Panchan's Mining Island [Guest Diary], (Wed, Oct 14th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Zachary Norwood, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
Continuous enterprise threat intelligence tracking active in-the-wild zero-days (CISA KEV), Microsoft Windows KB cumulative updates, MSRC security advisories, and CVE remediation.
[This is a Guest Diary by Zachary Norwood, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Thursday, October 15th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10138, (Thu, Oct 15th).
Years ago I wrote diary entries about VBA code stored inside AutoCAD drawing files (.dwg).
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, October 14th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10136, (Wed, Oct 14th).
Microsoft today released patches for 1,417 vulnerabilities. 76 of these vulnerabilities are rated critical, with 7 critical vulnerabiilties requiring no customer actions. One vulnerability was disclosed before today's patch Tuesday, and one is already exploited.
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, October 13th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10134, (Tue, Oct 13th).
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Monday, October 12th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10132, (Mon, Oct 12th).
The Traffic Light Protocol (TLP)[1], which is now in its second incarnation, is a wonderful standard that enables one to easily communicate whether information may be shared further (and if so, how far).
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Friday, October 9th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10130, (Fri, Oct 9th).
We just did a major update to FOR577 and added a lot of new material on day 5 about investigating AI usage in incident response. In the new material we dicsuss 8 of the most popular AI coding assistants and agents including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Copilot, Warp, Windsurf, and Qwen Code. I've been using Claude Code and a little bit of Codex, b…
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Thursday, October 8th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10128, (Thu, Oct 8th).
On October 5th, Atlassian published patches for multiple products to fix an "Arbitrary File Access" vulnerability [CVE-2026-21589]. An attacker can read arbitrary files in the web application's directory, potentially exposing sensitive information such as configuration files.
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, October 7th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10126, (Wed, Oct 7th).
It seems that a trend started… I continue my journey discovering more RMM ("Remote Management & Monitoring") tools abused by threat actors! A few days ago, I wrote a diary[1] about ScreenConnect used in the wild. Today, I found another one.
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, October 6th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10124, (Tue, Oct 6th).
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Monday, October 5th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10122, (Mon, Oct 5th).
For an experiment, I created a script [1] that parses and send the TTY logs collected from actors or bots activity that run various commands after they successfully login the DShield sensor. Those TTY logs are sent daily at the end of each day to the DShield SIEM [2] to be correlated with all the data.
Sometimes I have to smile, or my interest is triggered, when I review new User Agent Strings in the honeypot logs.
YARA-X's 1.21.0 release brings 5 improvements and 4 bugfixes.
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Friday, October 2nd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10120, (Fri, Oct 2nd).
Threat Actors do not always use top-notch techniques or very complex malware to perform their attacks. Sometimes, they just abuse of existing applications...
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Thursday, October 1st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10118, (Thu, Oct 1st).
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, September 30th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10116, (Wed, Sep 30th).
Starting yesterday, our sensors picked up a small number of scans for "wordfence-waf.php". This particular script is used by Wordfence, a solution to protect WordPress sites. During the Wordfence install, the wordpress-waf.php file will be created in the site's root directory [1].