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SANS Stormcast Friday, January 23rd, 2026: Scanning AI Code; FortiGate Update; ISC BIND DoS; Trivial SmaterMail Vulnerability
Is AI-Generated Code Secure? Xavier used the free static code analysis tool Bandit to review code he wrote with heavy AI support. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Is%20AI-Generated%20Code%20Secure%3F/32648 Malicious Configuration Changes On Fortinet FortiGate Devices via SSO Accounts Arctic Wolf summarized some of the attacks it is seeing against FortiGate devices via the insufficiently patched SSL vulnerability. https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/arctic-wolf-observes-malicious-configuration-changes-fortinet-fortigate-devices-via-sso-accounts/ ISC BIND DoS vulnerability in Drone ID Records HHIT and BRID records, which are used as part of Drone ID, can be used to crash named if their length is 3 bytes. https://marlink.com/resources/knowledge-hub/isc-bind-vulnerability-discovered-and-disclosed-by-marlink-cyber/ SmarterTools SmarterMail Password Reset Vulnerability SmarterTools recently patched a trivial vulnerability in SmarterMail that would allow anybody without authentication to reset administrator passwords. https://labs.watchtowr.com/attackers-with-decompilers-strike-again-smartertools-smartermail-wt-2026-0001-auth-bypass/
SANS Stormcast Thursday, January 22nd, 2026: Visual Studio Code Scripts; Cisco Unified Comm and Zoom Vuln; Insufficient Fortinet Patch; SANS SOC Survey
Automatic Script Execution In Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code will read configuration files within the source code that may lead to code execution. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Automatic%20Script%20Execution%20In%20Visual%20Studio%20Code/32644 Cisco Unified Communications Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P), Cisco Unity Connection, and Cisco Webex Calling Dedicated Instance could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-voice-rce-mORhqY4b Zoom Vulnerability A Command Injection vulnerability in Zoom Node Multimedia Routers (MMRs) before version 5.2.1716.0 may allow a meeting participant to execute remote code on the MMR via network access. https://www.zoom.com/en/trust/security-bulletin/zsb-26001/ Possible new SSO Exploit (CVE-2025-59718) on 7.4.9 https://www.reddit.com/r/fortinet/comments/1qibdcb/possible_new_sso_exploit_cve202559718_on_749/ SANS SOC Survey The 2026 SOC Survey is open, and we need your input to create a meaningful report. Please share your experience so we can advocate for what actually works in the trenches. https://survey.sans.org/jfe/form/SV_3ViqWZgWnfQAzkO?is=socsurveystormcenter
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, January 21st, 2026: Punycode Hunting; telnetd vuln; 6 day Certs and IP Certs; Oracle Patches
Add Punycode to your Threat Hunting Routine Punycode patterns in DNS queries make excellent hunting opportunities. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Add%20Punycode%20to%20your%20Threat%20Hunting%20Routine/32640 GNU InetUtils Security Advisory: remote authentication by-pass intelnetd telnetd shipping with InetUtils suffers from a critical authentication by-pass vulnerability. https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2 6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available Let s Encrypt will now offer 6-day certificates as an option. These short-lived certificates can be used for IP addresses. https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability Oracle Quarterly Critical Patch Update Oracle released its first quarterly patches for 2026, fixing 337 vulnerabilities https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2026.html#AppendixFMW
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, January 20th, 2026: Scans Against LLMs; NTLM Rainbow Table; OOB MSFT Patch
"How many states are there in the United States?" Attackers are actively scanning for LLMs, fingerprinting them using the query How many states are there in the United States? . https://isc.sans.edu/diary/%22How%20many%20states%20are%20there%20in%20the%20United%20States%3F%22/32618 Closing the Door on Net-NTLMv1: Releasing Rainbow Tables to Accelerate Protocol Deprecation Mandiant is publicly releasing a comprehensive dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to underscore the urgency of migrating away from this outdated protocol. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/net-ntlmv1-deprecation-rainbow-tables Out-of-band update to address issues observed with the January 2026 Windows security update Microsoft has identified issues upon installing the January 2026 Windows security update. To address these issues, an out-of-band (OOB) update was released today, January 17, 2026 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/windows-message-center
