Current Handlers
Volunteer incident handlers donate their valuable time to analyze detects and anomalies, and post a daily
diary of their analysis and thoughts on the Storm Center website. Below you will find Handler details
including personal pages, additional scripts or papers, or whatever the respective handler is interested in
offering. All content is owned by the respective handler.
Interested in becoming a handler? A roadmap is available to learn how.
John Bambenek
Guy Bruneau
Jim Clausing
Scott Fendley
Jan Kopriva
Jesse La Grew
Renato Marinho
Russ McRee
Xavier Mertens
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Didier Stevens
Yee Ching Tok
Johannes Ullrich
Rob VandenBrink
Tom Webb
Bojan Zdrnja
John Bambenek
John Bambenek is President of Bambenek Labs, a threat intelligence and digital investigations firm. He has spent 20 years in the industry helping research emerging threats and leading large-scale intelligence sharing communities to engage in targeted disruption of criminal activities online. He has developed a variety of techniques to conduct digital surveillance that is used to monitor domain generation algorithms and malware configurations which are used by thousands of organizations world-wide. In addition, he tracks financial transactions of various neonazi and supremacist individuals and organizations. He has spoken at conferences around the world, has published two books in addition to several book chapters and articles, and he once appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Twitter: | @bambenek |
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Recent Diaries:
- Prophetic Post by Intern on CVE-2023-1389 Foreshadows Mirai Botnet Expansion Today
- Writing Yara Rules for Fun and Profit: Notes from the FireEye Breach Countermeasures
- Hunting for SigRed Exploitation
- VMWare Security Advisory on DoS Vulnerability in ESXi
- MSFT July 2019 Patch Tuesday
Guy Bruneau
Guy has a B.A. (IT) from University of Quebec and holds the prestigious GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification as well as the GIAC GSEC(G), GCIA(G), GCIH(G), GCUX(G), GCFA, GPEN certifications.
Twitter: | @guybruneau |
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Recent Diaries:
- Linux Trojan - Xorddos with Filename eyshcjdmzg
- A Use Case for Adding Threat Hunting to Your Security Operations Team. Detecting Adversaries Abusing Legitimate Tools in A Customer Environment. [Guest Diary]
- Gamified Learning: Using Capture the Flag Challenges to Supplement Cybersecurity Training [Guest Diary]
- What happens when you accidentally leak your AWS API keys? [Guest Diary]
- Capturing DShield Packets with a LAN Tap [Guest Diary]
Jim Clausing
Twitter: | @jclausing |
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Mastodon: | @clausing@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- New tool: linux-pkgs.sh
- Tool updates: le-hex-to-ip.py and sigs.py
- Wireshark updates
- Wireshark releases 2 updates in one day. Mac users especially will want the latest.
- New tool: le-hex-to-ip.py
Upcoming Courses:
SANS Security West 2024, San Diego
May 09, 2024 - May 14, 2024
LINUX Incident Response and Threat Hunting
SANS Summer Dunes 2024, Riyadh
June 01, 2024 - June 06, 2024
Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques
SANS Rocky Mountain Summer 2024, Denver
June 17, 2024 - June 22, 2024
LINUX Incident Response and Threat Hunting
Scott Fendley
Twitter: | @itsecuritygeek |
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Recent Diaries:
- July 2023 Microsoft Patch Update
- Warranty Repairs and Non-Removable Storage Risks
- Apple May 2021 Security Updates
- Critical Vuln in vCenter vmdir (CVE-2020-3952)
- Oracle Critical Patch Update Release
Jan Kopriva
Twitter: | @jk0pr |
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Mastodon: | @jkopriva@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- It appears that the number of industrial devices accessible from the internet has risen by 30 thousand over the past three years
- The xz-utils backdoor in security advisories by national CSIRTs
- Increase in the number of phishing messages pointing to IPFS and to R2 buckets
- Phishing pages hosted on archive.org
- Computer viruses are celebrating their 40th birthday (well, 54th, really)
Jesse La Grew
Jesse La Grew has been an IT professional within higher education for over 20 years. He holds a variety of GIAC certifications including the GDSA, GCCC, GCFA, GCFE, GCIA, GPYC, GSOC, GCIH, GSEC, GISF, GCTI, GCPM and GSTRT and is also a CISSP. He recently received his Bachelor's Degree at SANS Technology Institute and is progressing through his Master's program at the same institution. Jesse's background in IT started in a desktop support role. This transitioned into a cyber security focus when becoming involved in building and supporting environments meeting PCI and FISMA compliance standards. He currently works as Chief Information Security Officer at Madison College.
