Volunteer incident handlers donate their valuable time to analyze detects and anomalies, and post a daily diary of their analysis and thoughts on the Storm Center web site. Below you will find Handler details including personal pages, additional scripts or papers, or whatever the respective handler is interested in offering. All content is owned by the respective handler.
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Current Handlers
Basil Alawi S.Taher
John Bambenek
Guy Bruneau
Jim Clausing
Adrien de Beaupre
Brad Duncan
Russell Eubanks
Scott Fendley
Deborah Hale
Mark Hofman
Lorna Hutcheson
Kevin Liston
Kyle Lysek
Renato Marinho
Russ McRee
Xavier Mertens
Richard Porter
Marcus Sachs
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Kevin Shortt
Didier Stevens
Pasquale Stirparo
Johannes Ullrich
Rob VandenBrink
Remco Verhoef
Rick Wanner
Tom Webb
Bojan Zdrnja
Basil Alawi S.Taher
Recent Diaries:
- [Wireshark-announce] Wireshark 2.5.1 is now available
- VMWARE Security Advisory: VMSA-2018-0008
- Using Yara rules with Volatility
- VMware Security Advisories -VMSA-2017-0014
- Triaging suspicious files with pestudio
John Bambenek
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.
| Twitter: | @bambenek |
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Recent Diaries:
- Life after GDPR: Implications for Cybersecurity
- Spectre and Meltdown: What You Need to Know Right Now
- Phishing to Rural America Leads to Six-figure Wire Fraud Losses
- I'm All Up in Your Blockchain, Pilfering Your Wallets
- Great Misadventures of Security Vendors: Absurd Sandboxing Edition
Guy Bruneau
| Twitter: | @guybruneau |
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Recent Diaries:
- Capture and Analysis of User Agents
- Scans Attempting to use PowerShell to Download PHP Script
- Scanning for Apache Struts Vulnerability CVE-2017-5638
- Blackhole Advertising Sites with Pi-hole
- SSH Scans by Clients Types
Jim Clausing
| Twitter: | @jclausing |
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Recent Diaries:
- Followup to IPv6 brute force and IPv6 blocking
- Are you watching for brute force attacks on IPv6?
- What is going on with port 3333?
- Forensic use of mount --bind
- New tool: mac-robber.py
Adrien de Beaupre
| Twitter: | @adriendb |
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Recent Diaries:
- YASRV (Yet Another Struts RCE Vulnerability) yes a different one from yesterday
- Equifax breach
- Modern Web Application Penetration Testing , Hash Length Extension Attacks
- Struts vulnerability patch released by apache, patch now
- A day in the life of a pentester, or is my job is too sexy for me?
Brad Duncan
| Twitter: | @malware_traffic |
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Recent Diaries:
- More malspam pushing Lokibot
- Malspam pushing coin miner and other malware
- Cryptocurrency-themed phishing emails
- Phishing emails for fake MyEtherWallet login page
- Malspam pushing Trickbot malware on Friday 2018-05-11
Russell Eubanks
| Twitter: | @russelleubanks |
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Recent Diaries:
- What Systems Keep You Effective?
- Is Your SOC Flying Blind?
- Version 7 of the CIS Controls Released
- CIS Controls Version 7
- CIS Controls Implementation Guide for Small-and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Scott Fendley
| Twitter: | @itsecuritygeek |
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Recent Diaries:
- Gate to Fiesta exploit kit on 94.242.216.69
- VMWare ESX/ESXi Security Advisory
- Defending Against Web Server Denial of Service Attacks
- ISC BIND DoS
- Apple Blocks Older Insecure Versions of Flash Player
Deborah Hale
Recent Diaries:
- Holiday Safe Computing Tips
- Angler Exploit Kits Reported
- Cisco Security Advisories Issued
- Dropbox Breach
- The life of an IT Manager
Mark Hofman
Recent Diaries:
- Business Email Compromise incidents
- PCI DSS version 3.2.1 is out
- EFAIL, a weakness in openPGP and S\MIME
- The joys of changing Privacy Laws
- DUHK attack, continuing a week of named issues
Lorna Hutcheson
Recent Diaries:
- SMTP Strangeness - Possible C2
- Vulnerabilities on the Rise?
- Who's Borrowing your Resources?
- Good Analysis = Understanding(tools + logs + normal)
- What is going on with Port 83?
Kevin Liston
Recent Diaries:
- Do you hear Laurel or Yanny or is it On-Off Keying?
- Getting Incident Response Help from Richard Feynman
- Drupal CVE-2018-7600 PoC is Public
- How did this Memcache thing happen?
