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Phishing Campaigns Targeting AI Solutions Providers, (Sat, Aug 1st)
Most phishing campaigns rely on the fact that the victim is afraid to loose “something”: money, access to information, … Many brands have been impersonated by campaigns but I spotted some phishing emails that focus on AI services like ChatGPT. Yesterday, I found this email that was properly designed but also sent with a very…
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zipdump.py: Metadata Encoding, (Fri, Jul 31st)
I was asked for help with a problem similar to the following. Here is a ZIP file, analyzed with zipdump.py: The filename you see, is in Simplified Chinese: zipdump.py relies on the zipfile or pyzipper Python modules to parse the given ZIP file, and have the metadata (filenames and comments) decoded correctly. If this ZIP…
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, July 31st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10032, (Fri, Jul 31st)
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, July 30th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10030, (Thu, Jul 30th)
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Reconnaissance First: An SSH Bot That Sizes Up Your Hardware Before Deploying a Miner [Guest Diary], (Thu, Jul 30th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Adam Cann, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Introduction Most of what an internet-facing SSH honeypot records is noise. Endless password guessing, and bots that log in, immediately pull down a payload, and move on. On 27 June 2026 my honeypot caught something quieter, and…
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Apple Patches Everything (July 2026), (Wed, Jul 29th)
I am a bit late with this summary, but this week Apple released updates to all its operating systems and Safari. The Safari update, as usual, targets macOS prior to macOS 26. macOS updates covered the two older versions (14 and 15), while other operating system patches only covered the current 26 versions. A total of 187…
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, July 29th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10028, (Wed, Jul 29th)
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AutoIT Payload Injector , (Tue, Jul 28th)
For a long time, AutoIT[1] has been pretty common in the malware ecosystem. Threat actors still use it because it’s easy to write and powerful. Indeed, it can perform all the required actions to inject a payload into a remote process as you’ll see below. Since last week, I detected a wave of similar emails that…
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, July 28th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10026, (Tue, Jul 28th)
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Java Spring Boot “heapdump” scans, (Mon, Jul 27th)
Spring Boot exposes the endpoint “/actuator/heapdump” to collect debug information. By default, the endpoint will return a file heapdump.hprof, which includes a binary heapdump that can be used to analyze the current state of the application. Non-Java readers may be familiar with a similar concept, core dumps, which are produced by binaries to expose a memory…
