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October 15, 2021 11:07

Talos Takes Ep. #73 (NCSAM edition): Fight the phish from land, sea and air

The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. Most people may think of spam as being the classic email promising that you've won the lottery or some great prize,

October 14, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 14, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. It's still Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and what better way to celebrate by patching and then patching some more? This week was Microsoft Patch Tuesday, which only included two critical vulnerabilities, but still requires patching diligence.

October 14, 2021 13:17

Vulnerability Spotlight: Code execution vulnerabilities in Nitro Pro PDF

A Cisco Talos team member discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Nitro Pro PDF reader that could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the application. Nitro Pro PDF is part of Nitro Software’s Productivit

October 12, 2021 15:43

Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Excel could lead to code execution

Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the ConditionalFormatting functionality of Microsoft Office Excel 2019 that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim machi

October 12, 2021 13:33

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Oct. 2021 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

By Jon Munshaw, with contributions from Asheer Malhotra. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 78 vulnerabilities in the company’s various software, hardware and firmware offerings. This month’s release is particularly notable because there are only

October 12, 2021 10:48

Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in Anker Eufy Homebase could lead to code execution, buffer overflows

UUpdate (Nov. 29, 2021): Anker patched five other vulnerabilities in this product affecting the same version as originally listed in this blog. These have been added to the post. Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered two

October 8, 2021 08:45

Talos Takes Ep. #71 (NCSAM edition): Reflecting on ransomware in 2021

By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. We are from the first (or last) people to say this, but 2021 is the year of ransomware. It’s by far the

October 7, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 7, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. Every day, we see mountains and mountains of data. So how do we comb through all of it to find out what's important to customers and users? Well, there are many ways, but we wanted to give readers and researchers a look into at least one option

October 1, 2021 09:00

Talos Takes Ep. #70: Let's put a positive spin on this whole working from home thing for once

By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we're releasing a special series of Talos Takes