Increasing trust, commitment, and predictability during a remote incident response
In this blog post, Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) presents some of the key benefits of remote IR support and offers a list of recommendations for working on a remote incident.
Protecting major events: an incident response blueprint
Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) is sharing a white paper on the steps organizations should follow to secure any major event. These ten focus areas should help guide any organizing committee or participating businesses in preparation for securing such events..
The Company You Keep – Preparing for supply chain attacks with Talos IR
Organizations must proactively limit supply chain risks through careful selection of the company they keep while preparing to respond to an incident that will invariably originate from the supply chain.
Researcher Spotlight: Globetrotting with Yuri Kramarz
“You have completely different angles in preparing different customers for defense during major global events depending on their role, technology and function,” Kramarz said.
What Talos Incident Response learned from a recent Qakbot attack hijacking old email threads
By Nate Pors and Terryn Valikodath. Executive summary * In a recent malspam campaign delivering the Qakbot banking trojan, Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) observed the adversary using aggregated, old email threads from multiple organizations that we assess were likely ha
Quarterly Report: Incident Response Trends in Q2 2022
For the first time in more than a year, ransomware was not the top threat Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) responded to this quarter, as commodity malware surpassed ransomware by a narrow margin. This is likely due to several factors, including the closure of several ransomwa
Ransomware: How executives should prepare given the current threat landscape
By Nate Pors. Top executives are increasingly dreading the phone call from their fellow employees notifying them that their company has been hit by a cyber attack. Nearly every week in 2021 and early 2022, a prominent organization has been in the media spotlight as their public
Talos Incident Response added to German BSI Advanced Persistent Threat response list
Cisco Talos Incident Response is now listed as an approved vendor on the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) response service providers list [https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Cyber-Sicherheit/Themen/Dienst
Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends in Q1 2022
Ransomware continues as the top threat, while a novel increase in APT activity emerges Ransomware was still the top threat Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) saw in active engagements this quarter, continuing a trend that started in 2020. As mentioned in the 2021 year-in-revie