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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 minutes 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 Storm Center. You may submit questions and comments via our contact form at https://isc.sans.edu/contact.html .
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27 MAR 2025 ·
Leveraging CNNs and Entropy-Based Feature Selection to Identify Potential Malware Artifacts of Interest
This diary explores a novel methodology for classifying malware by integrating entropy-driven feature selection with a specialized Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Motivated by the increasing obfuscation tactics used by modern malware authors, we will focus on capturing high-entropy segments within files, regions most likely to harbor malicious functionality, and feeding these distinct byte patterns into our model.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Leveraging%20CNNs%20and%20Entropy-Based%20Feature%20Selection%20to%20Identify%20Potential%20Malware%20Artifacts%20of%20Interest/31790
Malware found on npm infecting local package with reverse shell
Researchers at Reversinglabs found two malicious NPM packages, ethers-provider2, and ethers-providerz that patch the well known (and not malicious) ethers package to add a reverse shell and downloader.
https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/malicious-npm-patch-delivers-reverse-shell
Google Patched Google Chrome 0-day
Google patched a vulnerability in Chrome that was already exploited in attacks against media and educational organizations in Russia
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_25.html
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26 MAR 2025 ·
XWiki Search Vulnerablity Exploit Attempts (CVE-2024-3721)
Our honeypot detected an increase in exploit attempts for an XWiki command injection vulnerablity. The vulnerability was patched last April, but appears to be exploited more these last couple days. The vulnerability affects the search feature and allows the attacker to inject Groovy code templates.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/X-Wiki%20Search%20Vulnerability%20exploit%20attempts%20%28CVE-2024-3721%29/31800
Correction: FBI Image Converter Warning
The FBI's Denver office warned of online file converters, not downloadable conversion tools
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/denver/news/fbi-denver-warns-of-online-file-converter-scam
VMWare Vulnerability
Broadcom released a fix for a VMWare Tools vulnerability. The vulnerability allows users of a Windows virtual machine to escalate privileges within the machine.
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25518
Draytek Reboots
Over the weekend, users started reporting Draytek routers rebooting and getting stuck in a reboot loop. Draytek now published advise as to how to fix the problem.
https://faq.draytek.com.au/docs/draytek-routers-rebooting-how-to-solve-this-issue/
Microsoft Managemnt Console Exploit CVE-2025-26633
TrendMicro released details showing how the MMC vulnerability Microsoft patched as part of its patch tuesday this month was exploited.
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/c/cve-2025-26633-water-gamayun.html
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25 MAR 2025 ·
Privacy Aware Bots
A botnet is using privacy as well as CSRF prevention headers to better blend in with normal browsers. However, in the process they may make it actually easier to spot them.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Privacy%20Aware%20Bots/31796
Critical Ingress Nightmare Vulnerability
ingress-nginx fixed four new vulnerabilities, one of which may lead to a Kubernetes cluster compromise. Note that at the time I am making this live, not all of the URLs below are available yet, but I hope they will be available shortly after publishing this podcast
https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/critical-ingressnightmare-vulns-kubernetes-environments
https://www.wiz.io/blog/ingress-nginx-kubernetes-vulnerabilities
https://kubernetes.io/blog/
FBI Warns of File Converter Scams
File converters may include malicious ad ons. Be careful where you get your software from.
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/denver/news/fbi-denver-warns-of-online-file-converter-scam
VSCode Extension Includes Ransomware
https://x.com/ReversingLabs/status/1902355043065500145
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24 MAR 2025 ·
Critical Next.js Vulnerability CVE-2025-29927
A critical vulnerability in how the x-middleware-subrequest header is verified may lead to bypassing authorization in Next.js applications.
https://zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and-things/nextjs-and-the-corrupt-middleware
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-f82v-jwr5-mffw
https://www.runzero.com/blog/next-js/
Microsoft Trust Signing Service Abused
Attackers abut the Microsoft Trust Signing Service, a service meant to help developers create signed software, to obtain short lived signatures for malware.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-trust-signing-service-abused-to-code-sign-malware/
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21 MAR 2025 ·
Some New Data Feeds and Little Incident
We started offering additional data feeds, and an SEO spamer attempted to make us change a link from an old podcast episode.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Some%20new%20Data%20Feeds%2C%20and%20a%20little%20%22incident%22./31786
Veeam Deserialization Vulnerability
Veeam released details regarding the latest vulnerablity in Veeam, pointing out the insufficient patch applied to a prior deserialization vulnerability.
https://labs.watchtowr.com/by-executive-order-we-are-banning-blacklists-domain-level-rce-in-veeam-backup-replication-cve-2025-23120/
IBM AIX Vulnerablity
The AIX NIM service is vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7186621
thanks Chris Mosby for Spotify comment
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20 MAR 2025 ·
Exploit Attempts for Cisco Smart Licensing Utility CVE-2024-20439 CVE-2024-20440
Attackers added last September's Cisco Smart Licensing Utility vulnerability to their toolset. These attacks orginate most likely from botnets and the same attackers are scanning for a wide range of additional vulnerabilities. The vulnerability is a static credential issue and trivial to exploit after the credentials were published last fall.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploit%20Attempts%20for%20Cisco%20Smart%20Licensing%20Utility%20CVE-2024-20439%20and%20CVE-2024-20440/31782
Legacy Driver Exploitation Through Bypassing Certificate Verification
Ahnlab documented a new type of "bring your own vulnerable driver" vulnerability. In this case, an old driver used by an anit-malware and anti-rootkit system can be used to shut down arbitrary processeses, including security related processeses.
