Phishing e-mail that hides malicious link from Outlook users, (Wed, Jun 4th)

I recently came across an interesting phishing e-mail. At first glance, it looked like a “normal” phishing that tried to pass itself off as a message from one of the Czech banks asking account holders to update their information…

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vBulletin Exploits (CVE-2025-48827, CVE-2025-48828), (Tue, Jun 3rd)

Last week, Ryan Dewhurst disclosed an interesting and easily exploitable vulnerability in vBulltin. These days, bulletin boards are not quite as popular as they used to be, but they are still being used, and vBulletin is one of the most common commercially supported platforms to create a bulletin board. The vulnerability is remarkable as it exemplifies some common issues with patching and keeping your software up to date.

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Simple SSH Backdoor, (Mon, Jun 2nd)

For most system and network administrators, the free SSH client Putty has been their best friend for years! This tool was also (ab)used by attackers that deployed a trojanized version[1]. Microsoft had the good idea to include OpenSSH (beta version) in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. One year later, it became a default component with Windows 10 version 1803. I remember the join of type for the first time “ssh” or “scp” in a cmd.exe! SSH is a very powerful tool that can be used in multiple ways, and it was de-facto categorized as a “LOLBIN”[2].

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Usage of “passwd” Command in DShield Honeypots, (Fri, May 30th)

DShield honeypots &#;x26;#;x5b;1&#;x26;#;x5d; receive different types of attack traffic and the volume of that traffic can change over time. I&#;x26;#;39;ve been collecting data from a half dozen honeypots for a little over a year to make comparisons. This data includes:

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