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ISC Stormcast For Monday, July 7th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9514, (Mon, Jul 7th)
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A few interesting and notable ssh/telnet usernames, (Sun, Jul 6th)
Just looked at our telnet/ssh honeypot data, and found some interesting new usernames that attackers attempted to use: “notachancethisisreal“ This username is likely used to detect Cowrie (and other) honeypots. Cowrie is often configured to accept logins randomly. No matter the username/password combination used, the login will succeed every few times. This is supposed to…
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9512, (Thu, Jul 3rd)
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, June 30th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9510, (Mon, Jun 30th)
(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 Friday, June 27th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9508, (Fri, Jun 27th)
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, June 26th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9506, (Thu, Jun 26th)
(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 Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9504, (Wed, Jun 25th)
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Quick Password Brute Forcing Evolution Statistics, (Tue, Jun 24th)
We have collected SSH and telnet honeypot data in various forms for about 10 years. Yesterday’s diaries, and looking at some new usernames attempted earlier today, made me wonder if botnets just add new usernames or remove old ones from their lists. So I pulled some data from our database to test this hypothesis. I…
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9502, (Tue, Jun 24th)
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Scans for Ichano AtHome IP Cameras, (Mon, Jun 23rd)
Ichano’s “AtHome Camera” is a bit of a different approach to home surveillance cameras [1]. Instead of a hardware camera solution, this product is a software solution that turns existing devices like computers and tablets into webcams. The software implements features we know from similar IP camera devices. It enabled streaming of images and remote…

