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ISC StormCast for Monday, October 18th, 2021
Active Scanning for Apache Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-41773 and 42013 https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Apache+is+Actively+Scan+for+CVE202141773+CVE202142013/27940/ Warranty Repairs and Non Removable Storage Risks https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Warranty+Repairs+and+NonRemovable+Storage+Risks/27938/ Crypto Wallet Compromised on OpenSea NFT Marketplace https://blog.checkpoint.com/2021/10/13/check-point-software-prevents-theft-of-crypto-wallets-on-opensea-the-worlds-largest-nft-marketplace/ $5.2 Billion worth of Bitcoin Transactions Linked to Ransomware https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/Financial%20Trend%20Analysis_Ransomeware%20508%20FINAL.pdf
ISC StormCast for Monday, October 18th, 2021
Active Scanning for Apache Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-41773 and 42013 https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Apache+is+Actively+Scan+for+CVE202141773+CVE202142013/27940/ Warranty Repairs and Non Removable Storage Risks https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Warranty+Repairs+and+NonRemovable+Storage+Risks/27938/ Crypto Wallet Compromised on OpenSea NFT Marketplace https://blog.checkpoint.com/2021/10/13/check-point-software-prevents-theft-of-crypto-wallets-on-opensea-the-worlds-largest-nft-marketplace/ $5.2 Billion worth of Bitcoin Transactions Linked to Ransomware https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/Financial%20Trend%20Analysis_Ransomeware%20508%20FINAL.pdf
ISC StormCast for Friday, October 15th, 2021
Port Forwarding with Windows for the Win https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/PortForwarding+with+Windows+for+the+Win/27934/ Please Fix Your E-Mail Brute Forcing Tool https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Please+fix+your+EMail+Brute+forcing+tool/27930/ Ad Blocker Injects Ads https://www.imperva.com/blog/the-ad-blocker-that-injects-ads/ Romance Scams Go After Crypto Currency https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/10/13/romance-scams-with-a-cryptocurrency-twist-new-research-from-sophoslabs/ Sysmon For Linux https://github.com/Sysinternals/SysmonForLinux Foxit Updates https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html VMWare Updates https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0023.html
ISC StormCast for Friday, October 15th, 2021
Port Forwarding with Windows for the Win https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/PortForwarding+with+Windows+for+the+Win/27934/ Please Fix Your E-Mail Brute Forcing Tool https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Please+fix+your+EMail+Brute+forcing+tool/27930/ Ad Blocker Injects Ads https://www.imperva.com/blog/the-ad-blocker-that-injects-ads/ Romance Scams Go After Crypto Currency https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/10/13/romance-scams-with-a-cryptocurrency-twist-new-research-from-sophoslabs/ Sysmon For Linux https://github.com/Sysinternals/SysmonForLinux Foxit Updates https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html VMWare Updates https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0023.html
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
Microsoft Patch Tuesday https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Microsoft+October+2021+Patch+Tuesday/27928/ Adobe Patches https://helpx.adobe.com/security/security-bulletin.html PyPi Remove mitmproxy2 Module https://twitter.com/maximilianhils/status/1447525552370458625 https://web.archive.org/web/20211012105244/https://gist.github.com/mhils/7ff29d50b25a1c99e06834cf95684333
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
Microsoft Patch Tuesday https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Microsoft+October+2021+Patch+Tuesday/27928/ Adobe Patches https://helpx.adobe.com/security/security-bulletin.html PyPi Remove mitmproxy2 Module https://twitter.com/maximilianhils/status/1447525552370458625 https://web.archive.org/web/20211012105244/https://gist.github.com/mhils/7ff29d50b25a1c99e06834cf95684333
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
Non HTTP Requests Hitting Web Server https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Things+that+go+Bump+in+the+Night+Non+HTTP+Requests+Hitting+Web+Servers/27924/ Apple Updates iOS/iPadOS to 15.0.2 https://saaramar.github.io/IOMFB_integer_overflow_poc/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212846 Weak SSH Keys Used with GitKraken https://github.blog/2021-10-11-github-security-update-revoking-weakly-generated-ssh-keys/ Let's Encrypt Outage https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/6164b5af714e1f053880ba0c
ISC StormCast for Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
