Hello and welcome to the Monday, March 9th,

2026 edition of the Sands and then at Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, recording today from Jacksonville, Florida.

And this episode is brought you by the sands.edu graduate certificate program in Purple Team Operations.

In Diaries this weekend, we only got one very quick one, and that's an update in YaraX.

This update adds a Deps command for dependencies, and it's meant sort of for debugging where you have a rule file and you run it through the command.

It illustrates in a quick craft dependencies, how different rules depend on each other.

So, yeah, for debugging, that's probably quite useful.

And Checkpoint is reporting that they're seeing an increase in attacks against IP cameras.

Now, Checkpoint being Israeli company, they're of course focused somewhat on the Israeli IP address space.

And IP cameras, traffic, modern cameras and such have been in the news in the recent conflict.

Well, on the other hand, it's also really nothing new.

I'm not sure how you detect an increase in attacks against IP cameras because they're

all the way at the top when it comes to attack systems on the internet period. Also,

they have been used in conflicts prior to today.

Then, you know, for example, in Ukraine, there were many stories about how IP cameras, security cameras and such were being used in this conflict.

And, well, back in, I think it was 2014 and such, we wrote like about Hickvision cameras being attacked and many of them, for example,

being located along the Panama Canal.

So not really sure how new this is, but on the other hand, news like this, of course,

may finally get people to realize that these cameras should really not be exposed to the internet and well maybe

many of them should better be trashed.

Now, I'm talking about things that are either difficult to upgrade or often, well, aren't being

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