Author: sowerb1

[This is a Guest Diary by Austin Bodolay, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Over the past several months, I have gained practical insight into the challenges of deploying and operating a honeypot, even within a relatively simple environment. This work highlighted how varying hardware, software, and network design—can significantly alter…

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  [This is a guest diary contributed by Claire Perry (LinkedIn)] The structural integrity of modern society is predicated upon a dense and often opaque network of interconnected systems. For decades, the modeling of these systems remained siloed within specific domains: industrial processes were governed by the hierarchical constraints of the Purdue Model, while corporate…

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In 2010, OWASP added “Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards” to its Top 10 list and merged it into “Sensitive Data Exposure” in 2013 [owasp1] [owasp2]. Open redirects are often overlooked, and their impact is not always well understood. At first, it does not look like a big deal. The user is receiving a 3xx status code and…

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In his last two diaries, Xavier discussed recent malware campaigns that download JPEG files with embedded malicious payload[1,2]. At that point in time, I’ve not come across the malicious “MSI image” myself, but while I was going over malware samples that were caught by one of my customer’s e-mail proxies during last week, I found…

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Introduction For at least the past year or so, I’ve been receiving Japanese-language phishing emails to my blog email addresses at @malware-traffic-analysis.net.  I’m not Japanese, but I suppose my blog’s email addresses ended up on a list used by the group sending these emails. They’re all easily caught by my spam filters, so they’re not…

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