Three new CVEs for Cisco AnyConnect/ASA

CVE-2025-20333
CVE-2025-20363
CVE-2025-20362

Chained and under active exploitation since earlier in the year

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-webvpn-z5xP8EUB

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-http-code-exec-WmfP3h3O

#CyberWillyWave

i can finally share the google docs attack poc from my slides!!

blogpost coming later

(video 1/2 - the attack)

🔴 We just published our Black Hat Arsenal talk (part 1)!

It's a brief tutorial on:

1. using rev.ng from the CLI;
2. playing around with the decompiled code in VSCode;
3. finding bugs with clang static analyzer! 🦾

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ph_kQr064w

I didn't know how to explain it at the time but we have words for my bug report now: I used the SSDP RFC -> LLM-generated EBNF grammar -> vibe-coded Rust compiler for EBNF to Protobuf -> vibe-coded C++ frontend -> vibe-coded root cause -> vibe-coded report https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40070891

🏆 VB2025 Péter Szőr Award — Finalists Announced!

We're excited to reveal the three shortlisted finalists for this year’s Péter Szőr Award, selected by committee vote

The winner will be announced at the Gala Dinner this evening, Thursday 25 September, at VB2025 in Berlin.

We need an internet archive outside the US! We can't put all our eggs in one basket.

Oh, wait: we *have* an internet archive outside the US. Let's support it.

And now they have an office - a physical presence!

https://flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-sharing-at-the-internet-archive-europe/

https://www.internetarchive.eu/

Inky Impression 用に額縁を設計してプリントして収めた。安っぽいけどだいぶフォトフレーム感が出た #shapolab

Workslop: bad ‘study’, but an excellent word

wasting coworkers’ time with AI — as directed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnI-Yr6plXI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250923-workslop-bad-study-but-an-excellent-word - podcast

time 7 min 10 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/23/workslop-bad-study-but-an-excellent-word/ - text

So I just reported a very interesting bug in Outlook - took me a while to analyze and understand (part of) the root cause..

The bug allows to read the value of an MAPI property* and use it *directly* as a memory pointer. We know OOB (e.g. caused by integer overflow) bugs are not rare but they're all some sort of "offsets", not someone just read the value and directly use it as a pointer.. So basically you can set the DWORD 0xdddddddd in the email and Outlook would happily access memory at 0xdddddddd. Not sure what severity it could be as it's an OOB-read at first glance, but def. an interesting find for me.:)

Full details will be released after MSRC's review.

* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/outlook/mapi/mapi-property-overview

#VulnerabilityResearch #Outlook #EmailSecurity

System/38 project update. Edith is off the pallet and on her own wheels. WE REPEAT THE EDITH HAS LANDED.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ibm-system-38-computer-rescue-and-restoration

@robdaemon The AS/400 was a direct drop-in replacement for the S/38, and IBM didn’t want used 38s on the market to torpedo AS/400 sales, so they were *extremely* aggressive in trade-ins and take-backs to keep them off the market.

In our research we’ve found only 10 or so S/38s still in existence world-wide and several of them only exist as piles of parts. We only know of 6 intact, of those, only 2 power up, and NONE IPL all the way to an operating system. CPF as the historical predecessor to OS/400 is pretty much lost.

On IBMi the core OS task is still called SCPF, 48 years after the S/38. :-)

The crates.​io team was notified of two malicious crates (with similar names as legitimate crates) which were actively searching file contents for Etherum private keys, Solana private keys, and arbitrary byte arrays for exfiltration. The malicious crates have been removed.

See the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/crates.io-malicious-crates-fasterlog-and-asyncprintln/

I wrote an article about what I wish juniors in cybersecurity would ask for and contribute when asking for a mentor and career guidance, in light of the terrible tech jobs market.

https://tisiphone.net/2025/09/24/reasonable-expectations-for-cybersecurity-mentees/

#Cybersecurity #Infosec #MentoringMonday #Mentoring #CybersecurityCareers