Hello and welcome to the Monday, February 3, 2025 edition of the Sands and at StormSenter's

Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich and I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

If you have ever built a homelab, a cyber range, or maybe a little malware analysis system, aside from setting up the basic

systems around it, installing operating systems and the like, more of the challenges sometimes

is to adapt the particular lab to a specific task, like setting up domains, IP address,

and like, to kind of simulate a little internet, for example,

to act as command control servers for any malware that you're detonating inside the lab.

Well, Richard set up a number of PowerShell scripts to accomplish some of that.

He will write a few diaries about this. The first that he just published,

deals with DNS settings, how to configure host names and the like in this lab. It's a

PowerShell script. So for everybody here who likes to set this up in Windows, perfectly suited also to set up active directory and the like

to match whatever environment you would like to emulate.

Real neat little tool, so take a look at it

and provide any feedback to Richard.

And there's still quite a bit of talk about security issues around Deep Seek. I mentioned last week

how some of their backend databases leaked. Of course, one of the problems they're struggling with

is dealing with the increased search and traffic that they are receiving. They allege that

there may also be some denial of service attack involved.

Now, as a result, they apparently have sort of reworked their infrastructure a little bit

that led to some issues at least over the weekend, I noticed,

where they had a bad certificate.

The reason the certificate was marked as bad was it was actually issued by Huawei Cloud.

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