Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Nvidia D3D10 Driver Pixel Shader Vulnerabilities
Discovered by Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos Overview Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing multiple vulnerabilities that exist within the Nvidia D3D10 driver. This driver is used throughout multiple GPU product lines available from Nvidia. This is a commonly used driver, and exploitat
Forgot About Default Accounts? No Worries, GoScanSSH Didn’t
This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Andrew Williams, and Alain Zidouemba. Executive Summary During a recent Incident Response (IR) engagement, Talos identified a new malware family that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed to the internet. This malwa
Gozi ISFB Remains Active in 2018, Leverages "Dark Cloud" Botnet For Distribution
This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin and Holger Unterbrink, with contributions from Adam Weller. Executive Summary Gozi ISFB is a well-known and widely distributed banking trojan, and has been in the threat landscape for the past several years. Banking trojans are
COINHOARDER: Tracking a Ukrainian Bitcoin Phishing Ring DNS Style
This post is authored by Jeremiah O'Connor and Dave Maynor with contributions from Artsiom Holub and Austin McBride. Executive Summary Cisco has been tracking a bitcoin theft campaign for over 6 months. The campaign was discovered internally and researched with the aid of a
Ransom Where? Malicious Cryptocurrency Miners Takeover, Generating Millions
his post was authored by Nick Biasini, Edmund Brumaghin, Warren Mercer and Josh Reynolds with contributions from Azim Khodijbaev and David Liebenberg. Executive Summary The threat landscape is constantly changing; over the last few years malware threat vectors, methods and pay
Vulnerability Spotlight: Walt Disney Per-Face Texture Mapping faceInfoSize Code Execution Vulnerability
This vulnerability was discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos. Executive Summary Walt Disney PTEX is an open source software application maintained by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It is designed for use in post-production rendering. It allows for the storage of thousands of
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Unpatched Vulnerabilities in Blender Identified
Update 1/25/18: Blender has released version 2.79a to address these issues Technology has evolved in incredible ways that has helped people to create and visualize media like never before. Today, people can use tools such as Blender to visualize, model, and animate 3D content,
Meltdown and Spectre
Cisco Talos is aware of three new vulnerabilities impacting Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and ARM processors used by almost all computers. We are investigating these issues and although we have not observed exploitation of these vulnerabilities in the wild, that does not mean that it has
Not So Crystal Clear - Zeus Variant Spoils Ukrainian Holiday
This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin with contributions from Ben Baker, Dave Maynor and Matthew Molyett. Introduction Talos has observed a cyber attack which was launched using the official website of Ukraine-based accounting software developer Crystal Finance Millennium