ObliqueRAT: New RAT hits victims' endpoints via malicious documents
By Asheer Malhotra. * Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes malicious Microsoft Office documents (maldocs) to spread a remote access trojan (RAT) we’re calling “ObliqueRAT.” * These maldocs use malicious macros to deliver the second stage RAT payload. *
Vulnerability Spotlight: Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenCV
Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the OpenCV libraries. An attacker could potentially exploit these bugs to cause heap corruptions and potentially code execution. Intel Research o
Talos Vulnerability Discovery Year in Review — 2019
By Martin Zeiser. Cisco Talos' Systems Security Research Team investigates software, operating system, IoT and ICS vulnerabilities to make sure we find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do. We provide this information to the affected vendors so that they can create patche