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John Bambenek is Vice-President of Security Research and Intelligence at ThreatSTOP where he leads the globally distributed research efforts for the company. In addition to his role there, he is a lecturer teaching cybersecurity courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Sciences and he is a handler with the SANS Internet Storm Center. He has spent 18 years in the industry helping research emerging threats and leading large-scale intelligence sharing communities to engage in targeted disruption of criminal activities online. He has developed a variety of techniques to conduct digital surveillance that is used to monitor domain generation algorithms and malware configurations which are used by thousands of organizations world-wide. In addition, he tracks financial transactions of various neonazi and supremacist individuals and organizations. He has spoken at conferences around the world, has published two books in addition to several book chapters and articles, and he once appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Recent Diaries:

• Hunting for SigRed Exploitation
• VMWare Security Advisory on DoS Vulnerability in ESXi
• MSFT July 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Solving the WHOIS and Privacy Problem: A Draft of Implementing WHOIS in DNS
• Are you Ready for DNS Flag Day?

Guy has a B.A. (IT) from University of Quebec and holds the prestigious GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification as well as the GIAC GSEC(G), GCIA(G), GCIH(G), GCUX(G), GCFA, GPEN certifications.

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Recent Diaries:

• Remote Desktop (TCP/3389) and Telnet (TCP/23), What might they have in Common?
• Scanning Activity Include Netcat Listener
• Scanning Activity for ZeroShell Unauthenticated Access
• Scanning Home Internet Facing Devices to Exploit
• tcp-honeypot.py Logstash Parser & Dashboard Update

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Recent Diaries:

• Setting up the Dshield honeypot and tcp-honeypot.py
• Stackstrings, type 2
• Seriously, SHA3 where art thou?
• Attack traffic on TCP port 9673
• Next up, what's up with TCP port 26?

Recent Diaries:

• Traffic Analysis Quiz: Oh No... Another Infection!
• Recent Dridex activity
• TA551 (Shathak) Word docs push IcedID (Bokbot)
• Traffic Analysis Quiz: What's the Malware From This Infection?
• Word docs with macros for IcedID (Bokbot)

Recent Diaries:

• After Action Review
• Visibility Gap of Your Security Tools
• What Assumptions Are You Making?
• Resolve to Be More Involved In Your Local Community - REVISITED
• Creative Hiring From Non-Traditional Places

Recent Diaries:

• Critical Vuln in vCenter vmdir (CVE-2020-3952)
• Oracle Critical Patch Update Release
• Gate to Fiesta exploit kit on 94.242.216.69
• VMWare ESX/ESXi Security Advisory
• Defending Against Web Server Denial of Service Attacks

Recent Diaries:

• Customer Service Frustration
• Email/password Frustration
• Holiday Safe Computing Tips
• Angler Exploit Kits Reported
• Cisco Security Advisories Issued

Recent Diaries:

• A blast from the past - XXEncoded VB6.0 Trojan
• Security.txt - one small file for an admin, one giant help to a security researcher
• Definition of 'overkill' - using 130 MB executable to hide 24 kB malware
• What pages do bad bots look for?
• Couple of interesting Covid-19 related stats

Recent Diaries:

• My Honeypot is Trendy, My Honeypot is Unpopular
• Sensor Ideas for DEFCON
• Weblogic Exploit Code Made Public (CVE-2018-2893)
• Reporting Malicious Websites in 2018
• Request for Packets: Port 15454

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Renato Marinho is Chief Research Officer at Morphus Labs. His journey in the area began in 2001, when he created Nettion, one of the first firewalls to use the contemporary UTM (Unified Threat Management) concept. Experienced in cyber security, Marinho was internationally recognized in 2016 by his research that unveiled Mamba, the first full disk encryption ransomware. At Morphus Labs, he oversees research, innovation and development of new products. Master and PhD candidate in Applied Informatics, he is also professor at University of Fortaleza teaching Computer Forensics in the post-graduate course. He is also a speaker having presented at Ignite Cybersecurity Conference, BSides Delaware, BSides Vienna, WSKS Portugal and Brazilian CSIRTs Forum.

Recent Diaries:

• Microsoft September 2020 Patch Tuesday
• Microsoft August 2020 Patch Tuesday
• Microsoft July 2020 Patch Tuesday - Patch Now!
• F5 BigIP vulnerability exploitation followed by a backdoor implant attempt
• Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday

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Recent Diaries:

• To the Brim at the Gates of Mordor Pt. 1
• Happy FouRth of July from the Internet Storm Center
• ISC Snapshot: SpectX IP Hitcount Query
• Cloud Security Features Don't Replace the Need for Personnel Security Capabilities
• SpectX: Log Parser for DFIR

Xavier Mertens is a freelance cyber security consultant based in Belgium. Xavier started his own company (https://xavier.mertens.consulting) in 2013 to offer pentesting, incident handling and forensic services. He holds GIAC,GFCE, GCFA, GXPN & GREM certifications and is also CISSP and CISA. Xavier has a blog about security (https://blog.rootshell.be) and is co-organizer of the BruCON security conference (http://www.brucon.org).

