10 Most Popular Targeted Ports in the Past 3 Weeks, (Sun, Jan 16th)

A review of all inbound connection over the past 3 weeks against my honeypot shows the top 2 targeted servicesÂ; ;were no surprise; a large amount of SSH (22, 2222) activity followed by Telnet (23) which Shodan still identifies over 2.7M hosts exposed to the Internet.

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A Quick CVE-2022-21907 FAQ, (Wed, Jan 12th)

Quick summary: There has been relatively little news after the vulnerability was released. I think a couple of things are happening: (1) This is a relatively straightforward Windows patch. Unlike for example log4j, inventory is less of an issue here. Enterprises tend to have a reasonably good handle on patching Windows. (2) Just like prior http.sys vulnerabilities, this one is likely not that easy to exploit. We will see what happens and there could still be a surprise out there. So keep patching. There is one unverified exploit claim so far.

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