A brief daily summary of what is important in information security. The podcast is published every weekday and designed to get you ready for the day with a brief, usually 5 minute long, summary of current network security related events. The content is late breaking, educational and based on listener input as well as on input received by the SANS Internet Stormcenter. You may submit questions and comments via our contact form at https://isc.sans.edu/contact.html .
SANS Stormcast Friday, February 13th, 2026: SSH Bot; OpenSSH MacOS Change; Abused Employee Monitoring
February 12, 2026
5:43
0.95 MB ( 3.85 MB less)
Downloads: 0
Four Seconds to Botnet - Analyzing a Self-Propagating SSH Worm with Cryptographically Signed C2 [Guest Diary]
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Four%20Seconds%20to%20Botnet%20-%20Analyzing%20a%20Self%20Propagating%20SSH%20Worm%20with%20Cryptographically%20Signed%20C2%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/32708
OpenSSH Update on MacOS
https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html
Employee Monitoring and SimpleHelp Software Abused in Ransomware Operations
https://www.huntress.com/blog/employee-monitoring-simplehelp-abused-in-ransomware-operations