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SANS Stormcast Monday, February 23rd, 2026: Japanese Phishing; AI Agents Ignoring Instructions; Starkiller MFA Phishing

Japanese-Language Phishing Emails https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Japanese-Language%20Phishing%20Emails/32734 ‚God-Like‘ Attack Machines: AI Agents Ignore Security Policies https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/ai-agents-ignore-security-policies Starkiller: New Phishing Framework Proxies Real Login Pages to Bypass MFA https://abnormal.ai/blog/starkiller-phishing-kit

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‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA

Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abuse activists and security firms. But a stealthy new phishing-as-a-service offering lets customers sidestep both of these pitfalls: It uses cleverly disguised links to load the target brand’s real website, and […]

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, February 18th, 2026: IR Phishing; Neenadu Android Backdoor; NiFi Bugs; LLMs Phishing; Encrypted RCS

Fake Incident Report Used in Phishing Campaign https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Fake%20Incident%20Report%20Used%20in%20Phishing%20Campaign/32722 Divide and conquer: how the new Keenadu backdoor exposed links between major Android botnets https://securelist.com/keenadu-android-backdoor/118913/ CVE-2026-25903: Apache NiFi: Missing Authorization of Restricted Permissions for Component Updates https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q1/166 The Next Frontier of Runtime Assembly Attacks: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Phishing JavaScript in Real Time https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/real-time-malicious-javascript-through-llms/ Encrypted RCS in […]

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SANS Stormcast Thursday, January 8th, 2026: HTML QR Code Phishing; n8n vulnerability; Powerbank Feature Creep

A phishing campaign with QR codes rendered using an HTML table Phishing emails are bypassing filters by encoding QR codes as HTML tables. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20phishing%20campaign%20with%20QR%20codes%20rendered%20using%20an%20HTML%20table/32606 n8n vulnerabilities In recent days, several new n8n vulnerabilities were disclosed. Ensure that you update any on-premises installations and carefully consider what to use n8n for. https://www.cyera.com/research-labs/ni8mare-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution-in-n8n-cve-2026-21858 https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/security/advisories/GHSA-v4pr-fm98-w9pg Power bank feature […]

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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 29th, 2025: Invisible Subject Character Phishing; Tomcat PUT Vuln; BIND9 Spoofing Vuln PoC

Phishing with Invisible Characters in the Subject Line Phishing emails use invisible UTF-8 encoded characters to break up keywords used to detect phishing (or spam). This is aided by mail clients not rendering some characters that should be rendered. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20phishing%20with%20invisible%20characters%20in%20the%20subject%20line/32428 Apache Tomcat PUT Directory Traversal Apache released an update to Tomcat fixing a directory traversal […]

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SANS Stormcast Monday, October 27th, 2025: Bilingual Phishing; Kaitai Struct WebIDE

Bilingual Phishing for Cloud Credentials Guy observed identical phishing messages in French and English attempting to phish cloud credentials https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Phishing%20Cloud%20Account%20for%20Information/32416 Kaitai Struct WebIDE The binary file analysis tool Kaitai Struct is now available in a web only version https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Kaitai%20Struct%20WebIDE/32422 WSUS Emergency Update Microsoft released an emergency patch for WSUS to fix a currently exploited critical […]

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SANS Stormcast Monday July 21st, 2025: Sharepoint Exploited; Veeam Fake Voicemail Phish; Passkey Phishing Attack

SharePoint Servers Exploited via 0-day CVE-2025-53770 Late last week, CodeWhite found a new remote code execution exploit against SharePoint. This vulnerability is now actively exploited. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Critical+Sharepoint+0Day+Vulnerablity+Exploited+CVE202553770+ToolShell/32122/ Veeam Voicemail Phishing Attackers appear to impersonate VEEAM in recent voicemail-themed phishing attempts. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Veeam%20Phishing%20via%20Wav%20File/32120 Passkey Phishing Attack A currently active phishing attack takes advantage of the ability to use […]

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SANS Stormcast Friday, June 20th, 2025: New Employee Phishing; Malicious Tech Support Links; Social Engineering App Sepecific Passwords

How Long Until the Phishing Starts? About Two Weeks After setting up a Google Workspace and adding a new user, it took only two weeks for the new employee to receive somewhat targeted phishing emails. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/How%20Long%20Until%20the%20Phishing%20Starts%3F%20About%20Two%20Weeks/32052 Scammers hijack websites of Bank of America, Netflix, Microsoft, and more to insert fake phone numbers Scammers are placing […]

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