Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for April of 2025 which includes 126 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 11 that Microsoft has marked as “critical”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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