Previewing Talos at BlackHat 2023
Cisco Talos will be well-represented at BlackHat and DEF CON over the course of the next few weeks with a slew of presentations, demos and appearances to speak to the security community.
Every company has its own version of ChatGPT now
Meta most recently entered the AI race with Llama 2, an open-source version of their chatbot. IBM has also re-branded its watson tool (formerly known as capital “W” Watson who was really good at “Jeopardy”) to be a ChatGPT-like.
The federal government’s cybersecurity policies are falling into place just in time to be stalled again
Last week, the Biden administration released its formal roadmap for its national cybersecurity initiative meant to encourage greater investment in cybersecurity and strengthen the U.S.’s critical infrastructure security (and more).
Why are there so many malware-as-a-service offerings?
Ransomware-as-a-service is a relatively new version of these commodity groups, such as DarkSide, known for the cyber attack in 2021 that disrupted the Colonial oil pipeline and made gas more expensive for thousands of U.S. consumers.
QR codes are relevant again for everyone from diners to threat actors
QR codes have always served as a way for bad actors to spread malware or even your friendly neighborhood prankster to share Rick Astley’s most famous music video.
Microsoft discloses more than 130 vulnerabilities as part of July’s Patch Tuesday, four exploited in the wild
Four of the disclosed vulnerabilities — albeit “important” ones — have been detected being exploited in the wild: CVE-2023-32046, CVE-2023-32049, CVE-2023-35311 and CVE-2023-36874.
Gergana Karadzhova-Dangela wants to send the ladder back down to the next generation of incident responders
Karadzhova-Dangela's family put her on a plane to Massachusetts without a return ticket and it wasn't until the IT job gave her enough disposable income to afford plane tickets back and forth to Bulgaria that she could see her family.
DDoS attacks want to make sure you haven’t forgotten about them
The economic damage of DDoS attacks is tough to measure — who can really say how much money Blizzard missed out on by not having players in “Diablo IV” for a few hours spending money on microtransactions or choosing to buy the game?
New video provides a behind-the-scenes look at Talos ransomware hunters
Apple's emergency patch, AI-generated art and more security headlines from the past week.