ISC Stormcast For Thursday, March 19th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9856, (Thu, Mar 19th)
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This activity was found and reported by BACS student Adam Thorman as part of one of his assignments which I posted his final paper [1] last week. This activity appeared to only have occurred on the 19 Feb 2026 where at least 2 sensors detected on...
Scans for "adminer", (Wed, Mar 18th)
Date inconnueA very popular target of attackers scanning our honeypots is "phpmyadmin". phpMyAdmin is a script first released in the late 90s, before many security concepts had been discovered. It's rich history of vulnerabilities made it a favorite target....
Meta’s AI Glasses and Privacy
Date inconnueSurprising no one, Meta’s new AI glasses are a privacy disaster. I’m not sure what can be done here. This is a technology that will exist, whether we like it or not. Meanwhile, there is a new Android app that detects when there are smart glasses nearby.
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9854, (Wed, Mar 18th)
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IPv4 Mapped IPv6 Addresses, (Tue, Mar 17th)
Date inconnueYesterday, in my diary about the scans for "/proxy/" URLs, I noted how attackers are using IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses to possibly obfuscate their attack. These addresses are defined in RFC 4038. These addresses are one of the many transition...
An expensive mistake: Someone jumped at the opportunity to steal $4.4 million in crypto assets after South Korea’s National Tax Service exposed publicly the mnemonic recovery phrase of a seized cryptocurrency wallet. The funds were stored in a...
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, March 17th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9852, (Tue, Mar 17th)
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Update: oledump.py Version 0.0.85
Date inconnueFixing newlines in some plugins. oledump_V0_0_85.zip (http)MD5: D972CE411B395EF77DBCE9A63059E8C1SHA256: 721C095F3126745A42720316A0B3AC1BCCB9DCDBBA9FF59F5FE1F70F8BA3A1AB
/proxy/ URL scans with IP addresses, (Mon, Mar 16th)
Date inconnueAttempts to find proxy servers are among the most common scans our honeypots detect. Most of the time, the attacker attempts to use a host header or include the hostname in the URL to trigger the proxy server forwarding the request. In some...
Possible New Result in Quantum Factorization
Date inconnueI’m skeptical about—and not qualified to review—this new result in factorization with a quantum computer, but if it’s true it’s a theoretical improvement in the speed of factoring large numbers with a quantum computer.
ISC Stormcast For Monday, March 16th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9850, (Mon, Mar 16th)
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Date inconnueThis is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving the Ross Anderson Lecture at the University of Cambridge’s Churchill College at 5:30 PM GMT on Thursday, March 19, 2026. I’m speaking at RSAC 2026 in San Francisco,...
HTB: Gavel
Date inconnueGavel is a Linux box hosting a PHP auction website with an exposed .git directory. I’ll recover the source code with git-dumper and exploit a novel SQL injection technique that bypasses PDO’s backtick-quoted prepared statements to dump the...
Introduction This diary describes a Remcos RAT infection that I generated in my lab on Thursday, 2026-03-11. This infection was from the SmartApeSG campaign that used a ClickFix-style fake CAPTCHA page. My previous in-depth diary about a...
Update: oledump.py Version 0.0.84
Date inconnueThis is a fix for option –yarastrings. oledump_V0_0_84.zip (http)MD5: 24EA0DEAA6FCB2FA234F33DD179BBAAFSHA256: C966607C864AAE1D956279B4C3087D37BD003072ED39143512979E771BA5462A
Some good news: squid stocks seem to be recovering in the waters off the Falkland Islands. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Academia and the “AI Brain Drain”
Date inconnueIn 2025, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta collectively spent US$380 billion on building artificial-intelligence tools. That number is expected to surge still higher this year, to $650 billion, to fund the building of physical infrastructure,...
Dear blog readers,I recently took the time and effort and do some research on the recently made public Coruna iOS iPhone client-side exploits serving web malware exploitation kits.Here are the details.Related MD5s for the javascript detected...
On Wednesday, a phishing message made its way into our handler inbox that contained a fairly typical low-quality lure, but turned out to be quite interesting in the end nonetheless. That is because the accompanying credential stealing web page...
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