What do Ports Hear When Nobody's Listening? An Assessment of Automated Cybercrime [Guest Diary], (Wed, Jun 24th)
2026-06-25T19:23:47Z•3fa9801dfcc9838a1ec2f9cac1534f6f3fa5f2df1c9f63d6fd574d23835fd8ef
CVE-2024-40766T1036Velvet Ante-bankingincident-responseipv4-mapped-ipv6ipv6linuxmisconfigurationphishingprocess-masqueradingrootkitssh-bruteforcethreat-huntingwebshell
What happened
ISC SANS diaries (Jun 17–25, 2026) cover multiple active threats and observations: Linux process-name masquerading (MITRE T1036) and rootkit techniques used to hide malicious processes (noting examples like the Velvet Ant group); continued prevalence of webshells including recently-published variants on GitHub; targeted e-banking phishing leveraging IPv4‑mapped IPv6 addresses; and an analysis of coordinated SSH brute-force activity over the prior three months. A specific disclosure (CVE-2024-40766) is highlighted where a patch fixed the bug but an insecure configuration remained in many cases.
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- sans_isc_diary
- Record identifier
- 3fa9801dfcc9838a1ec2f9cac1534f6f3fa5f2df1c9f63d6fd574d23835fd8ef
- Enrichment time
- 2026-06-25T19:23:47Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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