

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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Oct 30, 2018 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, October 30th 2018
Maldoc Duplicating PowerShell
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Maldoc+Duplicating+PowerShell+Prior+to+Use/24254/
New File Types Emerge in Malware Spam Attachments
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/same-old-yet-brand-new-new-file-types-emerge-in-malware-spam-attachments/
Malicious Mac Crypto Currency Tracker Installs Backdoor
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/10/mac-cryptocurrency-ticker-app-installs-backdoors/
Sandbox For Windows Defender
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/10/26/windows-defender-antivirus-can-now-run-in-a-sandbox/

Oct 29, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Monday, October 29th 2018
Dissecting Malicious Office Documents in Linux
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Dissecting+Malicious+Office+Documents+with+Linux/24248/
Analyzing Compressed RTF Documents
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Detecting+Compressed+RTF/24250/
SystemD DHCPv6 Remote Code Executing Vulnerability
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-15688
Cryptominers Scan for Docker Engine
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/misconfigured-container-abused-to-deliver-cryptocurrency-mining-malware
DemonBot Targeting Hadoop
https://blog.radware.com/security/2018/10/new-demonbot-discovered/

Oct 26, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Friday, October 26th 2018
Scam Calls Targeting Chinese Living in the US
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Fake+BankPost+Office+Phone+Calls+Targeting+Chinese+Immigrants/24244/
X.org Privilege Elevation Flaw
https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2018-October/002927.html
Remote Videos in Office Documents
https://blog.cymulate.com/abusing-microsoft-office-online-video
Mac Malware Injects Ads
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/10/mac-malware-intercepts-encrypted-web-traffic-for-ad-injection/

Oct 25, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, October 25th 2018
Reversing AutoIT
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Diving+into+Malicious+AutoIT+Code/24238/
Arcserve Vulnerabilities
https://www.digitaldefense.com/blog/zero-day-alerts/arcserve-disclosure/
WebExec Vulnerability
https://webexec.org/
More ALPC Flaws from Sandbox Escaper
https://twitter.com/SandboxEscaper/status/1054744201244692485
https://twitter.com/mkolsek/status/1054794984908562432

Oct 24, 2018 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, October 24th 2018
Malware Uses Decoy Picture
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Malicious+Powershell+using+a+Decoy+Picture/24234/
DNS over HTTPS Pushback
https://twitter.com/paulvixie/status/1053765281917661184
Signal Desktop Leaves Encryption Key Exposed
https://twitter.com/nathanielrsuchy
Firefox 63 Allows Less Tracking
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/23/firefox-63-lets-users-block-tracking-cookies/

Oct 23, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, October 23rd 2018
MSG Files: Compressed RTF
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/MSG+Files+Compressed+RTF/24228/
FreeRTOS TCP/IP Stack Vulnerabilities
https://blog.zimperium.com/freertos-tcpip-stack-vulnerabilities-put-wide-range-devices-risk-compromise-smart-homes-critical-infrastructure-systems/
VLC/Live555 RTSP Server Vulnerability
https://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2018-0684
Microsoft Yammer Update
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8569#ID0EGB

Oct 22, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Monday, October 22nd 2018
MacOS LaunchAgent
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Beyond+good+ol+LaunchAgent+part+0/24230/
TLS Session Tracking
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.07304.pdf
jQuery File Upload Plugin
https://blogs.akamai.com/sitr/2018/10/having-the-security-rug-pulled-out-from-under-you.html
Drupal Update
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-006

Oct 19, 2018 • 4min
ISC StormCast for Friday, October 19th 2018
Cisco Patches
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/Search.x?publicationTypeIDs=1&firstPublishedStartDate=2018%2F10%2F17&firstPublishedEndDate=2018%2F10%2F17&lastPublishedStartDate=2018%2F10%2F17&lastPublishedEndDate=2018%2F10%2F17
51% Attack Against Crypto Currencies
https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/9m1uuj/if_i_livestreamed_the_setup_and_execution_of/
VMWare Patch
https://www.vmware.com/au/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0026.html

Oct 18, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, October 18th 2018
Abandoned "NewShareCount" Twitter Counter abused
https://blog.sucuri.net/2018/10/malicious-redirects-from-newsharecounts-com-tweet-counter.html
Multiple D-Link Vulnerabilities
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Oct/36
RID Hacking in Windows
https://www.romhack.io/slides/RomHack%202018%20-%20Sebastian%20Castro%20-%20Windows%20RID%20Hijacking:%20Maintaining%20Access%20on%20Windows%20Machines.pdf

Oct 17, 2018 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, October 17th 2018
Oracle CPU
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
libssh vulnerability
https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2018-10933.txt
Vending Machine Mobile App Compromise
https://hackernoon.com/how-i-hacked-modern-vending-machines-43f4ae8decec
Browsers Announce Timeline to Discontinue TLS1.0/1.1 support
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/10/15/modernizing-tls-edge-ie11/
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/modernizing-transport-security.html
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/15/removing-old-versions-of-tls/
https://webkit.org/blog/8462/deprecation-of-legacy-tls-1-0-and-1-1-versions/