Recent Diaries:

• A Mix of Python & VBA in a Malicious Word Document
• Suspicious Endpoint Containment with OSSEC
• Sandbox Evasion Using NTP
• Python and Risky Windows API Calls
• Example of Malicious DLL Injected in PowerShell

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Recent Diaries:

• Building a .freq file with Public Domain Data Sources
• What is "THAT" Address Doing on my Network
• MSFT June 2019 Patch Tuesday
• Microsoft December 2018 Patch Tuesday
• OctoPrint 3D Web Interfaces: EXPOSED, Port 5000 default

Recent Diaries:

• New Internet Storm Center Director
• A Day In The Life Of A DShield Sensor
• Stuxnet Analysis
• Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 31 - Tying it all together
• Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 15 - What Teachers Need to Know About Their Students

Mr. Santander Pelaez currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer of Puntos Colombia S.A.S. . in Medellin,Colombia. His areas of interest are Intrusion Detection, Computer Forensics, Incident Response, SCADA Security, Network Design and cyberwarfare.

Recent Diaries:

• Creating patched binaries for pentesting purposes
• Performing deception to OS Fingerprint (Part 1: nmap)
• SNMP service: still opened to the public and still queried by attackers
• Enumerating office365 users
• Merry christmas!

Recent Diaries:

• Windows 7 - End of Life
• CCPA - Quick Overview
• DVRIP Port 34567 - Uptick
• Curious SNMP Traffic Spike
• XOR DDOS Mitigation and Analysis

Didier Stevens (Microsoft MVP Consumer Security) holds many certifications from SANS, Microsoft, Cisco, ... He is a Senior Analyst (NVISO https://www.nviso.be). Didier started his own company in 2012 to provide IT security training services (http://DidierStevensLabs.com). You can find his open source security tools on his IT security related blog at https://blog.DidierStevens.com.

Recent Diaries:

• Office Documents with Embedded Objects
• Office: About OLE and ZIP Files
• Finding The Original Maldoc
• Malicious Excel Sheet with a NULL VT Score: More Info
• Small Challenge: A Simple Word Maldoc - Part 4

Dr. Johannes Ullrich is the Dean of Research and a faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute. In November of 2000, Johannes started the DShield.org project, which he later integrated into the Internet Storm Center. His work with the Internet Storm Center has been widely recognized. In 2004, Network World named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the networking industry. Secure Computing Magazine named him in 2005 one of the Top 5 influential IT security thinkers. His research interests include IPv6, Network Traffic Analysis and Secure Software Development. Johannes is regularly invited to speak at conferences and has been interviewed by major publications, radio as well as TV stations. He is a member of the SANS Technology Institute's Faculty and Administration as well as Curriculum and Long Range Planning Committee. As chief research officer for the SANS Institute, Johannes is currently responsible for the GIAC Gold program. Prior to working for SANS, Johannes worked as a lead support engineer for a Web development company and as a research physicist. Johannes holds a PhD in Physics from SUNY Albany and is located in Jacksonville, Florida. More Details: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesullrich

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Recent Diaries:

• Do Vulnerabilities Ever Get Old? Recent "Mirai" Variant Scanning for 20 Year Old Amanda Version?
• Not Everything About ".well-known" is Well Known
• A First Look at macOS 11 Big Sur Network Traffic (New! Now with more GREASE!)
• Exposed Windows Domain Controllers Used in CLDAP DDoS Attacks
• CenturyLink Outage Causing Internet Wide Problems

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Recent Diaries:

• What's in Your Clipboard? Pillaging and Protecting the Clipboard
• Office 365 Mail Forwarding Rules (and other Mail Rules too)
• SHA3 Hashes (on Windows) - Where Art Thou?
• Hashes in PowerShell
• Base Conversions and Creating GUI Apps in PowerShell

Recent Diaries:

• Sigma rules! The generic signature format for SIEM systems.
• Not so FastCGI!
• Annotating Golang binaries with Cutter and Jupyter
• Introduction to analysing Go binaries
• Binary Analysis with Jupyter and Radare2

Recent Diaries:

• ISC Blocked
• Password Reuse Strikes Again!
• A few IoCs related to CVE-2020-5902
• Sextortion Update: The Final Final Chapter
• HTML based Phishing Run

Recent Diaries:

• Elastalert with Sigma
• Pi Zero HoneyPot
• TPOT's Cowrie to ISC Logs
• Using Shodan Monitoring
• CVE-2019-0604 Attack

Recent Diaries:

• Are you getting I-CANNED ?
• Decoding Pseudo-Darkleech (Part #2)
• Decoding Pseudo-Darkleech (#1)
• New Years Resolutions
• Critical Security Controls: Getting to know the unknown

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Recent Diaries:

• Scoping web application and web service penetration tests
• Scanning with nmap?s NSE scripts
• Summing up CVE-2020-0601, or the Let?s Decrypt vulnerability
• Getting the best value out of security assessments
• Testing TLSv1.3 and supported ciphers