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SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 18th, 2025: Binary Expression Decoding. Tea NPM Pollution; IBM AIX NIMSH Vulnerability

Episode 9704 Published 10 months ago

Decoding Binary Numeric Expressions
Didier updated his number to hex script to support simple arithmetic operations in the text.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Decoding%20Binary%20Numeric%20Expressions/32490
Tea Token NPM Pollution
The NPM repository was hit with around 150,000 submissions that did not contain any useful contributions, but instead attempted to fake contributions to earn a new tea coin.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-inspector-detects-over-150000-malicious-packages-linked-to-token-farming-campaign/
IBM AIX NIMSH Vulnerabilities
IBM patched several critical vulnerablities in the NIMSH daemon
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7251173