Cisco Talos Blog

December 10, 2018 11:51

in(Secure) messaging apps — How side-channel attacks can compromise privacy in WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal

This blog post is authored by Vitor Ventura. Executive summary Messaging applications have been around since the inception of the internet. But recently, due to the increased awareness around mass surveillance in some countries, more users are installing end-to-end encrypted

November 19, 2018 09:30

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple remote vulnerabilities in TP-Link TL-R600VPN

Vulnerabilities discovered by Carl Hurd and Jared Rittle of Cisco Talos. Cisco Talos is disclosing multiple vulnerabilities in the TP-Link TL-R600VPN router. TP-Link produces a number of different types of small and home office (SOHO) routers. Talos discovered several bugs in th

October 11, 2018 09:06

GPlayed Trojan - .Net playing with Google Market

This blog post is authored byVitor Ventura. Introduction In a world where everything is always connected, and mobile devices are involved in individuals' day-to-day lives more and more often, malicious actors are seeing increased opportunities to attack these devices. Cisc

June 19, 2018 11:25

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities In Insteon Hub PubNub

Vulnerabilities discovered by Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos Talos is disclosing twelve new vulnerabilities in Insteon Hub, ranging from remote code execution, to denial of service. The majority of the vulnerabilities have their root cause in the unsafe usage of the strcpy() fun

May 16, 2018 13:17

TeleGrab - Grizzly Attacks on Secure Messaging

The malware is mainly targeting Russian-speaking victims, and is intentionally avoiding IP addresses related with anonymizer services.

May 8, 2018 16:31

Wipers - Destruction as a means to an end

In a digital era when everything and everyone is connected, malicious actors have the perfect space to perform their activities. During the past few years, organizations have suffered several kinds of attacks that arrived in many shapes and forms. But none have been more impactfu