

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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Mar 1, 2021 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Monday, March 1st, 2021
Pretending to be an Outlook Version Update
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Pretending+to+be+an+Outlook+Version+Update/27144/
Geolocating Satori Botnet Scanning Port 26
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/So+where+did+those+Satori+attacks+come+from/27140/
Alexa Skill Security
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_5A-1_23111_paper.pdf
TMobile Data Breach / SIM Swapping
https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20492859-t-mobile-feb-2021-bc-data-breach

Feb 26, 2021 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Friday, February 26th, 2021
Forensicating Azure VMs
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Forensicating+Azure+VMs/27136/
FriarFox Browser Extension Targeting GMail Accounts
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/ta413-leverages-new-friarfox-browser-extension-target-gmail-accounts-global
JSON Parser Inconsistencies
https://labs.bishopfox.com/tech-blog/an-exploration-of-json-interoperability-vulnerabilities
Apple MacOS Update
https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/comments/kge24m/dead_m1_mac_with_usbc_multiport_adapters/

Feb 25, 2021 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, February 25th, 2021
Malspam Pushes GuLoader for Remcos RAT
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Malspam+pushes+GuLoader+for+Remcos+RAT/27132/
vCenter Exploit / Vulnerability Details
https://swarm.ptsecurity.com/unauth-rce-vmware/#more-2477
DNS CNAME Tracking
https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/large-scale-analysis-of-dns-based-tracking-evasion-broad-data-leaks-included/
Cisco MSO Vulnerability
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-mso-authbyp-bb5GmBQv

Feb 24, 2021 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Qakbot In a Response to Full Disclosure Post
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Qakbot+in+a+response+to+Full+Disclosure+post/27130/
Firefox Total Cookie Protection
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/
VMWare ESXi / vCenter Server Update
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.html
Replacing Content in Signed PDFs
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_1B-4_24117_paper.pdf

Feb 23, 2021 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Unprotecting Malicious Documents For Inspection
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Unprotecting+Malicious+Documents+For+Inspection/27126/
Brave Browser DNS Leak
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/22/in_brief_security/
Telephony DoS
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2021/PSA210217

Feb 22, 2021 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) is Back in the Wild
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Dynamic+Data+Exchange+DDE+is+Back+in+the+Wild/27116/
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/DDE+and+oledump/27122/
macOS Malware "Prototype"
https://redcanary.com/blog/clipping-silver-sparrows-wings/
New Phishing Attack Identifed: Malformed URL Prefixes
https://www.greathorn.com/blog-new-phishing-attack-identified-malformed-url-prefixes/
Sonicwall SMA 100 Firmware Update
https://www.sonicwall.com/support/product-notification/additional-sma-100-series-10-x-and-9-x-firmware-updates-required-updated-feb-19-2-p-m-cst/210122173415410/

Feb 19, 2021 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Friday, February 19th, 2021
Malspam Pushes Trickbot gtag rob13
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Malspam+pushing+Trickbot+gtag+rob13/27112/
AppleJeus
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa21-048a
Python 3 Buffer Overflow
https://bugs.python.org/issue42938
Apple Platform Security Guide
https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web

Feb 18, 2021 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, February 18th, 2021
The new "LinkedInSecureMessage" Phish
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/The+new+LinkedInSecureMessage/27110/
Apple M1 Optimized Malware
https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x62.html
QNAP Surveilance Station Vulnerability
https://www.qnap.com/en/security-advisory/qsa-21-07
Masslogger Exfiltrates User Credentials
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2021/02/masslogger-cred-exfil.html

Feb 17, 2021 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
More Weirdness on TCP Port 26
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/More+weirdness+on+TCP+port+26/27106/
Microsoft Pulls Servicing Stack Update
https://threatpost.com/microsoft-windows-update-patch-tuesday/163981/
Network Monitoring Company Centreon Compromised
https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/uploads/CERTFR-2021-CTI-005.pdf
SHAREit Flaw Could Lead to Remote Code Execution
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/21/b/shareit-flaw-could-lead-to-remote-code-execution.html
VSCode NPM Extension RCE
https://github.com/jackadamson/CVE-2021-26700

Feb 16, 2021 • 7min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
Securing and Optimizing Networks Using pfSense Traffic Shaper to Combat Bufferbloat
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Securing+and+Optimizing+Networks+Using+pfSense+Traffic+Shaper+Limiters+to+Combat+Bufferbloat/27102/
Apple to Proxy Safe Browsing Requests
https://twitter.com/othermaciej/status/1359736220809531393
Power Outages and Some Network Outages as a Result
https://downdetector.com
Phone Scam Success Rates
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/02/15/lost-money-to-phone-scams/
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/02/12/sms-tax-scam-unmasked-bogus-but-believable-dont-fall-for-it/


