Cisco Talos Blog

November 21, 2019 10:32

Vulnerability Spotlight: Tenda AC9 /goform/WanParameterSetting command injection vulnerability

Amit Raut of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a command injection vulnerability in the Tenda AC9 router. The Tenda AC9 is one of the most popular and affordable dual-band gigabit WiFi Router available online, especially on Amazon. A comm

November 21, 2019 10:28

Vulnerability Spotlight: Two remote code execution vulnerabilities in Xcftools

Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Xcftools contains two remote code execution vulnerabilities in its flattenIncrementally function. Xcftools is a set of tools for handling Gimp’s XCF files. The software provides tools to extract information from a

November 20, 2019 11:00

Cryptominers, ransomware among top malware in IR engagements in Q4

By David Liebenberg and Kendall McKay. This summer’s most popular malware families were common and used in unsophisticated attacks, with phishing being the top infection vector, according to Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) data. In addition to threat actors repeatedly deplo

November 18, 2019 13:30

How the new Talos IR Cyber Range can prepare your employees for a cyber attack

By Gerard Johansen, Charles Iszard and Luke DuCharme.  With the surge of ransomware attacks, information leaks and other cyber attacks in the headlines, most companies and organizations are aware that their employees need to be trained on how to stay safe online. But the real cha

November 14, 2019 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 14, 2019)

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. It was all about the bugs this week. Patch Tuesday was especially busy for us, including our usual recap of all the

November 13, 2019 10:03

Vulnerability Spotlight: Command injection bug in Exhibitor UI

Logan Sanderson of Cisco ASIG discovered this vulnerability. Exhibitor Web UI contains an exploitable command injection vulnerability in its Config editor. Exhibitor is a ZooKeeper supervisory process. Exhibitor's Web UI does not have any form of authentication, and prior to

November 13, 2019 09:58

Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service vulnerability in Intel IGC64 graphics driver

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Intel’s IGC64.dll graphics driver contains a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this bug by supplying a malformed pixel shader if the graphics driver is operating inside a VMwa

November 12, 2019 14:58

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Nov. 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

By Jon Munshaw. Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday discloses 75 vulnerabilities, 13 of which are considered "critical," with the rest being deemed "impo

November 12, 2019 14:07

Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Excel

Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft disclosed this bug as part of their monthly security update Tuesday. This vulnerability ex