windows 11 update appears to create a new /inetpub directory. It is unclear why, and removing it appears to have no bad effects. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-april-update-unexpectedly-creates-new-inetpub-folder/ WhatsApp File Type Confusion/Spoofing WhatsApp patched a file type confusion vulnerability. A victim may be tricked into downloading n https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2025/ SANS Critical AI Security Guidelines https://www.sans.org/mlp/critical-ai-security-guidelines

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft patched over 120 vulnerabilities this month. 11 of these were rated critical, and one vulnerability is already being exploited. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20April%202025%20Patch%20Tuesday/31838 Adobe Updates Adobe released patches for 12 different products. In particular important are patches for Coldfusion addressing several remote code execution vulnerabilities. Adobe Commercse got patches as well, but none of the vulnerabilities are rated critical. https://helpx.adobe.com/security/security-bulletin.html OpenSSL 3.5 Released OpenSSL 3.5 was released with support to post quantum ciphers. This is a long term support release. https://groups.google.com/a/openssl.org/g/openssl-project/c/9ZYdIaExmIA Fortiswitch Update Fortinet released an update for Fortiswitch addressing a vulnerability that may be used to reset a password without verification. https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-24-435

XORsearch: Searching With Regexes Didier explains a workaround to use his tool XORsearch to search for regular expressions instead of simple strings. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/XORsearch%3A%20Searching%20With%20Regexes/31834 MCP Security Notification: Tool Poisoning Attacks Invariant labs summarized a critical weakness in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows for "Tool Poisoning Attacks." Many major providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI, workflow automation systems like Zapier, and MCP clients like Cursor are susceptible to this attack https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-security-notification-tool-poisoning-attacks Making :visited more private Google Chrome changed how links are marked as visited . This new partitioning scheme was introduced to improve privacy. Instead of marking a link as visited on any page where it is displayed, it is only marked as visited if the user clicks on the link while visiting the particular site where the link is displayed. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/visited-links

New SSH Username Report A new ssh/telnet username reports makes it easier to identify new usernames attackers are using against our telnet and ssh honeypots https://isc.sans.edu/diary/New%20SSH%20Username%20Report/31830 Quickshell Sharing is Caring: About an RCE Attack Chain on Quick Share The Google Quick Share protocol is susceptible to several vulnerabilities that have not yet been fully patched, allowing for some file overwrite issues that could lead to the accidental execution of malicious code. https://www.blackhat.com/asia-25/briefings/schedule/index.html#quickshell-sharing-is-caring-about-an-rce-attack-chain-on-quick-share-43874 Apache Traffic Director Request Smuggling Vulnerability https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/02/4

Exploring Statistical Measures to Predict URLs as Legitimate or Intrusive Using frequency analysis, and training the model with honeypot data as well as log data from legitimate websites allows for a fairly simple and reliable triage of web server logs to identify possible malicious activity. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploring%20Statistical%20Measures%20to%20Predict%20URLs%20as%20Legitimate%20or%20Intrusive%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/31822 Critical Unexploitable Ivanti Vulnerability Exploited CVE-2025-22457 In February, Ivanti patched CVE-2025-22457. At the time, the vulnerability was not considered to be exploitable. Mandiant now published a blog disclosing that the vulnerability was exploited as soon as mid-march https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-exploiting-critical-ivanti-vulnerability/ WinRAR MotW Vulnerability CVE-2025-31334 WinRAR patched a vulnerability that would not apply the Mark of the Web correctly if a compressed file included symlinks. This may make it easier to trick a victim into executing code downloaded from a website. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-31334 Microsoft Warns of Tax-Related Scam With the US personal income tax filing deadline only about a week out, Microsoft warns of commonly deployed scams that they are observing related to income tax filings https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/03/threat-actors-leverage-tax-season-to-deploy-tax-themed-phishing-campaigns/ Oracle Breach Update https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-02/oracle-tells-clients-of-second-recent-hack-log-in-data-stolen

