Cisco Talos Blog

July 12, 2016 19:43

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - July 2016

This post was authored by William Largent Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month’s release is has 11 bulletins addressing 49 vulnerabilities. 6 of these bulletins are ra

July 11, 2016 13:19

When Paying Out Doesn't Pay Off

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin and Warren Mercer Summary Talos recently observed a new ransomware variant targeting users. This ransomware shows that new threat actors are continuing to enter the ransomware market at a rapid pace due to the lucrative nature of

June 8, 2016 16:07

Vulnerability Spotlight: ESnet iPerf3 JSON parse_string UTF Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability was discovered by Dave McDaniel, Senior Research Engineer. Summary iPerf is a network testing application that is typically deployed in a client/server configuration and is used to measure the available network bandwidth between the systems by creating TCP a