Critical MikroTik Vulnerability - Patch Now
Mikrotik released a patch late last week for an already-exploited vulnerability. The vulnerability allows an SSH authentication bypass and is already being exploited. At this point, assume compromise.
Search Intelligence
numbat - AI agent observability
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, September 4th, 2026
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Honeypot-Omaha and batch.py [Guest Diary]
[This is a Guest Diary by Frank Igbokwe, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] 
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
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Guildma (Astaroth) malware infection from Brazilian Portuguese email
Introduction 
The Coding-Agent Trap: When a "Free" LLM Endpoint Is the Adversary
One of my internet-exposed inference honeypots was discovered, relabeled with sought-after model names, and incorporated into infrastructure apparently used to provide "free" LLM backends. It then rec
ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 31st, 2026
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YARA-X 1.20.0 Release
YARA-X&#;x26;#;39;s 1.20.0 release brings 14 improvements and 13 bugfixes. 
Some Malicious PE Stats
During my last FOR610 session, a student asked me if I had some statistics in mind about the compilers used to generate malicious PE files? A couple of months ago, I shared some stats about the t
ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 28th, 2026
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A polymorphic phishing page (that occasionally breaks itself)
As I've mentioned before in some of my diaries, from time to time, I like to go over phishing messages that get caught in my various spam traps or sent to us here at the Internet Storm Center. &#x
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, August 27th, 2026
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Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory?
A common thing that folks should "worry" about in Entra (or any platform really) is "who has rights to administer"&#;x26;#;x3f;&#;x26;#;xc2;&&#x
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
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Obfuscating IP Addresses as Hostnames
It is pretty obvious that hostnames can replace IP addresses. Pretty much any software accepting an IP address will also accept a hostname as an argument. Last week, I wrote about scans for the cloud
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
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DOUBLECUP's PNG Payload
New malware that uses steganography always gets my attention, but I was disappointed when I looked at the latest DOUBLECUP write-up . It doesn&#;x26;#;39;t use real stegano