

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 .
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Jan 18, 2017 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, January 19th 2017
US-Cert Considers Netbios/SMBv1 Harmfull
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2017/01/16/SMB-Security-Best-Practices
IPv6 Atomic Fragments Can Lead to DDoS Attack
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8021
Facebook Was Affectd by ImageTragick Flaw
http://4lemon.ru/2017-01-17_facebook_imagetragick_remote_code_execution.html
Malwarebytes Identifies Old Mac Backdoor
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/01/new-mac-backdoor-using-antiquated-code/
Oracle Quarterly Critical Patch Update
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html#AppendixJAVA

Jan 17, 2017 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, January 18th 2017
domain_stats.py: A Web API For SEIM Phishing Hunts;
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/domainstatspy+a+web+api+for+SEIM+phishing+hunts/21943/
Mutiple RCE in ZyXEL/Billion/True Online Routers
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/40
Dovecot Passes Security Audit
https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/4/4d/Dovecot-report.pdf
Dutch Web Developers Left Backdoors Behind
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/17/police_warn_of_dutch_developer_who_built_backdoors_for_carding/
Mobile Applications Contain Secrets
https://hackernoon.com/we-reverse-engineered-16k-apps-heres-what-we-found-51bdf3b456bb

Jan 16, 2017 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, January 17th 2017
Whitelisting File Extensions in Apache
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Whitelisting+File+Extensions+in+Apache/21937/
Wordpress 4.7.1 Updates PHPMailer
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/01/wordpress-4-7-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
Tricky Phishing Attacks Harvesting Google Passwords
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/01/gmail-phishing-data-uri/
More Refined Browser Fingerprinting Via GPU Features
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4s900Byvv1ibW5uc1NiU2g3R3c/view

Jan 15, 2017 • 7min
ISC StormCast for Monday, January 16th 2017
Backup Files Are Good if They are Outside Your Web Servers Document Root
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Backup+Files+Are+Good+but+Can+Be+Evil/21935/
Exploiting Apache Server Status
http://blog.mazinahmed.net/2017/01/exploiting-misconfigured-apache-server-status-instances.html
WhatsApp Backdoor Controversy
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages
https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/
Hardening Windows 10
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/01/13/hardening-windows-10-with-zero-day-exploit-mitigations/
Injecting JavaScript Into PDFs
http://insert-script.blogspot.in/2016/10/pdf-how-to-steal-pdfs-by-injecting.html

Jan 13, 2017 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Friday, January 13th 2017
System Resources Utilization Monitor #SRUM
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/System+Resource+Utilization+Monitor/21927/
Docker Fixes Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/21
Taking Over Expired Name Servers
https://thehackerblog.com/respect-my-authority-hijacking-broken-nameservers-to-compromise-your-target/
Updated Certificate Revocation Data
https://isc.sans.edu/crls.html
Shadow Broker Releasing More Tools and Going Dark
https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/security-alert-the-shadow-brokers-windows-hacking-tools/
Extracting Fingerprints from Selfies
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/11/national/crime-legal/researchers-warn-fingerprint-theft-peace-sign/

Jan 12, 2017 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, January 12th 2017
Hancitor/Pny/Vawtrak installed by Malicious Word Document in Fake Parking Ticket E-Mail
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/HancitorPonyVawtrak+malspam/21919/
Godaddy Revokes > 6,000 SSL Certs After Validation Bug
https://www.godaddy.com/garage/godaddy/information-about-ssl-bug/
DVR Master Password List Leaked
https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/leaked-dvr-creds-added-to-the-iot-fail-list/
Autofill Enables Information Leakage
https://github.com/anttiviljami/browser-autofill-phishing

Jan 11, 2017 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, January 11th 2017
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/January+2017+Microsoft+Patch+Tuesday/21915/
Adobe Patch Tuesday Summary
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Adobe+January+2017+Patches/21917/
Port 37777 "MapTable" Requests
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Port+37777+MapTable+Requests/21913/
CVE 2016-7200/7201 Exploit Included in Sundown Exploit Kit
http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2017/01/CVE-2016-7200-7201.html

Jan 9, 2017 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, January 10th 2017
Damn Vulnerable Web Sockets (DVWS) Demonstrates WebSocket Vulnerabilities
https://github.com/interference-security/DVWS
St. Jude Medical Patches Vulnerable Cardiac Devices
https://threatpost.com/st-jude-medical-patches-vulnerable-cardiac-devices/122955/
Cracking Hashes of Passwords 12 Characters and Longer
http://www.netmux.com/blog/cracking-12-character-above-passwords
VNC Library Update
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3753

Jan 9, 2017 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Monday, January 9th 2017
Careful With Security Tools That Submit Files to Virustotal
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Great+Misadventures+of+Security+Vendors+Absurd+Sandboxing+Edition/21895/
Vulnerable Security Tools Can Be Used Against You
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Using+Security+Tools+to+Compromize+a+Network/21903/
Elaborate Ransomware Attacks
http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/news/department-of-education-ransomware-alert-jan17
E-Mail and iTunes Popup Extortion
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/mac-the-basics/2017/01/tech-support-scam-page-attempts-denial-of-service-via-mail-app/

Jan 6, 2017 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Friday, January 6th 2017
Google.com.br DNS Hijack
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/googlecombr-hacked-renato-marinho
Attackers Use Stolen Passwords To Take Over Spreadshirt.com Accounts.
https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Angriff-auf-Spreadshirt-Konten-3589579.html (sorry, only in German)
Ransomware Adding DDoS Component
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firecrypt-ransomware-comes-with-a-ddos-component/
Old Malware Returning in Targeted Attacks
https://blogs.forcepoint.com/security-labs/mm-core-memory-backdoor-returns-bigboss-and-sillygoose


