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ISC Handlers

Recent Diaries:

• Introduction to KAPE
• OWASP Top 10 Internet of Things 2018"
• Live memory analysis using Rekall
• Using AutorunsToWinEventLog
• [Wireshark-announce] Wireshark 2.5.1 is now available

John Bambenek is Vice-President of Security Research and Intelligence at ThreatSTOP where he leads the globally distributed research efforts for the company. In addition to his role there, he is a lecturer teaching cybersecurity courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Sciences and he is a handler with the SANS Internet Storm Center. He has spent 18 years in the industry helping research emerging threats and leading large-scale intelligence sharing communities to engage in targeted disruption of criminal activities online. He has developed a variety of techniques to conduct digital surveillance that is used to monitor domain generation algorithms and malware configurations which are used by thousands of organizations world-wide. In addition, he tracks financial transactions of various neonazi and supremacist individuals and organizations. He has spoken at conferences around the world, has published two books in addition to several book chapters and articles, and he once appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Recent Diaries:

• VMWare Security Advisory on DoS Vulnerability in ESXi
• MSFT July 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Solving the WHOIS and Privacy Problem: A Draft of Implementing WHOIS in DNS
• Are you Ready for DNS Flag Day?
• Sextortion Bitcoin on the Move

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Recent Diaries:

• Fake Netflix Update Request by Text
• Unusual Activity with Double Base64 Encoding
• Scanning Activity for NVMS-9000 Digital Video Recorder
• Unidentified Scanning Activity
• Are there any Advantages of Buying Cyber Security Insurance?

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Recent Diaries:

• What's up with TCP 853 (DNS over TLS)?
• Buffer overflows found in libpcap and tcpdump
• A few Ghidra tips for IDA users, part 4 - function call graphs
• A few Ghidra tips for IDA users, part 3 - conversion, labels, and comments
• A few Ghidra tips for IDA users, part 2 - strings and parameters

Recent Diaries:

• A day in the life of a pentester, or is my job is too sexy for me?
• YASRV (Yet Another Struts RCE Vulnerability) yes a different one from yesterday
• Equifax breach
• Modern Web Application Penetration Testing , Hash Length Extension Attacks
• Struts vulnerability patch released by apache, patch now

Recent Diaries:

• An example of malspam pushing Lokibot malware, November 2019
• More malspam pushing Formbook
• What data does Vidar malware steal from an infected host?
• A recent example of Emotet malspam
• Malspam pushing Quasar RAT

Recent Diaries:

• What Assumptions Are You Making?
• Resolve to Be More Involved In Your Local Community - REVISITED
• Creative Hiring From Non-Traditional Places
• What Systems Keep You Effective?
• Is Your SOC Flying Blind?

Recent Diaries:

• Oracle Critical Patch Update Release
• Gate to Fiesta exploit kit on 94.242.216.69
• VMWare ESX/ESXi Security Advisory
• Defending Against Web Server Denial of Service Attacks
• ISC BIND DoS

Recent Diaries:

• Gift Card Scams on the rise
• Phishing Attempts That Bypass 2FA
• XPS Attachment Used for Phishing
• SMTP Strangeness - Possible C2
• Vulnerabilities on the Rise?

Recent Diaries:

• Did the recent malicious BlueKeep campaign have any positive impact when it comes to patching?
• EML attachments in O365 - a recipe for phishing
• Phishing e-mail spoofing SPF-enabled domain

Recent Diaries:

• My Honeypot is Trendy, My Honeypot is Unpopular
• Sensor Ideas for DEFCON
• Weblogic Exploit Code Made Public (CVE-2018-2893)
• Reporting Malicious Websites in 2018
• Request for Packets: Port 15454

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Renato Marinho is Chief Research Officer at Morphus Labs. His journey in the area began in 2001, when he created Nettion, one of the first firewalls to use the contemporary UTM (Unified Threat Management) concept. Experienced in cyber security, Marinho was internationally recognized in 2016 by his research that unveiled Mamba, the first full disk encryption ransomware. At Morphus Labs, he oversees research, innovation and development of new products. Master and PhD candidate in Applied Informatics, he is also professor at University of Fortaleza teaching Computer Forensics in the post-graduate course. He is also a speaker having presented at Ignite Cybersecurity Conference, BSides Delaware, BSides Vienna, WSKS Portugal and Brazilian CSIRTs Forum.

Recent Diaries:

• Microsoft October 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Microsoft September 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Guildma malware is now accessing Facebook and YouTube to keep up-to-date
• GoldBrute Botnet Brute Forcing 1.5 Million RDP Servers
• Microsoft May 2019 Patch Tuesday

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Recent Diaries:

• visNetwork for Network Data
• KAPE: Kroll Artifact Parser and Extractor
• Commando VM: The Complete Mandiant Offensive VM
• ISC snapshot: r-cyber with rud.is
• Beagle: Graph transforms for DFIR data & logs

Xavier Mertens is a freelance cyber security consultant based in Belgium. Xavier started his own company (https://xavier.mertens.consulting) in 2013 to offer pentesting, incident handling and forensic services. He holds GIAC,GFCE, GCFA, GXPN & GREM certifications and is also CISSP and CISA. Xavier has a blog about security (https://blog.rootshell.be) and is co-organizer of the BruCON security conference (http://www.brucon.org).