https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/86881/
Synology Vulnerability Updates
Synology updates some security advisories it release last year adding addition details and vulnerable systems.
https://www.synology.com/en-global/security/advisory/Synology_SA_24_20
https://www.synology.com/en-global/security/advisory/Synology_SA_24_24
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19 MAR 2025 ·
Python Bot Delivered Through DLL Side-Loading
A "normal", but vulnerable to DLL side-loading PDF reader may be used to launch additional exploit code
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Python%20Bot%20Delivered%20Through%20DLL%20Side-Loading/31778
Tomcat RCE Correction
To exploit the Tomcat RCE I mentioned yesterday, two non-default configuration options must be selected by the victim.
https://x.com/dkx02668274/status/1901893656316969308
SAML Roulette: The Hacker Always Wins
This Portswigger blog explains in detail how to exploit the ruby-saml vulnerablity against GitLab.
https://portswigger.net/research/saml-roulette-the-hacker-always-wins
Windows Shortcut Zero Day Exploit
Attackers are currently taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in how Windows displays Shortcut (.lnk file) details. Trendmicro explains how the attack works and provides PoC code. Microsoft is not planning to fix this issue
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/c/windows-shortcut-zero-day-exploit.html
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18 MAR 2025 ·
Static Analysis of GUID Encoded Shellcode
Didier explains how to decode shell code embeded as GUIDs in malware, and how to feed the result to his tool 1768.py which will extract Cobal Strike configuration information from the code.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Static%20Analysis%20of%20GUID%20Encoded%20Shellcode/31774
SAMLStorm: Critical Authentication Bypass in xml-crypto and Node.js libraries
xml-crypto, a library use in Node.js applications to decode XML and support SAML, has found to parse comments incorrectly leading to several SAML vulnerabilities.
https://workos.com/blog/samlstorm
One PUT Request to Own Tomcat: CVE-2025-24813 RCE is in the Wild
A just made public deserialization vulnerablity in Tomcat is already being exploited. Contributing to the rapid exploit release is the similarity of this vulnerability to other Java deserializtion vulnerabilities.
https://lab.wallarm.com/one-put-request-to-own-tomcat-cve-2025-24813-rce-is-in-the-wild/ CVE-2025-24813
CSS Abuse for Evasion and Tracking
Attackers are using cascading stylesheets to evade detection and enable more stealthy tracking of users
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/css-abuse-for-evasion-and-tracking/
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17 MAR 2025 ·
Mirai Bot Now Incorporating Malformed DrayTek Vigor Router Exploits
One of the many versions of the Mirai botnet added some new exploit strings attempting to take advantage of an old DrayTek Vigor Router vulnerability, but they got the URL wrong.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Mirai%20Bot%20now%20incroporating%20%28malformed%3F%29%20DrayTek%20Vigor%20Router%20Exploits/31770
Compromised GitHub Action
The popular GitHub action tj-actions/changed-files was compromised and leaks credentials via the action logs
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/harden-runner-detection-tj-actions-changed-files-action-is-compromised
ruby-saml authentication bypass
A confusion in how to parse SAML messages between two XML parsers used by Ruby leads to an authentication bypass in saml-ruby.
https://github.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone-bypassing-saml-sso-authentication-with-parser-differentials/
GitHub Fake Security Alerts
Fake GitHub security alerts are used to trick package maintainers into adding OAUTH privileges to malicious apps.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-security-alert-issues-on-github-use-oauth-app-to-hijack-accounts/
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14 MAR 2025 ·
File Hashes Analysis with Power BI
Guy explains in this diary how to analyze Cowrie honeypot file hashes using Microsoft's BI tool and what you may be able to discover using this tool.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/File%20Hashes%20Analysis%20with%20Power%20BI%20from%20Data%20Stored%20in%20DShield%20SIEM/31764
Apache Camel Vulnerability
Apache released two patches for Camel in close succession. Initially, the vulnerability was only addressed for headers, but as Akamai discovered, it can also be exploited via query parameters. This vulnerability is trivial to exploit and leads to arbitrary code execution.
https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/march-apache-camel-vulnerability-detections-and-mitigations
Juniper Patches Junos Vulnerability
Juniper patches an already exploited vulnerability in JunOS. However, to exploit the vulnerability, and attacker already needs privileged access. By exploiting the vulnerability, an attacker may completely compromised the device.
https://supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/2025-03-Out-of-Cycle-Security-Bulletin-Junos-OS-A-local-attacker-with-shell-access-can-execute-arbitrary-code-CVE-2025-21590?language=en_US
AMI Security Advisory
AMI patched three vulnerabilities. One of the, an authentication bypass in Redfish, allows for a complete system compromise without authentication and is rated with a CVSS score of 10.0.
https://go.ami.com/hubfs/Security%20Advisories/2025/AMI-SA-2025003.pdf
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...
show more
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 minutes 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 Storm Center. You may submit questions and comments via our contact form at https://isc.sans.edu/contact.html .
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