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Use of CSS stuffing as an obfuscation technique?, (Fri, Nov 21st)
From time to time, it can be instructive to look at generic phishing messages that are delivered to one’s inbox or that are caught by basic spam filters. Although one usually doesn’t find much of interest, sometimes these little excursions into what should be a run-of-the-mill collection of basic, commonly used phishing techniques can lead…
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, November 21st, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9710, (Fri, Nov 21st)
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Oracle Identity Manager Exploit Observation from September (CVE-2025-61757), (Thu, Nov 20th)
Searchlight Cyber today released a blog detailing CVE-2025-61757, a vulnerability they reported to Oracle. Oracle released a patch for the vulnerability as part of its October Critical Patch Update, which was released on October 21st. Based on Searchlight Cyber’s blog, the issue is pretty trivial to exploit: All URLs that end in “.wadl” are exempt…
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, November 20th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9708, (Thu, Nov 20th)
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Unicode: It is more than funny domain names., (Wed, Nov 12th)
When people discuss the security implications of Unicode, International Domain Names (IDNs) are often highlighted as a risk. However, while visible and often talked about, IDNs are probably not what you should really worry about when it comes to Unicode. There are several issues that impact application security beyond confusing domain names. At first sight,…
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9706, (Wed, Nov 19th)
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KongTuke activity, (Tue, Nov 18th)
Introduction Today’s diary is an example of KongTuke activity using fake CAPTCHA pages for a ClickFix-style lure. Also known as LandUpdate808 or TAG-124 and described as a sophisticated TDS system, KongTuke has been active since at least May 2024. I keep track of this campaign through the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance, which is mostly information from…
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9704, (Tue, Nov 18th)
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Decoding Binary Numeric Expressions, (Mon, Nov 17th)
In diary entry “Formbook Delivered Through Multiple Scripts“, Xavier mentions that the following line: Nestlers= array(79+1,79,80+7,60+9,82,83,72,69,76,76) decodes to the string POWERSHELL. My tool numbers-to-hex.py is a tool that extracts numbers from text files, and converts them to hexadecimal. Like this: I can then use another tool, hex-to-bin.py to convert the hexadecimal numbers to binary, and…
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, November 17th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9702, (Mon, Nov 17th)
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