Surge in Scans for Juniper t128 Default User Lasst week, we dedtect a significant surge in ssh scans for the username t128 . This user is used by Juniper s Session Smart Routing, a product they acquired from 128 Technologies which is the reason for the somewhat unusual username. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Surge%20in%20Scans%20for%20Juniper%20%22t128%22%20Default%20User/31824 Vulnerable Verizon API Allowed for Access to Call Logs An API Verizon offered to users of its call filtering application suffered from an authentication bypass vulnerability allowing users to access any Verizon user s call history. While using a JWT to authenticate the user, the phone number used to retrieve the call history logs was passed in a not-authenticated header. https://evanconnelly.github.io/post/hacking-call-records/ Google Offering End-to-End Encryption to G-Mail Business Users Google will add an end-to-end encryption feature to commercial GMail users. However, for non GMail users to read the emails they first must click on a link and log in to Google. https://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/gmail-easy-end-to-end-encryption-all-businesses

Apple Patches Everything Apple released updates for all of its operating systems. Most were released on Monday with WatchOS patches released today on Tuesday. Two already exploited vulnerabilities, which were already patched in the latest iOS and macOS versions, are now patched for older operating systems as well. A total of 145 vulnerabilities were patched. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Patches%20Everything%3A%20March%2031st%202025%20Edition/31816 VMWare Workstation and Fusion update check broken VMWare s automatic update check in its Workstation and Fusion products is currently broken due to a redirect added as part of the Broadcom transition https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/question/certificate-error-is-occured-during-connecting-update-server NIM Postgres Vulnerability NIM Developers using prepared statements to send SQL queries to Postgres may expose themselves to a SQL injection vulnerability. NIM s Postgres library does not appear to use actual prepared statements; instead, it assembles the code and the user data as a string and passes them on to the database. This may lead to a SQL injection vulnerability https://blog.nns.ee/2025/03/28/nim-postgres-vulnerability/

Apache Camel Exploit Attempt by Vulnerability Scans A recently patched vulnerability in Apache Camel has been integrated into some vulnerability scanners, like for example OpenVAS. We do see some exploit attempts in our honeypots, but they appear to be part of internal vulnerablity scans https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apache%20Camel%20Exploit%20Attempt%20by%20Vulnerability%20Scan%20%28CVE-2025-27636%2C%20CVE-2025-29891%29/31814 New Security Requirements for Certificate Authorities Starting in July, certificate authorities need to verify domain ownership data from multiple viewpoints around the internet. They will also have to use linters to verify certificate requests. https://security.googleblog.com/2025/03/new-security-requirements-adopted-by.html Possible Oracle Breach Oracle still denies being the victim of a data berach as leaked data may show different. https://doublepulsar.com/oracle-attempt-to-hide-serious-cybersecurity-incident-from-customers-in-oracle-saas-service-9231c8daff4a https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/30/infosec_news_in_brief/ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/oracle-still-denies-breach-researchers-persist

A Tale of Two Phishing Sties Two phishing sites may use very different backends, even if the site itself appears to be visually very similar. Phishing kits are often copied and modified, leading to sites using similar visual tricks on the user facing site, but very different backends to host the sites and reporting data to the miscreant. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20Tale%20of%20Two%20Phishing%20Sites/31810 A Phihsing Tale of DOH and DNS MX Abuse Infoblox discovered a new variant of the Meerkat phishing kit that uses DoH in Javascript to discover MX records, and generate better customized phishing pages. https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/a-phishing-tale-of-doh-and-dns-mx-abuse/ Using OpenID Connect for SSH Cloudflare opensourced it's OPKSSH too. It integrates SSO systems supporting OpenID connect with SSH. https://github.com/openpubkey/opkssh/

Sitecore "thumbnailsaccesstoken" Deserialization Scans (and some new reports) CVE-2025-27218 Our honeypots detected a deserialization attack against the CMS Sitecore using a thumnailaccesstoken header. The underlying vulnerability was patched in January, and security firm Searchlight Cyber revealed details about this vulnerability a couple of weeks ago. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Sitecore%20%22thumbnailsaccesstoken%22%20Deserialization%20Scans%20%28and%20some%20new%20reports%29%20CVE-2025-27218/31806 Blasting Past Webp Google s Project Zero revealed details how the NSO BLASTPASS exploit took advantage of a Webp image parsing vulnerability in iOS. This zero-click attack was employed in targeted attack back in 2023 and Apple patched the underlying vulnerability in September 2023. But this is the first byte by byte description showing how the attack worked. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/03/blasting-past-webp.html Splunk Vulnerabilities Splunk patched about a dozen of vulnerabilities. None of them are rated critical, but a vulnerability rated High allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary code. https://advisory.splunk.com/ Firefox 0-day Patched Mozilla patched a sandbox escape vulnerability that is already being exploited. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2025-19/