SANS Stormcast Friday, January 16th, 2026: Cryptojacking Hidden Gifts; Bluetooth Vulnerability; Reprompt in MSFT Copilot
Battling Cryptojacking, Botnets, and IABs Cryptojacking often comes with less obvious addons, like SSH backdoors https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Battling%20Cryptojacking%2C%20Botnets%2C%20and%20IABs%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/32632 Microsoft Copilot Reprompt Attacks Adding a query parameter to the URL may prefill a Copilot prompt, altering the meaning of the prompts that follow. https://www.varonis.com/blog/reprompt Hijacking Bluetooth Accessories Using Google Fast Pair Google s fast pair protocol is often not implemented correctly, allowing the Hijacking of Bluetooth accessories https://whisperpair.eu/#about
SANS Stormcast Thursday, January 15th, 2026: Luma Streal Repeat Infection; ServiceNow Broken Auth; Starlink/GPS Jamming
Infection repeatedly adds scheduled tasks and increases traffic to the same C2 domain https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Infection%20repeatedly%20adds%20scheduled%20tasks%20and%20increases%20traffic%20to%20the%20same%20C2%20domain/32628 BodySnatcher (CVE-2025-12420): A Broken Authentication and Agentic Hijacking Vulnerability in ServiceNow https://appomni.com/ao-labs/bodysnatcher-agentic-ai-security-vulnerability-in-servicenow/ Starlink Terminal GPS Spoofing/Jamming Detection in Iran https://github.com/narimangharib/starlink-iran-gps-spoofing/blob/main/starlink-iran.md
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, January 14th, 2026: Microsoft, Adobe and Fortinet Patches; ConsentFix
Microsoft Patch Tuesday January 2026 Microsoft released patches for 113 vulnerabilities. This includes one already exploited vulnerability, one that was made public before today and eight critical vulnerabilities. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/January%202026%20Microsoft%20Patch%20Tuesday%20Summary/32624 Adobe Patches Adobe released patches for five products. The code execution vulnerabilities in ColdFusion and Acrobat Reader deserve special attention. https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html Fortinet Patches Fortnet patched two products today, one suffering from an SSRF vulnerability. https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-783 https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-084 ConsentFix: Analysing a browser-native ClickFix-style attack that hijacks OAuth consent grants Attackers are tricking victims to copy/paste OAUTH URLs, including credentials, to a fake CAPTCHA https://pushsecurity.com/blog/consentfix
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, January 13th, 2026: n8n got npm’ed; Gogs exploit; telegram proxy links
n8n supply chain attack Malicious npm pagackages were used to attempt to obtain user OAUTH credentials for NPM. https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/n8mare-on-auth-street-supply-chain-attack-targets-n8n-ecosystem Gogs 0-Day Exploited in the Wild An at the time unpachted flaw in Gogs was exploited to compromise git repos. https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-gogs-cve-2025-8110-rce-exploit Telegram Proxy Link Abuse Telegram proxy links have been abused to deanonymize users https://x.com/GangExposed_RU/status/2009961417781457129
SANS Stormcast Monday, January 12th, 2026: PEB Manipulation; YARA Update; VideoLAND and Apache NimBLE Patches
Malicious Process Environment Block Manipulation The process environment block contains metadata about particular processes, but can be manipulated. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Malicious+Process+Environment+Block+Manipulation/32614/ YARA-X 1.11.0 Release: Hash Function Warnings The latest version of YARA will warn users if a hash rule attempts to match an invalid hash. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/YARA-X%201.11.0%20Release%3A%20Hash%20Function%20Warnings/32616 VideoLAN Security Bulletin VLC 3.0.22 CVE-2025-51602 VideoLAN fixed several vulnerabilities in its VLC software. https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3022.html Apache NimBLE Bluetooth vulnerabilities NimBLE is a Bluetooth stack popular in IoT devices. An update fixes some eavesdropping and pairing vulnerabilities. https://mynewt.apache.org/cve/
SANS Stormcast Friday, January 9th, 2026: Gephi Analysis; zlib vuln; GnuPG Vulns; Cisco/Cloudflare DNS Issue
