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

SANS Stormcast Tuesday, November 18th, 2025: Binary Expression Decoding. Tea NPM Pollution; IBM AIX NIMSH Vulnerability 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 keywords: nimsh; ibm; aix; tea; npm; binary; numeric; decoding