Cisco Talos Blog

July 25, 2024 14:00

The massive computer outage over the weekend was not a cyber attack, and I’m not sure why we have to keep saying that

Seeing a “blue screen of death,” often with code that looks indecipherable, has been ingrained into our heads that it’s a “hack."

July 24, 2024 06:00

A (somewhat) complete timeline of Talos’ history

Relive some of the major cybersecurity incidents and events that have shaped Talos over the past 10 years.

July 18, 2024 14:00

It's best to just assume you’ve been involved in a data breach somehow

Telecommunications provider AT&T disclosed earlier this month that adversaries stole a cache of data that contained the phone numbers and call records of “nearly all” of its customers.

July 11, 2024 14:00

Checking in on the state of cybersecurity and the Olympics

Even if a threat actor isn’t successful in some widespread breach that makes international headlines, even smaller-scale threats and actors are just hoping to cause chaos.

June 27, 2024 14:00

We’re not talking about cryptocurrency as much as we used to, but there are still plenty of scammers out there

A report in March found that 72% of cryptocurrency projects had died since 2020, with crypto trading platform FTX’s downfall taking out many of them in one fell swoop.

June 20, 2024 14:00

Tabletop exercises are headed to the next frontier: Space

More on the recent Snowflake breach, MFA bypass techniques and more.

June 13, 2024 14:00

How we can separate botnets from the malware operations that rely on them

A botnet is a network of computers or other internet-connected devices that are infected by malware and controlled by a single threat actor or group.

June 11, 2024 13:46

Only one critical issue disclosed as part of Microsoft Patch Tuesday

The lone critical security issue is a remote code execution vulnerability due to a use-after-free issue in the HTTP handling function of Microsoft Message Queuing.

June 6, 2024 14:00

The sliding doors of misinformation that come with AI-generated search results

AI’s integration into search engines could change the way many of us interact with the internet.