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Vulnerability Spotlight: VMware Workstation 15 denial-of-service vulnerability
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in VMware Workstation 15. VMware allows users to set up...
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Vulnerability Spotlight: Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code...
A member of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered two vulnerabilities in the popular Zoom video chatting application that could allow a...
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Threat Source newsletter for June 4, 2020
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Our social media content and promotion are on pause this week as there are more important issues being discussed and other voices that need to be heard. However, we...
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Threat Roundup for May 29 to June 5
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 29 and June 5. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this...
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Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Siemens LOGO! PLC
Alexander Perez-Palma of Cisco Talos and Emanuel Almeida of Cisco Systems discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco researchers recently discovered several vulnerabilities in the...
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2020 — Snort rules and prominent...
By Jon Munshaw. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing more than 120 vulnerabilities across its array of products. While none of the vulnerabilities disclosed have been...
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Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution vulnerability in Firefox’s...
Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. The Mozilla Firefox web browser contains a vulnerability in its SharedWorkerService function that could allow an...
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Vulnerability Spotlight: Two code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel
Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered two code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft...
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Threat Source newsletter for June 11, 2020
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We are back this week with new content, mainly around Microsoft Patch Tuesday. We have our complete breakdown of all the vulns here,...
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Tor2Mine is up to their old tricks — and adds a few new ones
By Kendall McKay and Joe Marshall THREAT SUMMARY Cisco Talos has identified a resurgence of activity by Tor2Mine, a cryptocurrency mining group that was likely last active in 2018. Tor2Mine is...
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Beers with Talos Ep. #83: The In-between, Vol. 4
Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast episode No. 83 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded...
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Threat Roundup for June 5 to June 12
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 5 and June 12. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead,...
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Quarterly report: Incident Response trends in Summer 2020
By David Liebenberg and Caitlin Huey. For the fourth quarter in a row, Ryuk dominated the threat landscape in incident response. As we mentioned in last quarter’s report, Ryuk has shifted from relying...
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Updates to Snort setup guides
Our documentation on Snort 3 running on CentOS and the Snort Rules Writing guide to Snort 3. Thanks to community member Yaser for providing the updates. The Snort 3 guide now has expanded information...
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Threat Roundup for May 29 to June 5
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 29 and June 5. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this...
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Beers with Talos Ep. #84: Mid-career advancement in cyber security
Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast episode No. 84 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded...
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Threat Source newsletter for June 18, 2020
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. Now that Cisco Live is over, you can access both of Talos’ talks on-demand here if you registered for the online event. The latest...
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IndigoDrop spreads via military-themed lures to deliver Cobalt Strike
By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes military-themed malicious Microsoft Office documents (maldocs) to spread Cobalt Strike beacons containing full-fledged RAT...
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Cisco Talos replacing all mentions of 'blacklist,' 'whitelist'
There are many ways to respond to injustice, both large and small, but each response is important. While we acknowledge it is a small change, Cisco Talos is moving to replace our use of the terms...
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Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service vulnerability in NVIDIA driver
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Executive summaryThe NVWGF2UMX_CFG.DLL driver contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that an attacker could use to...
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