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[This is a Guest Diary by Sahil Shaikh, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Introduction CVE-2017-9841 is a vulnerability is a security flaw in PHPUnit before 4.8.28 and 5.x before 5.6.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via HTTP POST data beginning with a “<?php ” substring.…

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[This is a Guest Diary by James Levija, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Cybersecurity (BACS) program [1].] Executive Summary TeamTNT is running a crypto mining campaign dubbed Spinning YARN. Spinning YARN focuses on exploiting Docker, Redis, YARN, and Confluence [2]. On November 4th, 2024, my DShield sensor recorded…

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RATs or “Remote Access Tools” are very popular these days. From an attacker’s point of view, it’s a great way to search and exfiltrate interesting data but also to pivot internally in the network. Besides malicious RATs, they are legit tools that are used in many organisations to perform “remote administration”. Well-known tools are: VNC,…

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Last week, Apache announced a vulnerability in Struts2 [1]. The path traversal vulnerability scored 9.5 on the CVSS scale. If exploited, the vulnerability allows file uploads into otherwise restricted directories, which may lead to remote code execution if a webshell is uploaded and exposed in the web root. I call the exploit attempts below “inspired”…

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