Twitter: | @stealthcrane |
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Mastodon: | @stealthcrane@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- Does it matter if iptables isn't running on my honeypot?
- [Guest Diary] AWS Deployment Risks - Configuration and Credential File Targeting
- [Guest Diary] Dissecting DarkGate: Modular Malware Delivery and Persistence as a Service.
- [Guest Diary] Friend, foe or something in between? The grey area of 'security research'
- [Guest Diary] Learning by doing: Iterative adventures in troubleshooting
Renato Marinho
Renato Marinho is Chief Research Officer at Morphus Labs. His journey in the area began in 2001, when he created Nettion, one of the first firewalls to use the contemporary UTM (Unified Threat Management) concept. Experienced in cyber security, Marinho was internationally recognized in 2016 by his research that unveiled Mamba, the first full disk encryption ransomware. At Morphus Labs, he oversees research, innovation and development of new products. Master and PhD candidate in Applied Informatics, he is also professor at University of Fortaleza teaching Computer Forensics in the post-graduate course. He is also a speaker having presented at Ignite Cybersecurity Conference, BSides Delaware, BSides Vienna, WSKS Portugal and Brazilian CSIRTs Forum.
Twitter: | @renato_marinho |
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Mastodon: | @renatomarinho@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- Microsoft February 2024 Patch Tuesday
- Microsoft September 2023 Patch Tuesday
- Microsoft August 2023 Patch Tuesday
- Microsoft May 2023 Patch Tuesday
- Guildma is now abusing colorcpl.exe LOLBIN
Russ McRee
Twitter: | @holisticinfosec |
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Recent Diaries:
- Sandfly Security
- Exploratory Data Analysis with CISSM Cyber Attacks Database - Part 2
- Exploratory Data Analysis with CISSM Cyber Attacks Database - Part 1
- Prowler v3: AWS & Azure security assessments
- Chainsaw: Hunt, search, and extract event log records
Xavier Mertens
Xavier Mertens is a freelance security consultant based in Belgium. Xavier's own company (https://xameco.be) offers services like incident handling, forensic, SOC activities, and pentesting. He holds GCIA, GFCE, GCFA, GXPN, GREM, GDAT, GNFA, GCTI, GPYC SANS certifications but also CISSP, and CISA. Xavier is a SANS Certified Instructor (FOR610 - Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering). His blog about security is https://blog.rootshell.be and he is co-organizer of the BruCON security conference (http://www.brucon.org).
Twitter: | @xme |
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Mastodon: | @xme@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- Malicious PDF File Used As Delivery Mechanism
- Building a Live SIFT USB with Persistence
- Quick Forensics Analysis of Apache logs
- From JavaScript to AsyncRAT
- Using ChatGPT to Deobfuscate Malicious Scripts
Upcoming Courses:
SANS Amsterdam May 2024, Amsterdam
May 20, 2024 - May 25, 2024
Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques
SANS Munich June 2024, Munich
June 03, 2024 - June 07, 2024
Reverse-Engineering Malware: Advanced Code Analysis
SANSFIRE 2024, Washington
July 15, 2024 - July 20, 2024
Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Mr. Santander Peláez currently serves as the CTO of Transportadora de Gas Internacional in Bogotá, Colombia. His areas of interest are Intrusion Detection, Computer Forensics, Incident Response, SCADA Security, cyber defense, threat intelligence and threat hunting.
Twitter: | @manuelsantander |
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Mastodon: | @manuelsantander@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- Noticing command and control channels by reviewing DNS protocols
- Controlling network access to ICS systems
- Management of DMARC control for email impersonation of domains in the .co TLD - part 2
- Management of DMARC control for email impersonation of domains in the .co TLD - part 1
- Security headers you should add into your application to increase cyber risk protection
Didier Stevens
Didier Stevens (Microsoft MVP Consumer Security) holds many certifications from SANS, Microsoft, Cisco, ... He is a Senior Analyst (NVISO https://www.nviso.be). Didier started his own company in 2012 to provide IT security training services (http://DidierStevensLabs.com). You can find his open source security tools on his IT security related blog at https://blog.DidierStevens.com.