Recent Diaries:

• Microsoft Apps Diverted from Their Main Use
• Keep an Eye on Remote Access to Mailboxes
• Generating PCAP Files from YAML
• Quick Malicious VBS Analysis
• Security Monitoring: At Network or Host Level?

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Recent Diaries:

• What is "THAT" Address Doing on my Network
• MSFT June 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Microsoft December 2018 Patch Tuesday
• OctoPrint 3D Web Interfaces: EXPOSED, Port 5000 default
• Back to Basics: Backups and Data Recovery "The Home Office Edition"

Recent Diaries:

• New Internet Storm Center Director
• A Day In The Life Of A DShield Sensor
• Stuxnet Analysis
• Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 31 - Tying it all together
• Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 15 - What Teachers Need to Know About Their Students

Mr. Santander Pelaez currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer of Puntos Colombia S.A.S. . in Medellin,Colombia. His areas of interest are Intrusion Detection, Computer Forensics, Incident Response, SCADA Security, Network Design and cyberwarfare.

Recent Diaries:

• The danger of sending information for API consumption without adequate security measures
• Another quickie: Discovering patterns in network traffic with silk
• Effective security governance
• Encryption inside Utility Industrial Control Systems (ICS) communication protocols: a must to preserve the confidentiality of information and reliability of the industrial process
• CVE-2016-7461: VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address critical out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability

Recent Diaries:

• DVRIP Port 34567 - Uptick
• Curious SNMP Traffic Spike
• XOR DDOS Mitigation and Analysis
• Social Engineering Alive and Well
• NTP DDoS Counts Have Dropped

Didier Stevens (Microsoft MVP Consumer Security) holds many certifications from SANS, Microsoft, Cisco, ... He is a Senior Analyst (NVISO https://www.nviso.be). Didier started his own company in 2012 to provide IT security training services (http://DidierStevensLabs.com). You can find his open source security tools on his IT security related blog at https://blog.DidierStevens.com.

Recent Diaries:

• You Too? "Unusual Activity with Double Base64 Encoding"
• Remark on EML Attachments
• Tip: Password Managers and 2FA
• Using scdbg to Find Shellcode
• Wireshark 3.0.6 Released

Dr. Johannes Ullrich is the Dean of Research and a faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute. In November of 2000, Johannes started the DShield.org project, which he later integrated into the Internet Storm Center. His work with the Internet Storm Center has been widely recognized. In 2004, Network World named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the networking industry. Secure Computing Magazine named him in 2005 one of the Top 5 influential IT security thinkers. His research interests include IPv6, Network Traffic Analysis and Secure Software Development. Johannes is regularly invited to speak at conferences and has been interviewed by major publications, radio as well as TV stations. He is a member of the SANS Technology Institute's Faculty and Administration as well as Curriculum and Long Range Planning Committee. As chief research officer for the SANS Institute, Johannes is currently responsible for the GIAC Gold program. Prior to working for SANS, Johannes worked as a lead support engineer for a Web development company and as a research physicist. Johannes holds a PhD in Physics from SUNY Albany and is located in Jacksonville, Florida. More Details: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesullrich

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Recent Diaries:

• November 2019 Microsoft Patch Tuesday
• Are We Going Back to TheMoon (and How is Liquor Involved)?
• rConfig Install Directory Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited
• Your Supply Chain Doesn't End At Receiving: How Do You Decommission Network Equipment?
• When MacOS Catalina Comes to Life: The First Few Minutes of Network Traffic From MacOS 10.15.

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Recent Diaries:

• VMware Patch Alert!
• More on DNS Archeology (with PowerShell)
• Mining Live Networks for OUI Data Oddness
• Vulnerability on specific Cisco Industrial / Grid router models
• Mining MAC Address and OUI Information

Recent Diaries:

• Annotating Golang binaries with Cutter and Jupyter
• Introduction to analysing Go binaries
• Binary Analysis with Jupyter and Radare2
• Analysing meterpreter payload with Ghidra
• A Dive into malicious Docker Containers

Recent Diaries:

• Bluekeep exploitation causing Bluekeep vulnerability scan to fail
• Sextortion: Follow the Money - The Final Chapter
• Scanning for Bluekeep vulnerable RDP instances
• OpSec and OSInt
• Sextortion: Follow the Money Part 3 - The cashout begins!

Recent Diaries:

• Using Shodan Monitoring
• CVE-2019-0604 Attack
• Critical Cisco Wireless Patch for RV Series, CVE-2019-1663.
• Phishing impersonations
• Playing with T-POT

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Recent Diaries:

• Getting the best value out of security assessments
• Testing TLSv1.3 and supported ciphers
• Verifying SSL/TLS configuration (part 2)
• Verifying SSL/TLS configuration (part 1)
• Time is (partially) on our side: the new Exim vulnerability