TALOS

By Jon Munshaw and Tiago Pereira.  Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing more than 80 vulnerabilities in the company’s various software, hardware and firmware offerings, including one that’s actively being exploited in the wild.  July's security update... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 1 and July 8. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the pros and cons of the way we publicize our threat research. I had a few conversations at Cisco Live with people — who are more generally IT-focused than... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

By Jon Munshaw.  Nick Biasini’s seen it all.   Going on a nearly 20-year security career, he’s been a part of some of Cisco Talos’ largest undertakings in the company’s history. From an attack on the global Olympic Games, to a wireless router malware that affected hundreds of... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

By Jon Munshaw.  Nick Biasini’s seen it all.   Going on a nearly 20-year security career, he’s been a part of some of Cisco Talos’ largest undertakings in the company’s history. From an attack on the global Olympic Games, to a wireless router malware that affected hundreds of... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  We took a week off for summer vacation but are back in the thick of security things now.  My first exposure to deepfake videos was when Jordan Peele worked with BuzzFeed News to produce this video of... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered four vulnerabilities in the Robustel R1510 industrial cellular router.  The R1510 is a portable router that shares 2G, 3G and 4G wireless internet access. It comes with... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

By Paul Eubanks. We have developed three techniques to identify ransomware operators' dark websites hosted on public IP addresses, allowing us to uncover previously unknown infrastructure for the DarkAngels, Snatch, Quantum and Nokoyawa ransomware groups.The methods we used to identify the public... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 17 and June 24. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

By Flavio Costa, Chris Neal and Guilherme Venere. In a recent customer engagement, we observed a month-long AvosLocker campaign. The attackers utilized several different tools, including Cobalt Strike, Sliver and multiple commercial network scanners. The initial ingress point in this incident was... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]