Cisco Talos Blog

April 22, 2025 06:03

Year in Review: Attacks on identity and MFA

For the third topic for Talos' 2024 Year in Review, we tell the story of how identity has become the pivot point for adversarial campaigns.

April 15, 2025 05:50

Year in Review: The biggest trends in ransomware

This week, our Year in Review spotlight is on ransomware—where low-profile tactics led to high-impact consequences. Download our 2 page ransomware summary, or watch our 55 second video.

April 8, 2025 06:50

Year in Review: Key vulnerabilities, tools, and shifts in attacker email tactics

From Talos' 2024 Year in Review, here are some findings from the top targeted network device vulnerabilities. We also explore how threat actors are moving away from time sensitive lures in their emails. And finally we reveal the tools that adversaries most heavily utilized last year.

April 7, 2025 09:51

Year in Review: In conversation with the report's authors

Want to know the most notable findings in Talos' Year in Review directly from our report's authors? Watch our two part video series.

April 3, 2025 14:03

One mighty fine-looking report

Hazel highlights the key findings within Cisco Talos’ 2024 Year in Review (now available for download) and details our active tracking of an ongoing campaign targeting users in Ukraine with malicious LNK files.

March 31, 2025 07:00

Beers with Talos: Year in Review episode

In this podcast, Joe, Hazel, Bill and Dave break down Talos' Year in Review 2024 and discuss how and why cybercriminals have been leaning so heavily on attacks that are routed in stealth in simplicity.

February 13, 2025 14:05

Changing the narrative on pig butchering scams

Hazel discusses Interpol’s push to rename pig butchering scams as ‘romance baiting’. Plus, catch up on the latest vulnerability research from Talos, and why a recent discovery is a “rare industry win”.

January 9, 2025 14:15

Do we still have to keep doing it like this?

Hazel gets inspired by watching Wendy Nather’s recent keynote, and explores ways to challenge security assumptions.

September 6, 2024 08:59

The 2024 Threat Landscape State of Play

Talos' Nick Biasini discusses the biggest shifts and trends in the threat landscape so far. We also focus on one state sponsored actor that has been particularly active this year, and talk about why defenders need to be paying closer attention to infostealers.