SANS Stormcast Monday, July 28th, 2025: Linux Namespaces; UI Automation Abuse; Autoswagger (#)

SANS Stormcast Monday, July 28th, 2025: Linux Namespaces; UI Automation Abuse; Autoswagger Linux Namespaces Linux namespaces can be used to control networking features on a process-by-process basis. This is useful when trying to present a different network environment to a process being analysed. https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Sinkholing%20Suspicious%20Scripts%20or%20Executables%20on%20Linux/32144 Coyote in the Wild: First-Ever Malware That Abuses UI Automation Akamai identified malware that takes advantage of Microsoft's UI Automation Framework to programatically interact with the user's system and steal credentials. https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/active-exploitation-coyote-malware-first-ui-automation-abuse-in-the-wild Testing REST APIs with Autoswagger The tool Autoswagger can be used to automate the testing of REST APIs following the OpenAPI/Swagger standard. https://github.com/intruder-io/autoswagger/ keywords: Linux; namespace; coyote; UI Automation; rest; autoswagger