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North Korean attackers use malicious blogs to deliver malware to high-profile South Korean targets

By Jung soo An and Asheer Malhotra, with contributions from Kendall McKay. Cisco Talos has observed a new malware campaign operated by the Kimsuky APT group since June 2021.Kimsuky, also known as Thallium and Black Banshee, is a North Korean state-sponsored advanced... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

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Threat Roundup for October 29 to November 5

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 29 and Nov. 5. 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 ]]

The features all Incident Response Plans need to have

By Paul Lee, Yuri Kramarz and Martin Lee. Adversaries are always growing their capabilities and changing their tactics, leading to a greater number of incidents and data breaches. This is supported by organizations such as ITRC who reports that the number of data breaches in 2021 is already greater... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities exploited once again for ransomware, this time with Babuk

By Chetan Raghuprasad and Vanja Svajcer, with contributions from Caitlin Huey. Cisco Talos recently discovered a malicious campaign deploying variants of the Babuk ransomware predominantly affecting users in the U.S. with smaller number of infections in U.K., Germany, Ukraine, Finland, Brazil,... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities exploited once again for ransomware, this time with Babuk

By Chetan Raghuprasad and Vanja Svajcer, with contributions from Caitlin Huey. Cisco Talos recently discovered a malicious campaign deploying variants of the Babuk ransomware predominantly affecting users in the U.S. with smaller number of infections in U.K., Germany, Ukraine, Finland, Brazil,... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Threat Roundup for October 22 to October 29

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 22 and Oct. 29. 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 ]]

SQUIRRELWAFFLE Leverages malspam to deliver Qakbot, Cobalt Strike

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 ]]

Malicious campaign uses a barrage of commodity RATs to target Afghanistan and India

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 ]]

Threat Roundup for October 15 to October 22

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 ]]

Malicious campaign uses a barrage of commodity RATs to target Afghanistan and India

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 ]]