Vulnerabilities
Given the recent discovery of a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-64446) in the Fortiweb appliances (exploitable via the management interfaces) I thought I would have a look at what other vulnerabilities have been discovered/published and what Proof of Concept (PoC) exploits exist in 2025.
Read more “Fortiweb Vulnerabilities 2025”
Threat Intel
A common perimeter firewall in organisations is the CISCO ASA. Back when I started in the industry we used to have CISCO PIX firewalls, the ASA was the next generation of these! Why is this important? Well its important to understand how common threat actors work, you will see from a while ago I wrote a review of the manual 2.0 by Bassterlord (a known cybercriminal), this is to help understand how attackers work, what real world cybercrime looks like so that we can enable people to help defend against these threats.
Read more “Analysing 1 Million Honeypot events with Defused Cyber Deception”
Threat Intel
I’ve not blogged in a while, but I wanted to put down a note of some useful tools people can use to help them combat cyber crime.
This isn’t going to be an in depth look at each tool, however I do want to, in the near future, try and do some demos/videos etc. of how to investigate potential/suspected or identified threats. I’ll drop a list of some of the useful tools below and also do a quick demo of investigating an event (from this blog)
Read more “Threat Analysis Tools”
Defence
I talk to hundreds or maybe even thousands of people online. I work in the Cyber security industry, I worked previously with central government, local authorities, finance, third sector, healthcare, defence and well most verticals of business. I often see people comment online about how “GCHQ has failed” or some other silly nonsense when it comes to an organisation (not GCHQ) being victim to a cyber incident.
I fear the world has watched a few too many Bond and Bourne films and let’s their imaginations run wild! The true reality of defending cyberspace is frankly vastly different to what I think people believe it is.
Read more “No one is responsible for your OWN Cyber Defences other than you! “
Hacking
Working in Cyber security can expose you to all kinds of information. I’m an offensive and defensive security architect and occasional (haha that’s daily right!) pew pew slinger (pentester) and I am also a threat intelligence practioner (CTI) (we need The Many Hats Club back!). Which is why sometimes when things appear on the internet I think I decide to take a look.
Read more “The Manual Version 2.0”
Guides
There are so many lists of “tools” of “free resources” for “cyber” etc. Well I don’t want to make a list of stuff for social media, this isn’t the TOP x tools, this is simply some resources that I use on a regular basis that should give people a fairly good idea of where to start looking. Cyber sleuthing is a mixture of:
Vulnerabilities
There appears to be a new RCE out for Fortinet devices as per this post (it’s against FortiNAC as far I am aware so this is probably a much smaller exposure footprint than all fortinet devices):
https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-22-300
There’s also this in FortiWeb (and well they released 40 odd fixes to various bits)
https://www.fortiguard.com/psirt/FG-IR-21-186
When we consider security edge devices and the risks these may pose to organizations and society as a whole it’s important to understand that these are no trivial matter. These are “security” appliances that are there to protect your organizations, to provide remote access as well as protect network egress etc.
Fortinet are not the only vendor to suffer from these types of vulnerability (Remote Code Execution – RCE) however there do appear to have been quite a few of these when looking historically.
Read more “CVE-2022-39952 Fortinet Global Exposure”
Education
The loss of availability Ransomware causes is enough to make your day/week/s bad, the loss of data, bad month/quarter or longer.
Lockbit posted “Royal Mail need new negotiator.” Followed by “ALL AVAILABLE DATA PUBLISHED !”
What we actually found is that they published the chat history:
Read more “Lockbit 3.0 and Royal Mail – Chats Published”
Threat Intel
Adversary: Unknown, likely Criminal Actor/s
Initial Access Vector: Unknown/Unproven
Impact: ~3K+ Hosts have had Remote Code Execute and their ESXi logon pages changed (plus had encryption routines run to encrypt virtual machines, with varying success). A Second encryption routine has been deployed to some hosts; the threat actor is expanding/changing capabilities.
Risk: Further impact, Additional Threat Actors Exploit the vulnerability
Read more “ESXiargs Summary 09-02-2023 10:03”
Threat Intel
When running honeypots you never have to wait too long for something to drop!
This moring we had a new hit in the pot, so I decided to invesigate but also to blog and show how we could go about investigating the logs and paylods etc.
Read more “Learn to SOC: Java Webshell via confluence”