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A brief daily summary of what is important in information security. The podcast is published every weekday and designed to get you ready for the day with a brief, usually 5 minutes long summary of cur... more
FAQs about SANS Stormcast: Daily Cyber Security News:How many episodes does SANS Stormcast: Daily Cyber Security News have?The podcast currently has 1,358 episodes available.
February 05, 2026SANS Stormcast Thursday, February 5th, 2026: Malicious Scripts; Synectix Vuln; Google Chrome; Google Looker; Malicious Script Delivering More Maliciousnesshttps://isc.sans.edu/diary/Malicious+Script+Delivering+More+Maliciousness/32682 Synectix LAN 232 TRIO Unauthenticated Web Admin CVE-2026-1633https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-26-034-04 Google Chrome Patcheshttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html LookOut: Discovering RCE and Internal Access on Looker (Google Cloud & On-Prem)https://www.tenable.com/blog/google-looker-vulnerabilities-rce-internal-access-lookout...more7minPlay
February 04, 2026SANS Stormcast Wednesday, February 4th, 2026: Detecting OpenClaw; Synology telnetd Patch; More GlassWorm Detecting and Monitoring OpenClaw (clawdbot, moltbot)https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html/Detecting+and+Monitoring+OpenClaw+%28clawdbot%2C+moltbot%29/32678/#comment Synology telnetd Patchhttps://www.synology.com/en-us/releaseNote/DSM GlassWorm Loader Hits Open VSX via Developer Account Compromisehttps://socket.dev/blog/glassworm-loader-hits-open-vsx-via-suspected-developer-account-compromise...more5minPlay
February 03, 2026SANS Stormcast Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026: Scanning for AI; Notepad++ Compromise; OpenClaw Vulnerabilities Scanning for exposed Anthropic Models https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Scanning%20for%20exposed%20Anthropic%20Models/32674 Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-chrysalis-backdoor-dive-into-lotus-blossoms-toolkit/https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/ Insecure Websockets in OpenClawhttps://zeropath.com/blog/openclaw-clawdbot-credential-theft-vulnerability Malicious OpenClaw Skillshttps://www.koi.ai/blog/clawhavoc-341-malicious-clawedbot-skills-found-by-the-bot-they-were-targeting Exposed OpenClaw Instanceshttps://censys.com/blog/openclaw-in-the-wild-mapping-the-public-exposure-of-a-viral-ai-assistant...more7minPlay
February 02, 2026SANS Stormcast Monday, February 2nd, 2026: Google Presentation Abuse; Ivanti Vuln Exploited; Microsoft NTLM Strategy Google Presentation Abusehttps://isc.sans.edu/diary/Google+Presentations+Abused+for+Phishing/32668/ Security Advisory Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) (CVE-2026-1281 & CVE-2026-1340)https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-Ivanti-Endpoint-Manager-Mobile-EPMM-CVE-2026-1281-CVE-2026-1340?language=en_US Microsoft NTLM Strategyhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/advancing-windows-security-disabling-ntlm-by-default/4489526...more8minPlay
January 30, 2026SANS Stormcast Friday, January 30th, 2026: Residential Proxy Networks; Clowdbot/Moltbot Themed Malware; eScan Malicious Updates No Place Like Home Network: Disrupting the World's Largest Residential Proxy Network Google dismantled the IPIDEA network that used residential proxies to route malicious traffic.https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network Fake Clawdbot VS Code Extension Installs ScreenConnect RAT The news about Clawdbot (now Moltbot) is used to distribute malware, in particular malicious VS Code extensions.https://www.aikido.dev/blog/fake-clawdbot-vscode-extension-malware Threat Bulletin: Critical eScan Supply Chain Compromise Anti-virus vendor eScan was compromised, and its update servers were used to install malware on some customer systems.https://www.morphisec.com/blog/critical-escan-threat-bulletin/...more7minPlay
January 29, 2026SANS Stormcast Thursday, January 29th, 2026: WebLogic AI Slop; Fortinet Patches; WebLogic AI Slop; Fortinet Patches Odd WebLogic Request. Possible CVE-2026-21962 Exploit Attempt or AI Slop? We are seeing attempts to attack CVE-2026-21962, a recent weblog vulnerability, using a non-working AI slop exploithttps://isc.sans.edu/diary/Odd%20WebLogic%20Request.%20Possible%20CVE-2026-21962%20Exploit%20Attempt%20or%20AI%20Slop%3F/32662 Fortinet Patches are Rolling Out Fortinet is starting to roll out patches for the recent SSO vulnerabilityhttps://fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/FG-IR-26-060 SolarWinds Web Helpdesk Vulnerability Another set of vulnerabilities in SolarWinds Web Helpdesk may result in unauthenticated system accesshttps://horizon3.ai/attack-research/cve-2025-40551-another-solarwinds-web-help-desk-deserialization-issue/...more7minPlay
