Threat Source newsletter (March 19, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We hope everyone is staying home (if possible) and staying safe. Unfortunately, the bad guys aren’t going anywhere,
Threat Source newsletter (March 12, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Obviously, COVID-19 is dominating headlines everywhere, and for good reason. We hope everyone out there is staying s
Vulnerability Spotlight: Information disclosure in Windows 10 Kernel
Marcin Towalski of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the Windows 10 kernel. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking the victim into opening a specially craft
Microsoft Patch Tuesday — March 2020: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage
By Jon Munshaw and Vitor Ventura. Update (March 12, 2020): Microsoft released an out-of-band patch for CVE-2020-0796, a code execution vulnerability SMB client and server for Windows. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute remote code. Snort rule
Vulnerability Spotlight: WAGO products contain remote code execution, other vulnerabilities
Patrick DeSantis, Carl Hurd, Kelly Leuschner and Lilith [-_-]; of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered several vulnerabilities in multiple products from the company WAGO. WAGO produces a line of automation software cal
Threat Source newsletter (March 5, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Sure, all anyone wants to talk about is coronavirus. But what about cyber security? We’ve still got cool stuff, like
Video: What defenders can learn from past ransomware attacks
The Cisco Talos Incident Response "Stories from the Field" video series returns with another entry from Matt Aubert. This time, Matt discusses ransomware infections he's seen in real-time, and shares what defenders can learn from others' mistakes and recovery.
Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 27, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We know we’ve kept you waiting for a while, but the new Snort Resources page is finally here. We’ve got new and impr
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Moxa AWK-3131A
Jared Rittle and Carl Hurd of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. The Moxa AWK-3131A networking device contains several different vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to carry out malicious activities in an industrial environment. The AWK