Critical vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise?s deployment server functionality, (Fri, Jun 17th)

Splunk published an advisory about a critical security vulnerability in deployment server, which is a component that comes installed (but not fully used) with every Splunk Enterprise installation. However, due to it being very useful, almost every organization I’ve seen (and I’m a Splunk person really) uses it – which makes this even more dangerous.

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Houdini is Back Delivered Through a JavaScript Dropper, (Thu, Jun 16th)

Houdini is a very old RAT that was discovered years ago. The first mention I found back is from 2013! Houdini is a simple remote access tool written in Visual Basic Script. The script is not very interesting because it is non-obfuscated and has just been adapted to use a new C2 server (%%ip:194.5.97.17%%:4040).

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Terraforming Honeypots. Installing DShield Sensors in the Cloud, (Wed, Jun 15th)

This is a bit different than our usual format. Instead of a blog post, we have a video presentation today: Dustin Lee, another SANS.edu undergraduate intern, put together a brief presentation about terraforming honeypots. In particular, Dustin explains how to install our honeypot with different cloud providers.

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