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By Edmund Brumaghin, Mariano Graziano and Nick Mavis. Executive summary Recently, a new threat, referred to as "SQUIRRELWAFFLE" is being spread more widely via spam campaigns, infecting systems with a new malware loader. This is a malware family that's been spread with increasing regularity and... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

By Edmund Brumaghin, Mariano Graziano and Nick Mavis. Executive summary Recently, a new threat, referred to as "SQUIRRELWAFFLE" is being spread more widely via spam campaigns, infecting systems with a new malware loader. This is a malware family that's been spread with increasing regularity and... [[ 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 Oct. 15 and Oct. 22. 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 ]]

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers.   We're writing this on Wednesday for PTO reasons, so apologies if we miss any major news that happens after Wednesday afternoon.  Above, you can watch our awesome live stream from Monday with Brad Garnett from... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Cisco Talos recently discovered a threat actor using political and government-themed malicious domains to target entities in India and Afghanistan.These attacks use dcRAT and QuasarRAT for Windows delivered via malicious documents exploiting CVE-2017-11882 — a memory corruption vulnerability in... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Cisco Talos recently discovered a threat actor using political and government-themed malicious domains to target entities in India and Afghanistan.These attacks use dcRAT and QuasarRAT for Windows delivered via malicious documents exploiting CVE-2017-11882 — a memory corruption vulnerability in... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast episode No. 110 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify  StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. We mainly spend this episode doing some catching up... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the ZTE MF971R LTE portable router.  The MF971R is a portable router with Wi-Fi support and works as an LTE/GSM modem. An attacker could... [[ 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 Oct. 8 and Oct. 15. 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. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. Most people may think of spam as being the classic email promising that you've won the lottery or some great prize,... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]