

SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast (Stormcast)
Johannes B. 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. You may submit questions and comments via our contact form at https://isc.sans.edu/contact.html .
Episodes
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Jan 29, 2018 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Monday, January 29th 2018
Analyzing a Word Document Used in a Pentest
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Is+this+a+pentest/23283/
Analyzing BITS Activity
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Investigating+Microsoft+BITS+Activity/23281/
CryptoJacking on YouTube due to Malicious Ads
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/malvertising-campaign-abuses-googles-doubleclick-to-deliver-cryptocurrency-miners/
Coincheck Hack Nets 400M USD
https://coincheck.com/en/blog/4673
PHPBB Mirror Compromissed
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2456896
Microsoft Disables Sepctre Variant 2 Patches
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4078130/update-to-disable-mitigation-against-spectre-variant-2

Jan 25, 2018 • 18min
ISC StormCast for Friday, January 26th 2018
Ransomware As a Service
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Ransomware+as+a+Service/23277/
libcurl Vulnerability
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/94
Hide 'N Seek IoT Botnet
https://labs.bitdefender.com/2018/01/new-hide-n-seek-iot-botnet-using-custom-built-peer-to-peer-communication-spotted-in-the-wild/
Container Intrusions: Assessing the Efficacy of Intrusion Detection and Analysis Methods for Linux Container Environments
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/detection/container-intrusions-assessing-efficacy-intrusion-detection-analysis-methods-linux-container-environments-38245

Jan 25, 2018 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, January 25th 2018
RTF Files For Hancitor Utilize Exploit for CVE-2017-11882
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/RTF+files+for+Hancitor+utilize+exploit+for+CVE201711882/23271/
Electron Fixes Protocol Handlers Flaw
https://electronjs.org/blog/protocol-handler-fix
Xerox Workcenters Fudge Numbers
http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning?
Tracking Users Using CSS
https://github.com/jbtronics/CrookedStyleSheets

Jan 24, 2018 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, January 24th 2018
Apple Patches Everything, Again
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Apple+Updates+Everything+Again/23269/
OpenSSL Introduces its Version of a "Patch Tuesday"
https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/01/18/f2f-london/
"Rapid" Ransomware
https://id-ransomware.blogspot.ru/2018/01/rapid-ransomware.html (Russian)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/667032/rapid-ransomware-rapid-paymeme-how-recovery-filestxt-support-topic/page-2

Jan 23, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, January 23rd 2018
HTTPs on Every Port
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/HTTPS+on+every+port/23261/
Curl over TOR
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Retrieving+malware+over+Tor/23257/
Spectre/Meltdown Microcode Patch Problems
https://newsroom.intel.com/news/root-cause-of-reboot-issue-identified-updated-guidance-for-customers-and-partners/
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/21/192
DNS Rebinding Attacks Against Geth
https://ret2got.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/how-your-ethereum-can-be-stolen-using-dns-rebinding/
Chinese Quantum Cryptography Satellite Link Transmits Intercontinental Videolink
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.030501

Jan 22, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Monday, January 22nd 2018
Analyzing an RTF Phishing Document
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/An+RTF+phish/23255/
Satori Variant Steals ETH from Miners
http://blog.netlab.360.com/art-of-steal-satori-variant-is-robbing-eth-bitcoin-by-replacing-wallet-address-en/
Evrial Trojan Modifies Copy / Pasted Bitcoin Addresses
https://twitter.com/malwrhunterteam/status/953313514629853184
Legal Challenges of Bug Bounties
https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/US-Bug-Bountys-lassen-gute-Hacker-in-die-Falle-tappen-3946508.html

Jan 19, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Friday, January 19th 2018
Oracle E-Business Suite Server Can Be Attackt via WebLogic
https://www.onapsis.com/blog/oracle-january-cpu-analysis-64-patches-affect-business-critical-applications
Microsoft Resumes Patches for AMD Systems
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution
Speculations About Yet Another CPU Attack
https://skyfallattack.com
Smiths Medfusion 4000 Vulnerabilities
https://github.com/sgayou/medfusion-4000-research/blob/master/doc/README.md#summary

Jan 18, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, January 18th 2018
Reviewing the Spam Filters: Malspam Pushing Gozi-ISFB
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Reviewing+the+spam+filters+Malspam+pushing+GoziISFB/23245/
Auditing Secure USB Keys
https://www.j-michel.org/blog/2018/01/16/attacking-secure-usb-keys-behind-the-scene
Malicious Open Graph title Tag Crashes iMessage
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/16/malicious-link-ios-mac-freezes/
BIND Fixes DoS Vulnerablity
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01542

Jan 9, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, January 9th 2018
WebLogic Flaw Used to Install Monero Crypto Coin Miner
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Campaign+is+using+a+recently+released+WebLogic+exploit+to+deploy+a+Monero+miner/23191/
Fake Anti-Virus Pages Poppding Up Like Weeds
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Fake+antivirus+pages+popping+up+like+weeds/23207/
Apple Spectre/Meltdown Patches
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
Meltdown Patch Fallout
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Secure_Article/KB43600/?l=en_US&fs=Search&pn=1&atype=
https://forums.sandboxie.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=25114
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072699/january-3-2018-windows-security-updates-and-antivirus-software
WPA3 Announced
https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-security-enhancements

Jan 8, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Monday, January 8th 2018
Campaign is using a recently released WebLogic exploit to deploy a Monero miner
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Campaign+is+using+a+recently+released+WebLogic+exploit+to+deploy+a+Monero+miner/23191/
Misc News about Meltdown and Spectre
https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins
AMD Processor Flaw
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/12
Western Digital MyCloud Backdoor
http://gulftech.org/advisories/WDMyCloud%20Multiple%20Vulnerabilities/125


