What do Ports Hear When Nobody's Listening? An Assessment of Automated Cybercrime [Guest Diary], (Wed, Jun 24th)

2026-06-26T07:23:48Z563c4dade5cb82b9520ad3829876cfe19ac322abc7946e22fba7b901e80f8d14
CVE-2024-40766ISCSANST1036VelvetAntcredential-attackeBankingipv4-mapped-ipv6ipv6linuxmalware-obfuscationmisconfigurationpatchingphishingprocess-masqueradingrootkitssh-bruteforcethreat-huntingwebshell

What happened

ISC SANS diary entries (Jun 17–25, 2026) covering several operational threats and observations: a detailed discussion of Linux process name masquerading (MITRE T1036) and rootkit/obfuscation techniques (including reference to the Velvet Ant group); renewed notes about active webshells (new variants observed on GitHub); an eBanking phishing campaign leveraging IPv4‑mapped IPv6 addresses; analysis of coordinated SSH brute‑force activity over the prior three months; and a post about CVE-2024-40766 where the vendor patch fixed the bug but an insecure configuration remained. Actionable defender op‑

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