Twitter: | @DidierStevens |
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Recent Diaries:
- Checking CSV Files
- Wireshark 4.2.4 Released
- 1768.py's Experimental Mode
- Obfuscated Hexadecimal Payload
- Update: MGLNDD_* Scans
Yee Ching Tok
Dr. Tok is currently a Senior Consultant at JT Consultancy & Management Pte. Ltd. and a Research Fellow at ASSET (Automated Systems SEcuriTy) Research Group in Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) under the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) Pillar. He was a recipient of the SG Digital (Postgraduate) Scholarship program from Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), and won the Cybersecurity Awards in 2019 under the Professional category for his contributions to the Singapore information security industry. Yee Ching is a SANS Lethal Forensicator and also serves as a Co-Opted Committee Member in the Association of Information Security Professionals (AiSP). For more information, please visit https://poppopretn.com/aboutme/.
Twitter: | @poppopretn |
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Mastodon: | @poppopretn@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- Rolling Back Packages on Ubuntu/Debian
- Evolution of Artificial Intelligence Systems and Ensuring Trustworthiness
- 5Ghoul Revisited: Three Months Later
- 5Ghoul: Impacts, Implications and Next Steps
- VMware Releases Security Patches for Fusion, Workstation and Aria Operations for Logs
Johannes Ullrich
Dr. Johannes Ullrich is the Dean of Research and a faculty member of the SANS Technology Institute. In November of 2000, Johannes started the DShield.org project, which he later integrated into the Internet Storm Center. His work with the Internet Storm Center has been widely recognized. In 2004, Network World named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the networking industry. Secure Computing Magazine named him in 2005 one of the Top 5 influential IT security thinkers. His research interests include IPv6, Network Traffic Analysis and Secure Software Development. Johannes is regularly invited to speak at conferences and has been interviewed by major publications, radio as well as TV stations. He is a member of the SANS Technology Institute's Faculty and Administration as well as Curriculum and Long Range Planning Committee. As chief research officer for the SANS Institute, Johannes is currently responsible for the GIAC Gold program. Prior to working for SANS, Johannes worked as a lead support engineer for a Web development company and as a research physicist. Johannes holds a PhD in Physics from SUNY Albany and is located in Jacksonville, Florida. More Details: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesullrich
Twitter: | @johullrich |
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Mastodon: | @jullrich@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- Scans Probing for LB-Link and Vinga WR-AC1200 routers CVE-2023-24796
- Another Day, Another NAS: Attacks against Zyxel NAS326 devices CVE-2023-4473, CVE-2023-4474
- D-Link NAS Device Backdoor Abused
- Struts "devmode": Still a problem ten years later?
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect exploit public and widely exploited CVE-2024-3400
Upcoming Courses:
SANS Security West 2024, San Diego
May 09, 2024 - May 14, 2024
Application Security: Securing Web Apps, APIs, and Microservices
SANSFIRE 2024 - Live Online, Online | US Eastern
July 15, 2024 - July 20, 2024
Application Security: Securing Web Apps, APIs, and Microservices
SANS Network Security 2024, Las Vegas
September 04, 2024 - September 09, 2024
Application Security: Securing Web Apps, APIs, and Microservices
Rob VandenBrink
Twitter: | @rvandenbrink |
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Recent Diaries:
- API Rug Pull - The NIST NVD Database and API (Part 4 of 3)
- The CVE's They are A-Changing!
- A Vuln is a Vuln, unless the CVE for it is after Feb 12, 2024
- Netstat, but Better and in PowerShell
- What is sitemap.xml, and Why a Pentester Should Care
Tom Webb
Twitter: | @twsecblog |
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Mastodon: | @tom_webb@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- Pi-Hole Pi4 Docker Deployment
- Are Local LLMs Useful in Incident Response?
- Zeek and Defender Endpoint
- IR Case/Alert Management
- Live Linux IR with UAC
Bojan Zdrnja
Twitter: | @bojanz |
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Mastodon: | @bojanz@infosec.exchange |
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Recent Diaries:
- The amazingly scary xz sshd backdoor
- Scanning and abusing the QUIC protocol
- Survival time for web sites
- Some things never change ? such as SQL Authentication ?encryption?
- Importance of signing in Windows environments
Upcoming Courses:
SANS Amsterdam May 2024, Amsterdam
May 27, 2024 - June 01, 2024
Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
SANSFIRE 2024, Washington
July 15, 2024 - July 20, 2024
Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
SANS Cyber Defence Korea 2024, Online | Korean Standard Time
August 26, 2024 - August 31, 2024
Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking