Cisco Talos Blog

December 19, 2024 06:04

Exploring vulnerable Windows drivers

This post is the result of research into the real-world application of the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) technique along with Cisco Talos’ series of posts about  malicious Windows drivers.

October 10, 2024 06:00

Ghidra data type archive for Windows driver functions

Cisco Talos is releasing a GDT file on GitHub that contains various definitions for functions and data types.

June 18, 2024 08:00

Exploring malicious Windows drivers (Part 2): the I/O system, IRPs, stack locations, IOCTLs and more

As the second entry in our “Exploring malicious Windows drivers” series, we will continue where the first left off: Discussing the I/O system and IRPs.

January 18, 2024 08:00

Exploring malicious Windows drivers (Part 1): Introduction to the kernel and drivers

Malicious drivers are difficult to detect and successfully leveraging one can give an attacker full access to a system.

July 11, 2023 13:04

Undocumented driver-based browser hijacker RedDriver targets Chinese speakers and internet cafes

Cisco Talos has identified multiple versions of an undocumented malicious driver named “RedDriver,” a driver-based browser hijacker that uses the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) to intercept browser traffic.

July 11, 2023 13:04

Old certificate, new signature: Open-source tools forge signature timestamps on Windows drivers

Actors are leveraging multiple open-source tools that alter the signing date of kernel mode drivers to load malicious and unverified drivers signed with expired certificates.

April 11, 2023 15:28

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2023 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

April is the third month in a row in which at least one of the vulnerabilities Microsoft released in a Patch Tuesday had been exploited in the wild prior to disclosure.

November 17, 2022 08:01

Get a Loda This: LodaRAT meets new friends

* 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 seen in the wild. * Changes in these LodaRAT variants include new f

November 8, 2022 13:22

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 62 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 8 are classified as “Critical” and the rest are classified as “Important.”