- Cisco ASA WebVPN Vulnerability
Kyle Lysek
Renato Marinho
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.
| Twitter: | @renato_marinho |
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Recent Diaries:
- WebLogic Exploited in the Wild (Again)
- Cisco Smart Install vulnerability exploited in the wild
- ARP Spoofing in 2018: are you protected?
- Apache SOLR: the new target for cryptominers
- Statically Unpacking a Brazilian Banker Malware
Russ McRee
| Twitter: | @holisticinfosec |
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Recent Diaries:
- Anomaly Detection & Threat Hunting with Anomalize
- Windows Commands Reference - An InfoSec Must Have
- Threat Hunting & Adversary Emulation: The HELK vs APTSimulator - Part 2
- Threat Hunting & Adversary Emulation: The HELK vs APTSimulator - Part 1
- GitHub InfoSec Threepeat: HELK, ptf, and VulnWhisperer
Xavier Mertens
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).
| Twitter: | @xme |
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Recent Diaries:
- Malicious JavaScript Targeting Mobile Browsers
- A Bunch of Compromized Wordpress Sites
- Converting PCAP Web Traffic to Apache Log
- Malicious Post-Exploitation Batch File
- Antivirus Evasion? Easy as 1,2,3
Richard Porter
| Twitter: | @packetalien |
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Recent Diaries:
- Back to Basics: Backups and Data Recovery "The Home Office Edition"
- Macro-less Code Execution in MS Word
- October 2017 Security Updates
- Back to Basics: Writing Change Requests in Natural Language
- Wait What? We don?t have to change passwords every 90 days?
Marcus Sachs
| Twitter: | @MarcusSachs |
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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
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
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.
| Twitter: | @manuelsantander |
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Recent Diaries:
- Effective security governance
- Encryption inside Utility Industrial Control Systems (ICS) communication protocols: a must to preserve the confidentiality of information and reliability of the industrial process
- CVE-2016-7461: VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address critical out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability
- Performing network forensics with Dshell. Part 2: Decoder development process
- VMWare Security Advisories VMSA-2016-0005
Kevin Shortt
| Twitter: | @Kevin_Shortt |
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Recent Diaries:
- Curious SNMP Traffic Spike
- XOR DDOS Mitigation and Analysis
- Social Engineering Alive and Well
- NTP DDoS Counts Have Dropped
- Avast forums hacked
Didier Stevens
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.
| Twitter: | @DidierStevens |
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Recent Diaries:
- Encrypted Office Documents
- Quick analysis of malware created with NSIS
- DASAN GPON home routers exploits in-the-wild
- New IE 0-day in the wild
- A malicious word document with a VBA form - video
Pasquale Stirparo
| Twitter: | @pstirparo |
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Recent Diaries:
- Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, WCry and Lazarus (ACH part 2)
- Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH part 1)
- How many “Epoch” times? Epocalypse.py timestamp converter
- Defining Threat Intelligence Requirements
- Volatility Bot: Automated Memory Analysis
Johannes Ullrich
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
| Twitter: | @johullrich |
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Recent Diaries:
- Microsoft June 2018 Patch Tuesday
- Apple Security Updates
- Resetting Your Router the Paranoid (=Right) Way
- DNS is Changing. Are you Ready?
- Insecure Claymore Miner Management API Exploited in the Wild
Rob VandenBrink
| Twitter: | @rvandenbrink |
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Recent Diaries:
- Digging into Authenticode Certificates
- Cracking AD Domain Passwords (Password Assessments) - Part 1 - Collecting Hashes
- Passwords Part 2 - Passwords off the Wire using LLMNR
- Should We Call it Quits for Passwords? Or, "Password Spraying for the Win!"
- What is My IP Again?
Remco Verhoef
| Twitter: | @remco_verhoef |
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Recent Diaries:
- From Microtik with Love
- Automated twitter loot collection
- Binary analysis with Radare2
- Track naughty and nice binaries with Google Santa
- Anatomy of a Redis mining worm
Rick Wanner
| Twitter: | @namedeplume |
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Recent Diaries:
- Something Wicked this way comes
- Microsoft Security Update for Spectre V2
- Increase in port 2580 probe sources
- Flaw in Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT)
- One year Anniversary of Dyn DDOS
Tom Webb
| Twitter: | @twsecblog |
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Recent Diaries:
- More Threat Hunting with User Agent and Drupal Exploits
- Tax Phishing Time
- IR using the Hive Project.
- Remote SOC Workers Concerns
- Summer STEM for Kids
Bojan Zdrnja
| Twitter: | @bojanz |
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Recent Diaries:
- The end of the lock icon
- Exfiltrating data from (very) isolated environments
- One hash to rule them all: drupalgeddon2
- Side-channel information leakage in mobile applications
- SQL injection and division by zero exceptions