Leveraging CNNs and Entropy-Based Feature Selection to Identify Potential Malware Artifacts of Interest This diary explores a novel methodology for classifying malware by integrating entropy-driven feature selection with a specialized Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Motivated by the increasing obfuscation tactics used by modern malware authors, we will focus on capturing high-entropy segments within files, regions most likely to harbor malicious functionality, and feeding these distinct byte patterns into our model. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Leveraging%20CNNs%20and%20Entropy-Based%20Feature%20Selection%20to%20Identify%20Potential%20Malware%20Artifacts%20of%20Interest/31790 Malware found on npm infecting local package with reverse shell Researchers at Reversinglabs found two malicious NPM packages, ethers-provider2, and ethers-providerz that patch the well known (and not malicious) ethers package to add a reverse shell and downloader. https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/malicious-npm-patch-delivers-reverse-shell Google Patched Google Chrome 0-day Google patched a vulnerability in Chrome that was already exploited in attacks against media and educational organizations in Russia https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_25.html

XWiki Search Vulnerablity Exploit Attempts (CVE-2024-3721) Our honeypot detected an increase in exploit attempts for an XWiki command injection vulnerablity. The vulnerability was patched last April, but appears to be exploited more these last couple days. The vulnerability affects the search feature and allows the attacker to inject Groovy code templates. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/X-Wiki%20Search%20Vulnerability%20exploit%20attempts%20%28CVE-2024-3721%29/31800 Correction: FBI Image Converter Warning The FBI's Denver office warned of online file converters, not downloadable conversion tools https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/denver/news/fbi-denver-warns-of-online-file-converter-scam VMWare Vulnerability Broadcom released a fix for a VMWare Tools vulnerability. The vulnerability allows users of a Windows virtual machine to escalate privileges within the machine. https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25518 Draytek Reboots Over the weekend, users started reporting Draytek routers rebooting and getting stuck in a reboot loop. Draytek now published advise as to how to fix the problem. https://faq.draytek.com.au/docs/draytek-routers-rebooting-how-to-solve-this-issue/ Microsoft Managemnt Console Exploit CVE-2025-26633 TrendMicro released details showing how the MMC vulnerability Microsoft patched as part of its patch tuesday this month was exploited. https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/c/cve-2025-26633-water-gamayun.html

Privacy Aware Bots A botnet is using privacy as well as CSRF prevention headers to better blend in with normal browsers. However, in the process they may make it actually easier to spot them. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Privacy%20Aware%20Bots/31796 Critical Ingress Nightmare Vulnerability ingress-nginx fixed four new vulnerabilities, one of which may lead to a Kubernetes cluster compromise. Note that at the time I am making this live, not all of the URLs below are available yet, but I hope they will be available shortly after publishing this podcast https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/critical-ingressnightmare-vulns-kubernetes-environments https://www.wiz.io/blog/ingress-nginx-kubernetes-vulnerabilities https://kubernetes.io/blog/ FBI Warns of File Converter Scams File converters may include malicious ad ons. Be careful where you get your software from. https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/denver/news/fbi-denver-warns-of-online-file-converter-scam VSCode Extension Includes Ransomware https://x.com/ReversingLabs/status/1902355043065500145

Critical Next.js Vulnerability CVE-2025-29927 A critical vulnerability in how the x-middleware-subrequest header is verified may lead to bypassing authorization in Next.js applications. https://zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and-things/nextjs-and-the-corrupt-middleware https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-f82v-jwr5-mffw https://www.runzero.com/blog/next-js/ Microsoft Trust Signing Service Abused Attackers abut the Microsoft Trust Signing Service, a service meant to help developers create signed software, to obtain short lived signatures for malware. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-trust-signing-service-abused-to-code-sign-malware/

Some New Data Feeds and Little Incident We started offering additional data feeds, and an SEO spamer attempted to make us change a link from an old podcast episode. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Some%20new%20Data%20Feeds%2C%20and%20a%20little%20%22incident%22./31786 Veeam Deserialization Vulnerability Veeam released details regarding the latest vulnerablity in Veeam, pointing out the insufficient patch applied to a prior deserialization vulnerability. https://labs.watchtowr.com/by-executive-order-we-are-banning-blacklists-domain-level-rce-in-veeam-backup-replication-cve-2025-23120/ IBM AIX Vulnerablity The AIX NIM service is vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7186621 thanks Chris Mosby for Spotify comment