Analysis using Gephi with DShield Sensor Data Gephi is a neat tool to create interactive data visualizations. It can be applied to honeypot data to find data clusters. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Analysis%20using%20Gephi%20with%20DShield%20Sensor%20Data/32608 zlib v1.3.1.2 Global Buffer Overflow in TGZfname() of zlib untgz Utility The untgz utility that is part of zlib suffers from a straightforward buffer overflow in the filename parameter https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2026/Jan/3 GnuPG Vulnerabilities Several vulnerabilities in GnuPG were disclosed during a recent talk at the CCC congress. https://gpg.fail Cisco DNS Bug Reboot Last night, several Cisco users reported that their switches rebooted. The issue appears to be related to a change Cloudflare made in the order of CNAME records. Only users using 1.1.1.1 as a recursive resolver appear to be affected. https://community.cisco.com/t5/switches-small-business/got-fatal-error-cbs350-24t-4g/td-p/5359883?utm_source=chatgpt.com
SANS Stormcast Thursday, January 8th, 2026: HTML QR Code Phishing; n8n vulnerability; Powerbank Feature Creep
A phishing campaign with QR codes rendered using an HTML table Phishing emails are bypassing filters by encoding QR codes as HTML tables. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20phishing%20campaign%20with%20QR%20codes%20rendered%20using%20an%20HTML%20table/32606 n8n vulnerabilities In recent days, several new n8n vulnerabilities were disclosed. Ensure that you update any on-premises installations and carefully consider what to use n8n for. https://www.cyera.com/research-labs/ni8mare-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution-in-n8n-cve-2026-21858 https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/security/advisories/GHSA-v4pr-fm98-w9pg Power bank feature creep is out of control Simple power banks are increasingly equipped with advanced features, including networking, which may expose them to security risks. https://www.theverge.com/tech/856225/power-banks-are-the-latest-victims-of-feature-creep
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, January 7th, 2026: Tailsnitch Review; D-Link DSL EoL Vuln; TOTOLINK Unpatched Vuln
Tool Review: Tailsnitch Tailsnitch is a tool to audit your Tailscale configuration. It does a comprehensive analysis of your configuration and suggests (or even applies) fixes. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Tool%20Review%3A%20Tailsnitch/32602 D-Link DSL Command Injection via DNS Configuration Endpoint A new vulnerability in very old D-Link DSL modems is currently being exploited. https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/dlink-dsl-command-injection-via-dns-configuration-endpoint TOTOLINK EX200 firmware-upload error handling can activate an unauthenticated root telnet service TOTOLINK extenders may start a telnet server and allow unauthenticated access if a firmware update fails. https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/295169
SANS Stormcast Tuesday, January 6th, 2026: IPKVM Risks; Tailsnitch; Net-SNMP Vuln;
Risks of OOB Access via IP KVM Devices Recently, cheap IP KVMs have become popular. But their deployment needs to be secured. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Risks%20of%20OOB%20Access%20via%20IP%20KVM%20Devices/32598 Tailsnitch Tailsnitch is a tool to review your Tailscale configuration for vulnerabilities https://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitch Net-SNMP snmptrapd vulnerability A new vulnerability in snmptrapd may lead to remote code execution https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/security/advisories/GHSA-4389-rwqf-q9gq
SANS Stormcast Monday, January 5th, 2026: MongoBleed/React2Shell Recap; Crypto Scams; DNS Stats; Old Fortinet Vulns
Cryptocurrency Scam Emails and Web Pages As We Enter 2026 Scam emails are directing victims to confidence scams attempting to steal cryptocurrencies. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Cryptocurrency%20Scam%20Emails%20and%20Web%20Pages%20As%20We%20Enter%202026/32594 Debugging DNS response times with tshark tshark is a powerful tool to debug DNS timing issues. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Debugging+DNS+response+times+with+tshark/32592/ Old Fortinet Devices Have not been updated Over 10,000 Fortinet devices are still vulnerable to a five year old vulnerability https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-10-000-fortinet-firewalls-exposed-to-ongoing-2fa-bypass-attacks/
SANS Stormcast Sunday, December 28th, 2025: MongoDB Unauthenticated Memory Leak CVE-2025-14847
MongoDB Unauthenticated Attacker Sensitive Memory Leak CVE-2025-14847 Over the Christmas holiday, MongoDB patched a sensitive memory leak vulnerability that is now actively being exploited https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/important-mongodb-patch-available/332977 https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/505b660a14698bd2b5233bd94da3917b585c5728 https://www.ox.security/blog/attackers-could-exploit-zlib-to-exfiltrate-data-cve-2025-14847/ https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed/