Next up, what’s up with TCP port 26?, (Mon, Dec 2nd)

Whenever I sign up for another shift, if I don&#;x26;#;39;t already have a diary topic in mind, I take a look at the top 10 ports in the dashboard when I login to isc.sans.edu. For the last few weeks, I&#;x26;#;39;ve noticed %%port:26%% showing up, so I decided to see if I could figure out what was going on there.

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Finding an Agent Tesla malware sample, (Wed, Nov 27th)

I was browsing through the Any Run sandbox looking through the public submissions of malware with pcaps of infection traffic from Tuesday 2019-11-26.&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; I found this one, and it&#;x26;#;39;s tagged agenttesla.&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; Agent Tesla is an information stealer.&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; Based on the file name, this Agent Tesla malware sample may have been disguised as an installer for Discord.

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Lessons learned from playing a willing phish, (Tue, Nov 26th)

Replying to phishing e-mails can lead to some interesting experiences (besides falling for the scams they offer, that is). Since it doesn’t require a deep technical know-how or any special expertise, it is something I recommend everyone to try out at least once, as it can lead to some funny moments and show us that the phishing trade doesn’t always operate in the way we might expect it to.

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