Exploit Attempts for Cisco Smart Licensing Utility CVE-2024-20439 CVE-2024-20440 Attackers added last September's Cisco Smart Licensing Utility vulnerability to their toolset. These attacks orginate most likely from botnets and the same attackers are scanning for a wide range of additional vulnerabilities. The vulnerability is a static credential issue and trivial to exploit after the credentials were published last fall. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploit%20Attempts%20for%20Cisco%20Smart%20Licensing%20Utility%20CVE-2024-20439%20and%20CVE-2024-20440/31782 Legacy Driver Exploitation Through Bypassing Certificate Verification Ahnlab documented a new type of "bring your own vulnerable driver" vulnerability. In this case, an old driver used by an anit-malware and anti-rootkit system can be used to shut down arbitrary processeses, including security related processeses. https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/86881/ Synology Vulnerability Updates Synology updates some security advisories it release last year adding addition details and vulnerable systems. https://www.synology.com/en-global/security/advisory/Synology_SA_24_20 https://www.synology.com/en-global/security/advisory/Synology_SA_24_24

Python Bot Delivered Through DLL Side-Loading A "normal", but vulnerable to DLL side-loading PDF reader may be used to launch additional exploit code https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Python%20Bot%20Delivered%20Through%20DLL%20Side-Loading/31778 Tomcat RCE Correction To exploit the Tomcat RCE I mentioned yesterday, two non-default configuration options must be selected by the victim. https://x.com/dkx02668274/status/1901893656316969308 SAML Roulette: The Hacker Always Wins This Portswigger blog explains in detail how to exploit the ruby-saml vulnerablity against GitLab. https://portswigger.net/research/saml-roulette-the-hacker-always-wins Windows Shortcut Zero Day Exploit Attackers are currently taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in how Windows displays Shortcut (.lnk file) details. Trendmicro explains how the attack works and provides PoC code. Microsoft is not planning to fix this issue https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/c/windows-shortcut-zero-day-exploit.html

Static Analysis of GUID Encoded Shellcode Didier explains how to decode shell code embeded as GUIDs in malware, and how to feed the result to his tool 1768.py which will extract Cobal Strike configuration information from the code. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Static%20Analysis%20of%20GUID%20Encoded%20Shellcode/31774 SAMLStorm: Critical Authentication Bypass in xml-crypto and Node.js libraries xml-crypto, a library use in Node.js applications to decode XML and support SAML, has found to parse comments incorrectly leading to several SAML vulnerabilities. https://workos.com/blog/samlstorm One PUT Request to Own Tomcat: CVE-2025-24813 RCE is in the Wild A just made public deserialization vulnerablity in Tomcat is already being exploited. Contributing to the rapid exploit release is the similarity of this vulnerability to other Java deserializtion vulnerabilities. https://lab.wallarm.com/one-put-request-to-own-tomcat-cve-2025-24813-rce-is-in-the-wild/ CVE-2025-24813 CSS Abuse for Evasion and Tracking Attackers are using cascading stylesheets to evade detection and enable more stealthy tracking of users https://blog.talosintelligence.com/css-abuse-for-evasion-and-tracking/

Mirai Bot Now Incorporating Malformed DrayTek Vigor Router Exploits One of the many versions of the Mirai botnet added some new exploit strings attempting to take advantage of an old DrayTek Vigor Router vulnerability, but they got the URL wrong. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Mirai%20Bot%20now%20incroporating%20%28malformed%3F%29%20DrayTek%20Vigor%20Router%20Exploits/31770 Compromised GitHub Action The popular GitHub action tj-actions/changed-files was compromised and leaks credentials via the action logs https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/harden-runner-detection-tj-actions-changed-files-action-is-compromised ruby-saml authentication bypass A confusion in how to parse SAML messages between two XML parsers used by Ruby leads to an authentication bypass in saml-ruby. https://github.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone-bypassing-saml-sso-authentication-with-parser-differentials/ GitHub Fake Security Alerts Fake GitHub security alerts are used to trick package maintainers into adding OAUTH privileges to malicious apps. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-security-alert-issues-on-github-use-oauth-app-to-hijack-accounts/

