SANS Stormcast Wednesday, November 19th, 2025: Kong Tuke; Cloudflare Outage
KongTuke Activity
This diary investigates how a recent Kong Tuke infections evolved all the way from starting with a ClickFix attack.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/KongTuke%20activity/32498
Cloudflare Outage
Cloudflare suffered a large outage today after an oversized configuration file was loaded into its bot protection service
https://x.com/dok2001
Google Patches Chrome 0-Day
Google patched two vulnerabilities in Chrome. One of them is already being exploited.
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_17.html
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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 18th, 2025: Binary Expression Decoding. Tea NPM Pollution; IBM AIX NIMSH Vulnerability
Decoding Binary Numeric Expressions
Didier updated his number to hex script to support simple arithmetic operations in the text.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Decoding%20Binary%20Numeric%20Expressions/32490
Tea Token NPM Pollution
The NPM repository was hit with around 150,000 submissions that did not contain any useful contributions, but instead attempted to fake contributions to earn a new tea coin.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-inspector-detects-over-150000-malicious-packages-linked-to-token-farming-campaign/
IBM AIX NIMSH Vulnerabilities
IBM patched several critical vulnerablities in the NIMSH daemon
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7251173
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SANS Stormcast Monday, November 17th, 2025: New(isch) Fortiweb Vulnerability; Finger and ClickFix
Fortiweb Vulnerability
Fortinet, with significant delay, acknowledged a recently patched vulnerability after exploit attempts were seen publicly.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Honeypot+FortiWeb+CVE202564446+Exploits/32486
https://labs.watchtowr.com/when-the-impersonation-function-gets-used-to-impersonate-users-fortinet-fortiweb-auth-bypass/
https://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-25-910?ref=labs.watchtowr.com
Flnger.exe and ClickFix
Attackers started to use the finger.exe binary to retrieve additional payload in ClickFix attacks
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Finger.exe%20%26%20ClickFix/32492
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SANS Stormcast Friday, November 14th, 2025: SmartApeSG and ClickFix; Formbook Obfuscation Tricks; Sudo-rs Vulnerabilities; SANS Holiday Hack Challenge
SmartApeSG campaign uses ClickFix page to push NetSupport RAT
A detailed analysis of a recent SamtApeSG campaign taking advantage of ClickFix
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/32474
Formbook Delivered Through Multiple Scripts
An analysis of a recent version of Formbook showing how it takes advantage of multiple obfuscation tricks
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/32480
sudo-rs vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities were patched in sudo-rs, the version of sudo written in Rust, showing that while Rust does have an advantage when it comes to memory safety, there are plenty of other vulnerabilities to worry about
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7867-1
https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-c978-wq47-pvvw?ref=itsfoss.com
SANS Holiday Hack Challenge
https://sans.org/HolidayHack
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SANS Stormcast Thursday, November 13th, 2025: OWASP Top 10 Update; Cisco/Citrix Exploits; Test post quantum readiness
OWASP Top 10 2025 Release Candidate
OWASP published a release candidate for the 2025 version of its Top 10 list
https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/0x00_2025-Introduction/
Citrix/Cisco Exploitation Details
Amazon detailed how Citrix and Cisco vulnerabilities were used by advanced actors to upload webshells
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-discovers-apt-exploiting-cisco-and-citrix-zero-days/
Testing Quantum Readyness
A website tests your services for post-quantum computing-resistant cryptographic algorithms
https://qcready.com/
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