Category: SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

New SSH Username Report, (Sun, Apr 6th)

As you may have noticed by some of my recent diaries, I have spent a bit more time on ssh and telnet credentials. These credentials are collected by Cowrie, the amazing full features SSH and Telnet honeypot maintained by Michel…

Surge in Scans for Juniper “t128” Default User, (Wed, Apr 2nd)

Last week, I noticed a surge in scans for the username “t128”. This username, accompanied by the password “128tRoutes,” is a well-known default account for Juniper's Session Smart Networking Platform (or “SSR” for “Session Smart Routing”). The username and password…

A Tale of Two Phishing Sites, (Fri, Mar 28th)

In phishing and in malspam, as in any other field, one can see certain trends develop over time. For obvious reasons, most threat actors like to use techniques and approaches that are novel and, thus, more effective. This commonly leads…

Sitecore “thumbnailsaccesstoken” Deserialization Scans (and some new reports) CVE-2025-27218, (Thu, Mar 27th)

On March 6th, Searchlight Cyber published a blog revealing details about a new deserialization vulnerability in Sitecore [1]. Sitecore calls itself a “Digital Experience Platform (CXP),” which is a fancy content management system (CMS). Sitecore itself is written in .Net and…

Privacy Aware Bots, (Mon, Mar 24th)

Staring long enough at honeypot logs, I am sure you will come across one or the other “oddity.” Something that at first does not make any sense, but then, in some way, does make sense. After looking at the Next.js…