SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 29th, 2025: Invisible Subject Character Phishing; Tomcat PUT Vuln; BIND9 Spoofing Vuln PoC (#)
Update: 2025-10-29
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SANS Stormcast Wednesday, October 29th, 2025: Invisible Subject Character Phishing; Tomcat PUT Vuln; BIND9 Spoofing Vuln PoC Phishing with Invisible Characters in the Subject Line Phishing emails use invisible UTF-8 encoded characters to break up keywords used to detect phishing (or spam). This is aided by mail clients not rendering some characters that should be rendered. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A%20phishing%20with%20invisible%20characters%20in%20the%20subject%20line/32428 Apache Tomcat PUT Directory Traversal Apache released an update to Tomcat fixing a directory traversal vulnerability in how the PUT method is used. Exploits could upload arbitrary files, leading to remote code execution. https://lists.apache.org/thread/n05kjcwyj1s45ovs8ll1qrrojhfb1tog BIND9 DNS Spoofing Vulnerability A PoC exploit is now available for the recently patched BIND9 spoofing vulnerability https://gist.github.com/N3mes1s/f76b4a606308937b0806a5256bc1f918 keywords: bind9; dns; apache; tomcat; put; phishing; subject; unicode
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