SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast (Stormcast)

SANS Stormcast Friday, July 31st, 2026: Pre Botnet Recon; Cisco Backdoor Exploited; Inconsistent Group Chats

Jul 31, 2026 · 5m

Summary

Host Johannes Ulrich discusses an intern’s discovery of advanced hardware fingerprinting in honeypots, likely for AI training or crypto mining. He covers a patched Cisco firewall backdoor already exploited in the wild and a new research paper on end-to-end encrypted group chat vulnerabilities allowing message manipulation. The episode concludes with brief updates on IBM WebSphere and Nginx HTTP/3 flaws.

Topics discussed

Introduction and sponsor credits Advanced hardware fingerprinting in honeypot attacks Cisco firewall management center backdoor vulnerability Vulnerabilities in end-to-end encrypted group chats IBM WebSphere and Nginx HTTP/3 updates

Listen ad-free on Castria