Non HTTP Requests Hitting Web Server https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Things+that+go+Bump+in+the+Night+Non+HTTP+Requests+Hitting+Web+Servers/27924/ Apple Updates iOS/iPadOS to 15.0.2 https://saaramar.github.io/IOMFB_integer_overflow_poc/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212846 Weak SSH Keys Used with GitKraken https://github.blog/2021-10-11-github-security-update-revoking-weakly-generated-ssh-keys/ Let's Encrypt Outage https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/6164b5af714e1f053880ba0c
ISC StormCast for Monday, October 11th, 2021
Scanning for Previous Oracle WebLogic Vulnerabilities https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Scanning+for+Previous+Oracle+WebLogic+Vulnerabilities/27918/ Sorting Things Out - Sorting Data by IP Address https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Sorting+Things+Out+Sorting+Data+by+IP+Address/27916/ https://gitlab.com/slackermedia/bashcrawl Telegram Does Not Remove Auto-Deleted Messages from Cache https://habr.com/en/post/580582/ Microsoft To Disable Excel 4.0 Macros By Default https://twitter.com/GelosSnake/status/1446192775087722497 https://m365admin.handsontek.net/macro-settings-update-to-disable-excel-4-0-macros-by-default/
ISC StormCast for Monday, October 11th, 2021
Scanning for Previous Oracle WebLogic Vulnerabilities https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Scanning+for+Previous+Oracle+WebLogic+Vulnerabilities/27918/ Sorting Things Out - Sorting Data by IP Address https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Sorting+Things+Out+Sorting+Data+by+IP+Address/27916/ https://gitlab.com/slackermedia/bashcrawl Telegram Does Not Remove Auto-Deleted Messages from Cache https://habr.com/en/post/580582/ Microsoft To Disable Excel 4.0 Macros By Default https://twitter.com/GelosSnake/status/1446192775087722497 https://m365admin.handsontek.net/macro-settings-update-to-disable-excel-4-0-macros-by-default/
ISC StormCast for Friday, October 8th, 2021
Who is Hunting For Your IPTV Set-Top Box? https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Who+Is+Hunting+For+Your+IPTV+SetTop+Box/27912/ Another Update For Apache https://httpd.apache.org Font on Lake Rootkit https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/10/07/fontonlake-previously-unknown-malware-family-targeting-linux/ osquery 5 with macOS Endpoint Security https://www.trailofbits.com/post/announcing-osquery-5-now-with-endpointsecurity-on-macos
ISC StormCast for Friday, October 8th, 2021
Who is Hunting For Your IPTV Set-Top Box? https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Who+Is+Hunting+For+Your+IPTV+SetTop+Box/27912/ Another Update For Apache https://httpd.apache.org Font on Lake Rootkit https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/10/07/fontonlake-previously-unknown-malware-family-targeting-linux/ osquery 5 with macOS Endpoint Security https://www.trailofbits.com/post/announcing-osquery-5-now-with-endpointsecurity-on-macos
ISC StormCast for Thursday, October 7th, 2021
Apache 2.4.49 Directory Traversal Vulnerability https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Apache+2449+Directory+Traversal+Vulnerability+CVE202141773/27908/ Python Ransomware Targeting ESXi Server https://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/2021/10/sophos-researchers-uncover-new-python-ransomware-targeting-an-esxi-server-and-virtual-machines.aspx AT&T SIM Forensics https://medium.com/telecom-expert/what-is-at-t-doing-at-1111340002-c418876c212c Google Making Additional 2FA Push https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/making-sign-safer-and-more-convenient/
ISC StormCast for Thursday, October 7th, 2021
Apache 2.4.49 Directory Traversal Vulnerability https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Apache+2449+Directory+Traversal+Vulnerability+CVE202141773/27908/ Python Ransomware Targeting ESXi Server https://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/2021/10/sophos-researchers-uncover-new-python-ransomware-targeting-an-esxi-server-and-virtual-machines.aspx AT&T SIM Forensics https://medium.com/telecom-expert/what-is-at-t-doing-at-1111340002-c418876c212c Google Making Additional 2FA Push https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/making-sign-safer-and-more-convenient/
ISC StormCast for Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
Looking Glass Sites https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Looking+Glasses+Debugging+Network+Connectivity+Issues/27904/ Facebook Postmortem https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/ Apache 2.4.49 Directory Traversal Vulnerability https://blog.sonatype.com/apache-servers-actively-exploited-in-wild-importance-of-prompt-patching Windows 11 Released https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/10/04/windows-11-offers-chip-to-cloud-protection-to-meet-the-new-security-challenges-of-hybrid-work/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55319