File Hashes Analysis with Power BI Guy explains in this diary how to analyze Cowrie honeypot file hashes using Microsoft's BI tool and what you may be able to discover using this tool. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/File%20Hashes%20Analysis%20with%20Power%20BI%20from%20Data%20Stored%20in%20DShield%20SIEM/31764 Apache Camel Vulnerability Apache released two patches for Camel in close succession. Initially, the vulnerability was only addressed for headers, but as Akamai discovered, it can also be exploited via query parameters. This vulnerability is trivial to exploit and leads to arbitrary code execution. https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/march-apache-camel-vulnerability-detections-and-mitigations Juniper Patches Junos Vulnerability Juniper patches an already exploited vulnerability in JunOS. However, to exploit the vulnerability, and attacker already needs privileged access. By exploiting the vulnerability, an attacker may completely compromised the device. https://supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/2025-03-Out-of-Cycle-Security-Bulletin-Junos-OS-A-local-attacker-with-shell-access-can-execute-arbitrary-code-CVE-2025-21590?language=en_US AMI Security Advisory AMI patched three vulnerabilities. One of the, an authentication bypass in Redfish, allows for a complete system compromise without authentication and is rated with a CVSS score of 10.0. https://go.ami.com/hubfs/Security%20Advisories/2025/AMI-SA-2025003.pdf

Log4J Scans for VMWare Hyhbrid Cloud Extensions An attacker is scanning various login pages, including the authentication feature in the VMWare HCX REST API for Log4j vulnerabilities. The attack submits the exploit string as username, hoping to trigger the vulnerability as Log4j logs the username https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Scans%20for%20VMWare%20Hybrid%20Cloud%20Extension%20%28HCX%29%20API%20(Log4j%20-%20not%20brute%20forcing)/31762 Patch Tuesday Fallout Yesterday's Apple patch may re-activate Apple Intelligence for users who earlier disabled it. Microsoft is offering support for users whos USB printers started printing giberish after a January patch was applies. https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/11/ios-18-3-2-apple-intelligence-auto-on/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-10-22h2#usb-printers-might-print-random-text-with-the-january-2025-preview-update Adobe Updates Adobe updated seven different products, including Adobe Acrobat. The Acrobat vulnerability may lead to remote code execution and Adobe considers the vulnerablities critical. https://helpx.adobe.com/security/security-bulletin.html Medusa Ransomware CISA and partner agencies released details about the Medusa Ransomware. The document includes many details useful to defenders. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa25-071a Zoom Update Zoom released a critical update fixing a number of remote code execution vulnerabilities. https://www.zoom.com/en/trust/security-bulletin/ FreeType Library Vulnerability https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2025-27363

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft Patched six already exploited vulnerabilities today. In addition, the patches included a critical patch for Microsoft's DNS server and about 50 additional patches. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft%20Patch%20Tuesday%3A%20March%202025/31756 Apple Updates iOS/macOS Apple released an update to address a single, already exploited, vulnerability in WebKit. This vulnerability affects iOS, macOS and VisionOS. https://support.apple.com/en-us/100100 Expressif Response to ESP32 Debug Commands Expressif released a statement commenting on the recent release of a paper alledging "Backdoors" in ESP32 chipsets. According to Expressif, these commands are debug commands and not reachable directly via Bluetooth. https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Response_ESP32_Bluetooth

Shellcode Encoded in UUIDs Attackers are using UUIDs to encode Shellcode. The 128 Bit (or 16 Bytes) encoded in each UUID are converted to shell code to implement a cobalt strike beacon https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Shellcode%20Encoded%20in%20UUIDs/31752 Moxa CVE-2024-12297 Expanded to PT Switches Moxa in January first releast an update to address a fronted authorizaation logic disclosure vulnerability. It now updated the advisory and included the PT series switches as vulenrable. https://www.moxa.com/en/support/product-support/security-advisory/mpsa-241408-cve-2024-12297-frontend-authorization-logic-disclosure-vulnerability-identified-in-pt-switches Opentext Insufficently Protected Credentials https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000037455?language=en_US Livewire Volt API vulnerability https://github.com/livewire/volt/security/advisories/GHSA-v69f-5jxm-hwvv

Commonly Probed Webshell URLs Many attackers deploy web shells to gain a foothold on vulnerable web servers. These webshells can also be taken over by parasitic exploits. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Commonly%20Probed%20Webshell%20URLs/31748 Undocumented ESP32 Commands A recent conference presentation by Tarlogic revealed several "backdoors" or undocumented features in the commonly used ESP32 Chipsets. Tarlogic also released a toolkit to make it easier to audit chipsets and find these hiddent commands. https://www.tarlogic.com/news/backdoor-esp32-chip-infect-ot-devices/ Camera Off: Akira deploys ransomware via Webcam The Akira ransomware group was recently observed infecting a network with Ransomware by taking advantage of a webcam. https://www.s-rminform.com/latest-thinking/camera-off-akira-deploys-ransomware-via-webcam

