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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, January 28th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9784, (Wed, Jan 28th)
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![Initial Stages of Romance Scams [Guest Diary], (Tue, Jan 27th)](/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Fares_Azhari_1-SVvmBQ.png)
Initial Stages of Romance Scams [Guest Diary], (Tue, Jan 27th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Fares Azhari, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Romance scams are a form of social-engineering fraud that causes both financial and emotional harm. They vary in technique and platform, but most follow the same high-level roadmap: initial contact, relationship building, financial exploitation. In this blog post I focus…
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9782, (Tue, Jan 27th)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, January 26th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9780, (Mon, Jan 26th)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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Scanning Webserver with /$(pwd)/ as a Starting Path, (Sun, Jan 25th)
Based on the sensors reporting to ISC, this activity started on the 13 Jan 2026. My own sensor started seeing the first scan on the 21 Jan 2026 with limited probes. So far, this activity has been limited to a few scans based on the reports available in ISC [5] (select Match Partial URL and Draw):…
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, January 23rd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9778, (Fri, Jan 23rd)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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Is AI-Generated Code Secure?, (Thu, Jan 22nd)
The title of this diary is perhaps a bit catchy but the question is important. I don’t consider myself as a good developer. That’s not my day job and I’m writing code to improve my daily tasks. I like to say “I’m writing sh*ty code! It works for me, no warranty that it will for…
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9776, (Thu, Jan 22nd)
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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Automatic Script Execution In Visual Studio Code, (Wed, Jan 21st)
Visual Studio Code is a popular open-source code editor[1]. But it’s much more than a simple editor, it’s a complete development platform that supports many languages and it is available on multiple platforms. Used by developers worldwide, it’s a juicy target for threat actors because it can be extended with extensions. Of course, it became a…
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9774, (Wed, Jan 21st)
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