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Apple Patches Apple released patches for iOS, macOS, and visionOS, fixing a single font parsing vulnerability https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple%20Patches%20Single%20Vulnerability%20CVE-2025-43400/32330 Increase in Scans for Palo Alto Global Protect Vulnerability (CVE-2024-3400). Our honeypots detected an increase in scans for a Palo Alto Global Protect vulnerability. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Increase%20in%20Scans%20for%20Palo%20Alto%20Global%20Protect%20Vulnerability%20%28CVE-2024-3400%29/32328 Nimbus Manticore / Charming Kitten Malware update Checkpoint released a report with details […]

Converting Timestamps in .bash_history Unix shells offer the ability to add timestamps to commands in the .bash_history file. This is often done in the form of Unix timestamps. This new tool converts these timestamps into a more readable format. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/New%20tool%3A%20convert-ts-bash-history.py/32324 Cisco ASA/FRD Compromises Exploitation of the vulnerabilities Cisco patched last week may have bone back […]

Webshells Hiding in .well-known Places Our honeypots registered an increase in scans for URLs in the .well-known directory, which appears to be looking for webshells. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Webshells%20Hiding%20in%20.well-known%20Places/32320 Cisco Patches Critical Exploited Vulnerabilities Cisco released updates addressing already-exploited vulnerabilities in the VPN web server for the ASA and FTD appliances. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/resources/asa_ftd_continued_attacks https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-webvpn-z5xP8EUB https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-webvpn-YROOTUW XCSSET Evolves Again Microsoft […]

Exploit Attempts Against Older Hikvision Camera Vulnerability Out honeypots observed an increase in attacks against some older Hikvision issues. A big part of the problem is weak passwords, and the ability to send credentials as part of the URL. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploit%20Attempts%20Against%20Older%20Hikvision%20Camera%20Vulnerability/32316 Cisco Patches Already Exploited SNMP Vulnerability Cisco patched a stack-based buffer overflow in the SNMP […]

Distracting the Analyst for Fun and Profit Our undergraduate intern, Tyler House analyzed what may have been a small DoS attack that was likely more meant to distract than to actually cause a denial of service https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%5BGuest%20Diary%5D%20Distracting%20the%20Analyst%20for%20Fun%20and%20Profit/32308 GitHub s plan for a more secure npm supply chain GitHub outlined its plan to harden the supply […]

CISA Reports Ivanti EPMM Exploit Sightings Two different organizations submitted backdoors to CISA, which are believed to have been installed using Ivanti vulnerabilities patched in May. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/analysis-reports/ar25-261a Lastpass Observes Impersonation on GitHub Lastpass noted a number of companies being impersonated via fake GitHub repositories in order to trick victims to download Mac malware. https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/attack-targeting-macs-via-github-pages Oracle […]

Help Wanted: What are these odd requests about? An odd request is hitting a number of our honeypots with a somewhat unusual HTTP request header. Please let me know if you no what the request is about. https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Help+Wanted+What+are+these+odd+reuqests+about/32302/ Forta GoAnywhere MFT Vulnerability Forta s GoAnywhere MFT product suffers from a critical deserialization vulnerability. Forta released […]

Exploring Uploads in a Dshield Honeypot Environment This guest diary by one of our SANS.edu undergraduate interns shows how to analyze files uploaded to Cowrie https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploring%20Uploads%20in%20a%20Dshield%20Honeypot%20Environment%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/32296 Sonicwall Breach SonicWall MySonicWall accounts were breached via credential brute forcing https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/mysonicwall-cloud-backup-file-incident/250915160910330 DeepSeek Bias Cloudflare found significant biases in code created by the Chinese AI engine DeepSeek. Code for […]

CTRL-Z DLL Hooking Attackers may use a simple reload trick to overwrite breakpoints left by analysts to reverse malicious binaries. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/CTRL-Z%20DLL%20Hooking/32294 Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant via Actor tokens As part of September s patch Tuesday, Microsoft patched CVE-2025-55241. The discoverer of the vulnerability, Dirk-jan Mollema has published a blog post showing how […]

Why You Need Phishing-Resistant Authentication NOW. The recent compromise of a number of high-profile npmjs.com accounts has yet again shown how dangerous a simple phishing email can be. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Why%20You%20Need%20Phishing%20Resistant%20Authentication%20NOW./32290 S1ngularity/nx Attackers Strike Again A second wave of attacks has hit over a hundred npm-related GitHub repositories. The updated payload implements a worm that propagates itself […]