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[This is a Guest Diary by Adam Cann, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]

Continue reading Reconnaissance First: An SSH Bot That Sizes Up Your Hardware Before Deploying a Miner [Guest Diary], (Thu, Jul 30th)→

I am a bit late with this summary, but this week Apple released updates to all its operating systems and Safari. The Safari update, as usual, targets macOS prior to macOS 26. macOS updates covered the two older versions (14 and 15), while other operating system patches only covered the current 26 versions.

Continue reading Apple Patches Everything (July 2026), (Wed, Jul 29th)→

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For a long time, AutoIT[1] has been pretty common in the malware ecosystem. Threat actors still use it because it’s easy to write and powerful. Indeed, it can perform all the required actions to inject a payload into a remote process as you’ll see below.

Continue reading AutoIT Payload Injector , (Tue, Jul 28th)→

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Spring Boot exposes the endpoint “/actuator/heapdump” to collect debug information. By default, the endpoint will return a file heapdump.hprof, which includes a binary heapdump that can be used to analyze the current state of the application. Non-Java readers may be familiar with a similar concept, core dumps, which are produced by binaries to expose a memory image at the time the software crashes. “heapdumps” are the Java analog to “core-dumps”. The heapdump often includes secrets used by the application to connect to backend systems. API keys, database passwords, and other sensitive data may be exposed in the heapdump.

Continue reading Java Spring Boot “heapdump” scans, (Mon, Jul 27th)→

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ESAFENET&#;x26;#;39;s CDG showed up in our data before. The company focused on secure document management and data leakage prevention solutions. The “CDG” stands for “Content Data Guard”, and the product appears to be mostly targeting the Chinese market [1]. Sadly, like so many security products, it suffers from basic security vulnerabilities like SQL Injection, XSS, and default passwords. We have seen scanning for ESAFENET CDG before, in particular after the cross-site scripting vulnerability was made public.

Continue reading Scans for ESAFENET CDG 3 Document Management System Weak Logins, (Sun, Jul 26th)→

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Two disclosures, five days apart, described the same intrusion from opposite ends —
one from the victim, one from the party that turned out to be responsible — and
together they make one of the more instructive incidents of the year for defenders.

Continue reading When the “Autonomous Attacker” Is Your Own AI Model, (Thu, Jul 23rd)→