Latest Google Chrome Update Encourages UBlock Origin Removal The latest update to Google Chrome not only disabled the UBlock Origin ad blocker, but also guides users to uninstall the extension instead of re-enabling it. https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1j2ec76/ublock_origin_is_gone/ Critical Kibana Update Elastic published a critical Kibana update patching a prototype polution vulnerability that would allow arbitrary code execution for users with the "Viewer" role. https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-17-3-security-update-esa-2025-06/375441 Certified PrePw0n3d Android TV Sticks Wired is reporting of over a million Android TV sticks that were found to be pre-infected with adware https://www.wired.com/story/android-tv-streaming-boxes-china-backdoor/ SANS.edu Research Paper Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are among the most challenging to detect in enterprise environments, often mimicking authorized privileged access prior to their actions on objectives. https://www.sans.edu/cyber-research/identifying-advanced-persistent-threat-activity-through-threat-informed-detection-engineering-enhancing-alert-visibility-enterprises/

DShield Traffic Analysis using ELK The "DShield SIEM" includes an ELK dashboard as part of the Honeypot. Learn how to find traffic of interest with this tool. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/DShield%20Traffic%20Analysis%20using%20ELK/31742 Zen and the Art of Microcode Hacking Google released details, including a proof of concept exploit, showing how to take advantage of the recently patched AMD microcode vulnerability https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking CVE-2024-56161 VIM Vulnerability An attacker may execute arbitrary code by tricking a user to open a crafted tar file in VIM https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-wfmf-8626-q3r3 Snil Mail Fake Ransom Note A copy cat group is impersonating ransomware actors. The group sends snail mail to company executives claiming to have stolen company data and threatening to leak it unless a payment is made. https://www.guidepointsecurity.com/blog/snail-mail-fail-fake-ransom-note-campaign-preys-on-fear/

Romanian Distillery Scanning for SMTP Credentials A particular attacker expanded the scope of their leaked credential file scans. In addition to the usual ".env" style files, it is not looking for specific SMTP related credential files. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Romanian%20Distillery%20Scanning%20for%20SMTP%20Credentials/31736 Tool Updates: mac-robber.py This update of mac-robber.py fixes issues with symlinks. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Tool%20update%3A%20mac-robber.py/31738 CVE-2025-1723 Account takeover vulnerability in ADSelfService Plus CVE-2025-1723 describes a vulnerability caused by session mishandling in ADSelfService Plus that could allow unauthorized access to user enrollment data when MFA was not enabled for ADSelfService Plus login. https://www.manageengine.com/products/self-service-password/advisory/CVE-2025-1723.html Android March Update Google released an update for Android addressing two already exploited vulnerabilities and several critical issues. https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-03-01 PayPal's no-code-checkout Abuse Attackers are using PayPal's no-code-checkout feature is being abused by scammers to host PayPal tech support scam pages right within the PayPal.com domain. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/scams/2025/02/paypals-no-code-checkout-abused-by-scammers Broadcom Fixes three VMWare VCenter Vulnerabilities https://github.com/vmware/vcf-security-and-compliance-guidelines/tree/main/security-advisories/vmsa-2025-0004

Mark of the Web: Some Technical Details Windows implements the "Mark of the Web" (MotW) as an alternate data stream that contains not just the "zoneid" of where the file came from, but may include other data like the exact URL and referrer. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Mark%20of%20the%20Web%3A%20Some%20Technical%20Details/31732 Havoc Sharepoint with Microsoft Graph API A recent phishing attack observed by Fortinet uses a simple HTML email to trick a user into copy pasting powershell into their system to execute additional code. Most of the malware interaction uses a Sharepoint site via Microsoft's Graph API futher hiding the malicious traffic https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/havoc-sharepoint-with-microsoft-graph-api-turns-into-fud-c2 Paragon Partition Manager Exploit A vulnerable Paragon Partition Manager has been user recently to escalate privileges for ransomware deployment. Even if you to not have PAragon installed: An attacker may just "bring the vulnerable driver" to your system. https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/726882

Common Crawl includes Common Leaks The "Common Crawl" dataset, a large dataset created by spidering website, contains as expected many API keys and other secrets. This data is often used to train large language models https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/research-finds-12-000-live-api-keys-and-passwords-in-deepseek-s-training-data Github Repositories Exposed by Copilot As it is well known, Github's Copilot is using data from public GitHub repositories to train it's model. However, it appears that repositories who were briefly left open and later made private have been included as well, allowing Copilot users to retrieve files from these repositories. https://www.lasso.security/blog/lasso-major-vulnerability-in-microsoft-copilot MITRE Caldera Framework Allows Unauthenticated Code Execution The MITRE Caldera adversary emulation framework allows for unauthenticted code execution by allowing attackers to specify compiler options https://medium.com/@mitrecaldera/mitre-caldera-security-advisory-remote-code-execution-cve-2025-27364-5f679e2e2a0e modsecurity Rule Bypass Attackers may bypass the modsecurity web application firewall by prepending encoded characters with 0. https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-42w7-rmv5-4x2j

Njrat Compaign Using Microsoft dev Tunnels: A recent version of the Njrat remote admin tool is taking advantage of Microsoft's developer tunnels (devtunnels.ms) as a command and control channel. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Njrat%20Campaign%20Using%20Microsoft%20Dev%20Tunnels/31724 NrootTag Apple FindMy Abuse Malware could use a weakness in the keys used for Apple FindMy to abuse it to track victims. Updates were released with iOS 18.2, but to solve the issue the vast majority of Apple users must update. https://nroottag.github.io/ 360XSS: Mass Website Exploitation via Virtual Tour Framework The Krpano VR library which is often used to implement 3D virtual tours on real estate websites, is currently being abused to inject spam messages. The XSS vulnerabilty could allow attackers to inject even more malicious JavaScript. https://olegzay.com/360xss/ SANS.edu Research: Proof is in the Pudding: EDR Configuration Versus Ransomware. Benjamin Powell https://www.sans.edu/cyber-research/proof-pudding-edr-configuration-versus-ransomware/

Attacker of of Ephemeral Ports Attackers often use ephermeral ports to reach out to download additional resources or exfiltrate data. This can be used, with care, to detect possible compromises. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Malware%20Source%20Servers%3A%20The%20Threat%20of%20Attackers%20Using%20Ephemeral%20Ports%20as%20Service%20Ports%20to%20Upload%20Data/31710 Compromised Visal Studio Code Extension downloaded by Millions Amit Assaraf identified a likely compromised Visual Studio Code theme that was installed by millions of potential victims. Amit did not disclose the exact malicious behaviour, but is asking for victims to contact them for details. https://medium.com/@amitassaraf/a-wolf-in-dark-mode-the-malicious-vs-code-theme-that-fooled-millions-85ed92b4bd26 ByBit Theft Due to Compromised Developer Workstation ByBit and Safe{Wallet} disclosed that the record breaking ethereum theft was due to a compromised Safe{Wallet} developer workstation. A replaced JavaScript file targeted ByBit and altered a transaction signed by ByBit. https://x.com/benbybit/status/1894768736084885929 https://x.com/safe/status/1894768522720350673 PoC for NAKIVO Backup Replication Vulnerability This vulnerability allows the compromise of NAKIVO backup systems. The vulnerability was patched silently in November, and never disclosed by NAKIVO. Instead, WatchTowr now disloses details including a proof of concept exploit. https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-best-security-is-when-we-all-agree-to-keep-everything-secret-except-the-secrets-nakivo-backup-replication-cve-2024-48248/ OpenH264 Vulnerability https://github.com/cisco/openh264/security/advisories/GHSA-m99q-5j7x-7m9x rsync vulnerability exploited https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

Massive Botnet Targets M365 with Password Spraying A large botnet is targeting service accounts in M365 with credentials stolen by infostealer malware. https://securityscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MassiveBotnet-Report_022125_03.pdf Mixing up Public and Private Keys in OpenID The complex OpenID specificiation and the flexibility it supports enables careless administrators to publich private keys instead or in addition to public keys https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/909-Mixing-up-Public-and-Private-Keys-in-OpenID-Connect-deployments.html Healthcare Malware Hunt Part 1: Medial images are often encoded in the DICOM format, an image format unique to medical imaging. Patients looking for viewers for DICOM images are tricked into downloading malware. https://www.forescout.com/blog/healthcare-malware-hunt-part-1-silver-fox-apt-targets-philips-dicom-viewers/