Cisco Talos Blog

April 3, 2017 11:01

Introducing ROKRAT

This blog was authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres with contributions from Matthew Molyett. Executive Summary A few weeks ago, Talos published research on a Korean MalDoc. As we previously discussed this actor is quick to cover their tracks and very quickly cleaned up

March 29, 2017 09:37

Vulnerability Spotlight: Exploiting Network Time Protocol Origin Timestamp Check Denial of Service Vulnerability

Vulnerabilities discovered by Matthew Van Gundy from Cisco ASIG Overview As a member of the Linux FoundationCore Infrastructure Initiative, Cisco is contributing to the CII effort by evaluating the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) for security defects. We previously identif

March 23, 2017 11:45

How Malformed RTF Defeats Security Engines

This post is authored by Paul Rascagneres with contributions from Alex McDonnell Executive Summary Talos has discovered a new spam campaign used to infect targets with the well known Loki Bot stealer. The infection vector is an RTF document abusing an old exploit (CVE-2016-7193

February 23, 2017 10:00

Korean MalDoc Drops Evil New Years Presents

This blog was authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Executive Summary Talos has investigated a targeted malware campaign against South Korean users. The campaign was active between November 2016 and January 2017, targeting a limited number of people. The infection ve

January 30, 2017 14:40

EyePyramid: An Archaeological Journey

This post authored by Mariano Graziano and Paul Rascagneres Summary The last few days a malware sample named EyePyramid has received considerable attention, especially in Italy. The Italian police have arrested two suspects and also published a preliminary report of the investi