

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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Aug 7, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, August 7th 2018
Numeric Obfuscation
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Numeric+obfuscation+another+example/23960/
Crestron Touchscreen Vulnerability
https://blog.securitycompass.com/security-advisory-regarding-crestron-tsw-xx60-touch-panel-devices-9f1a71a926a5
Facebook Releases "Fizz" TLS 1.3 Library
https://github.com/facebookincubator/fizz

Aug 6, 2018 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Monday, August 6th 2018
New WPA Attack
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7717.html
Fake Techsupport Uses More Intelligent Call Routing
https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/tech-support-scam-call-optimization
HP Printer Updates
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06097712

Aug 3, 2018 • 7min
ISC StormCast for Friday, August 3rd 2018
Malware in Animated GIF Files
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/DHLthemed+malspam+reveals+embedded+malware+in+animated+gif/23944/
MikroTik Miner Botnet
https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Mass-MikroTik-Router-Infection-%E2%80%93-First-we-cryptojack-Brazil,-then-we-take-the-World-/
Microsoft Edge Vulnerability
https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/stealing-local-files-with-simple-html-file/

Aug 2, 2018 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, August 2nd 2018
Facebook Smishing Attack
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Facebook+Phishing+via+SMS/23940/
Port 52869 UPNP Attacks
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/When+Cameras+and+Routers+attack+Phones+Spike+in+CVE20148361+Exploits+Against+Port+52869/23942/
Microsoft Improves Account Security for Midterm Elections
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-accountguard-service-offers-protection-for-political-and-election-orgs/
Google Improves "Government Sponsored Attacks" Alert for GSuite
https://9to5google.com/2018/08/01/g-suite-admins-government-based-attackers/

Aug 1, 2018 • 6min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, August 1st 2018
Powershell Inside Certificates
https://blog.nviso.be/2018/07/31/powershell-inside-a-certificate-part-1/
TEMPEST is Back
http://youtu.be/BpNP9b3aIfY?a
Big Star Labs Spyware
https://adguard.com/en/blog/big-star-labs-spyware/

Jul 31, 2018 • 7min
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, July 31st 2018
DOSFuscation Campaign
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Malicious+Word+documents+using+DOSfuscation/23932/
Let's Encrypt Outage
https://letsencrypt.status.io
Malvertising Campaign Insides
https://research.checkpoint.com/malvertising-campaign-based-secrets-lies/

Jul 30, 2018 • 7min
ISC StormCast for Monday, July 30th 2018
Summary of Earchings in Recent Sextortion Attack
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Sextortion+Follow+the+Money/23922/
Adware Distributed with Legitimate Applications
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-websites-for-keepass-7zip-audacity-others-found-pushing-adware/
https://twitter.com/JusticeRage
PDF Editor Supply Chain Exploit
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/07/26/attack-inception-compromised-supply-chain-within-a-supply-chain-poses-new-risks/

Jul 27, 2018 • 16min
ISC StormCast for Friday, July 27th 2018
NetSpectre: Read Arbitrary Memory over the Network
https://misc0110.net/web/files/netspectre.pdf
Google Play Store Bans Crypto Miners
https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy-print/
Japanese Calendar Issues
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/shawnste/2018/04/12/the-japanese-calendars-y2k-moment/
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Samsung SmartThings Hub
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/07/samsung-smartthings-vulns.html?m=1
Times Change and Your Training Data Should Too: The Effect of Training Data Recency on Twitter Classifiers. Ryan O'Grady
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/artificialintelligence/times-change-training-data-too-effect-training-data-recency-twitter-classifiers-38500

Jul 26, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Thursday, July 26th 2018
Etherscan.io XSS Vulnerability
https://scotthelme.co.uk/xss-on-etherscan-io/
Tomcat Vulnerabilities Patched
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2018/07/23/Apache-Releases-Security-Updates-Apache-Tomcat
DNS over HTTPS Standard Finalized
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/doh/about/
ERP Systems Targeted in Recent Attacks
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2018/07/25/Malicious-Cyber-Activity-Targeting-ERP-Applications

Jul 25, 2018 • 5min
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, July 25th 2018
Emotet Update
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Recent+Emotet+activity/23908/
Clear Text Phone Tracking
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Cell+Phone+Monitoring+Who+is+Watching+the+Watchers/23910/
Bluetooth Bug
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304725
Apache OpenWhisk Vulnerability
https://www.puresec.io/blog/Apache_OpenWhisk_Mutability_Weakness?hs_preview=EpJUmSoY-5972289702


