Tag: SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

New Feature: Daily Trends Report, (Mon, Aug 4th)

I implemented a new report today, the “Daily Trends” report. It summarizes noteworthy data received from our honeypot. As with everything, it will improve if you provide feedback :) This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON:…

Legacy May Kill, (Sun, Aug 3rd)

Just saw something that I thought was long gone. The username “pop3user” is showing up in our telnet/ssh logs. I don't know how long ago it was that I used POP3 to retrieve e-mail from one of my mail servers.…

Scattered Spider Related Domain Names, (Thu, Jul 31st)

This week, CISA updated its advisory on Scattered Spider. Scattered Spider is a threat actor using social engineering tricks to access target networks. The techniques used by Scattered Spider replicate those used by other successful actors, such as Lapsus$. Social…

Apple Updates Everything: July 2025, (Tue, Jul 29th)

Apple today released updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. This is a feature release, but it includes significant security updates. Apple patches a total of 29 different vulnerabilities. None of these vulnerabilities has been identified as exploited. …

Triage is Key! Python to the Rescue!, (Tue, Jul 29th)

When you need to quickly analyze a lot of data, there is one critical step to perform: Triage. In forensic investigations, this step is critical because it allows investigators to quickly identify, prioritize, and isolate the most relevant or high…

Parasitic Sharepoint Exploits, (Mon, Jul 28th)

Last week, newly exploited SharePoint vulnerabilities took a lot of our attention. It is fair to assume that last Monday (July 21st), all exposed vulnerable SharePoint installs were exploited. Of course, there is nothing to prevent multiple exploitation of the…

New Tool: ficheck.py, (Thu, Jul 24th)

As I mention every time I teach FOR577, I have been a big fan of file integrity monitoring tools (FIM) since Gene Kim first released Tripwire well over 30 years ago. I've used quite a few of them over the…