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[This is a Guest Diary by Matthew Paul, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Over the past few months, I’ve been working under a SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) Sr. Handler as part of the SANS Degree Program ISC Internship.  The first objective of the internship is setting up a forward-facing…

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[This is a guest diary by Christopher Crowley, https://montance.com] Here’s a good reason to include security awareness training for new hires! I recently added an account to my Google Workspace domain (montance[dot]com). Friday, May 16th, 10:10 am, to be exact. Something interesting to note about the domain configuration is there’s a catchall account in place,…

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Over the weekend, Xavier posted about another image with a payload: “More Steganography!“. Xavier did a static analysis, and I want to explain how you can decode the payload if you opted for a dynamic analysis. During your dynamic analysis, you will notice the download of a JPEG image from hxxps://zynova[.]kesug[.]com/new_image.jpg. You can use my tool…

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I spotted another interesting file that uses, once again, steganography. It seems to be a trend (see one of my previous diaries[1]). The file is an malicious Excel sheet called blcopy.xls. Office documents are rare these days because Microsoft improved the rules to allow automatic macro execution[2]. But it does not mean that Office documents…

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[This is a Guest Diary by Michal Ambrozkiewicz, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Cybersecurity (BACS) program [1].] On April 29, 2025, my Raspberry Pi-based Cowrie SSH honeypot captured a sophisticated attack campaign targeting Linux systems. This wasn’t just another automated scanner – the logs reveal a multi-stage attack…

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[This is a Guest Diary by William Constantino, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] In the beginning of my Internet Storm Center (ISC) internship, I wasted too much time trying to build my SIEM from an old computer I had lying around, or a new Raspberry Pi I purchased. I keep…

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