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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 11 and Nov. 18. 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

With the proliferation of interconnected third-party applications, new strategies are needed to close the security gap.

Threat hunting is the process of looking for malicious activity and its artifacts in a computer system or network. Threat hunting is carried out intermittently in an environment regardless of whether or not threats have been discovered by automated security solutions. Some threat actors may stay dormant in an organization's infrastructure, extending their access while waiting for the right

The threat actors behind the Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme have launched attacks against over 1,300 companies across the world, netting the gang $100 million in illicit payments as of November 2022. "Hive ransomware has targeted a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure sectors, including government facilities, communications, critical manufacturing, information

Languages such as C and C++ rely too heavily on the programmer not making simple memory-related security errors.

The Snort 2023 calendar is finally here, and y’all, it’s a good one. Packed full of classic memes and punny Snorties, the calendar is sure to delight all year long.

The socially engineered campaign used a legitimate domain to send phishing emails to large swaths of university targets.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5729-1 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Hsin-Wei Hung discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the x86 JIT compiler. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive information.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5728-1 - Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential data structure reuse. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory address space accounting implementation in the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

LodaRAT samples were deployed alongside other malware families, including RedLine and Neshta. Cisco Talos identified several variants and altered versions of LodaRAT with updated functionality have been identified in the wild. Changes in these LodaRAT variants include new functionality allowing proliferation to attached removable storage, a new string encoding algorithm