Cisco Talos Blog

February 5, 2020 13:12

Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends in fall 2019

By David Liebenberg and Kendall McKay. While many Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) engagements have shown similar patterns over the past two quarters, we’re seeing a dangerous trend emerge this winter. Threat actors are increasingly combining the exfiltration of sensitive da

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

February 11, 2019 11:02

What you can learn from Cisco Talos’ new oil pumpjack workshop

There are a lot of ways in which researchers could utilize this system to research potential attack vectors on an oil pumpjack.