DeepBlueCLI: Powershell Threat Hunting, (Tue, Jan 21st)

Happy New Year! Those among you who participated in the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge, also known as Kringlecon 2, this holiday season may have found themselves exposed to new tools or the opportunity to utilize one or two that had not hit your radar prior. Such was the case for me with DeepBlueCLI, a PowerShell module for threat hunting via Windows Event Logs.

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Summing up CVE-2020-0601, or the Let?s Decrypt vulnerability, (Thu, Jan 16th)

Last 24 hours have been extremely interesting – this month’s patch Tuesday by Microsoft brought to us 2 very interesting (and critical) vulnerabilities. The first one, the “BlueKeep†like remote code execution vulnerability in Remote Desktop Gateway (CVE-2020-0609, CVE-2020-0610) has been kind of ignored, although it’s really critical … so I guess I’ll continue doing that in this diary (but rest assured that we are keeping an eye on the RDG vulnerability as well).

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Picks of 2019 malware – the large, the small and the one full of null bytes, (Thu, Jan 16th)

Although less than two days have gone by since the latest release of MSFT patches, I find that it would actually be hard to add anything interesting to them that hasn’t been discussed before, as the most important vulnerabilities (couple of RCEs and an interesting vulnerability in CryptoAPI) seemed to be all anyone talked about for the last 24 hours. If you didn’t hear anything about it, I suggest you take a look at the ISC coverage of the CryptoAPI vulnerability[1] as well as the Patch Tuesday overview[2]. But for the rest of us, I thought today might be a good day to take a short break from this topic and take a look at what the last year brought us instead.

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CVE-2020-0601 Followup, (Wed, Jan 15th)

Among the patches Microsoft released yesterday, the vulnerability in the CryptoAPI got by far the most attention. Here are some answers to questions we have received about this vulnerability. Many of these questions also came from our webcast audience (for a recording, see https://sans.org/cryptoapi-isc ) Thanks to Jake Williams for helping us with the webcast!

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