Cisco Talos Intelligence Blog

January 24, 2023 07:01

State Sponsored Attacks in 2023 and Beyond

As 2023 begins I wanted to look forward on the future of state sponsored aggression and how we can see it change and evolve over the next year and beyond.

November 18, 2022 12:11

Threat Round up for November 11 to 18

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 11 and Nov. 18. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behaviora

September 22, 2022 07:09

Insider Threats: Your employees are being used against you

Over the past six months to a year, we have seen an increasing amount of incident response engagements involving malicious insiders and unwitting assets being compromised via social engineering.

August 29, 2022 14:08

Small-time cybercrime is about to explode — We aren’t ready

The cybersecurity industry tends to focus on extremely large-scale or sophisticated, state-sponsored attacks. Rightfully so, as it can be the most interesting, technically speaking. When most people think of cybercrime they think of large-scale breaches because that’s what domin

August 10, 2022 15:08

Cisco Talos shares insights related to recent cyber attack on Cisco

THIS POST IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN: 日本語 (Japanese) Update History DateDescription of UpdatesAug. 10th 2022 Adding clarifying details on activity involving active directory. Aug. 10th 2022 Update made to the Cisco Response and Recommendations section related to MFA. Executive

August 8, 2022 08:08

Small-time cybercrime is about to explode — We aren't ready

The cybersecurity industry tends to focus on extremely large-scale or sophisticated, state-sponsored attacks. Rightfully so, as it can be the most interesting, technically speaking. When most people think of cybercrime they think of large-scale breaches because that's what domin

July 13, 2022 19:07

Transparent Tribe begins targeting education sector in latest campaign

* Cisco Talos has been tracking a new malicious campaign operated by the Transparent Tribe APT group. * This campaign involves the targeting of educational institutions and students in the Indian subcontinent, a deviation from the adversary's typical focus on government entitie

June 3, 2022 20:06

Threat Advisory: Atlassian Confluence zero-day vulnerability under active exploitation

Cisco Talos is monitoring reports of an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server. Confluence is a Java-based corporate Wiki employed by numerous enterprises. At this time, it is confirmed that all supported versions of Confluence are affecte

June 1, 2022 10:06

Threat Advisory: Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft diagnostic tool MSDT could lead to code execution

A recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) made headlines over the past few days. CVE-2022-30190, also known under the name "Follina," exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from an application, such as Microso