January 28, 2026SANS Stormcast Wednesday, January 28th, 2026: Romance Scams; DoS Vuln in React Server Components; OpenSSL Patch; Kubernetes Priv Confusion Initial Stages of Romance Scams [Guest Diary] Romance scams often start with random text messages that appear to be misrouted . This guest diary by Faris Azhari is following some of the initial stages of such a scam.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Initial%20Stages%20of%20Romance%20Scams%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/32650 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in React Server Components Another folowup fix for the severe React vulnerability from last year, but now only fixing a DoS condition.https://github.com/facebook/react/security/advisories/GHSA-83fc-fqcc-2hmg OpenSSL Updates OpenSSL released its monthly updates, fixing a potential RCE.https://openssl-library.org/news/vulnerabilities/ Kubernetes Remote Code Execution Via Nodes/Proxy GET Permission Many Kubernetes Helm Charts are vulnerable to possible remote code executions due to unclear defined access controls.https://grahamhelton.com/blog/nodes-proxy-rce...more8minPlay
January 27, 2026SANS Stormcast Tuesday, January 27th, 2026: PWD scanning; MSFT Office OOB Patch; Exposed Clawdbot Scanning Webserver with pwd as a Starting Path Attackers are adding the output of the pwd command to their web scans.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/x/32654 Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability CVE-2026-21509 Microsoft released an out-of-band patch for Office fixing a currently exploited vulnerability.https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-21509 Exposed Clawdbot Instances Many users of the AI tool clawdbot expose instances without access control.https://x.com/theonejvo/status/2015485025266098536...more6minPlay
January 26, 2026SANS Stormcast Monday, January 26th, 2026: FortiOS SSO Vuln Updates; Outlook OOB Update; VMware vCenter Exploited Analysis of Single Sign-On Abuse on FortiOS Fortinet released an advisory. FortiOS devices are vulnerable if configured with any SAML integration, not just FortiCloudhttps://www.fortinet.com/blog/psirt-blogs/analysis-of-sso-abuse-on-fortios Outlook OOB Update Microsoft released a non-security OOB Update for Outlook, fixing an issue introduced with this months security patches.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-24-2026-kb5078127-os-builds-26200-7628-and-26100-7628-out-of-band-cf5777f6-bb4e-4adb-b9cd-2b64df577491 VMware vCenter Server Vulnerabilities Exploited (CVE-2024-37079, CVE-2024-37080, CVE-2024-37081) A VMWare vCenter vulnerability patched last June is now actively exploited.https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24453...more5minPlay
January 23, 2026SANS Stormcast Friday, January 23rd, 2026: Scanning AI Code; FortiGate Update; ISC BIND DoS; Trivial SmaterMail Vulnerability Is AI-Generated Code Secure? Xavier used the free static code analysis tool Bandit to review code he wrote with heavy AI support.https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Is%20AI-Generated%20Code%20Secure%3F/32648 Malicious Configuration Changes On Fortinet FortiGate Devices via SSO Accounts Arctic Wolf summarized some of the attacks it is seeing against FortiGate devices via the insufficiently patched SSL vulnerability.https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/arctic-wolf-observes-malicious-configuration-changes-fortinet-fortigate-devices-via-sso-accounts/ ISC BIND DoS vulnerability in Drone ID Records HHIT and BRID records, which are used as part of Drone ID, can be used to crash named if their length is 3 bytes.https://marlink.com/resources/knowledge-hub/isc-bind-vulnerability-discovered-and-disclosed-by-marlink-cyber/ SmarterTools SmarterMail Password Reset Vulnerability SmarterTools recently patched a trivial vulnerability in SmarterMail that would allow anybody without authentication to reset administrator passwords.https://labs.watchtowr.com/attackers-with-decompilers-strike-again-smartertools-smartermail-wt-2026-0001-auth-bypass/...more8minPlay
FAQs about SANS Stormcast: Daily Cyber Security News:How many episodes does SANS Stormcast: Daily Cyber Security News have?The podcast currently has 1,358 episodes available.