Talos’ tips for staying safe while shopping online this holiday season
By Jon Munshaw. Attackers will resort to all tactics to trick users into downloading malware, handing over credit card data or completing compromising their machine. No topic is off-limits, and threat actors have resorted to using everything from PlayStation 5 sales, to COVID-1
Talos Takes Ep. #76: What is Kimsuky phishing around for?
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. Blog posts aren't just for sharing your darkest secrets from high school anymore. They're also used by attackers
Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends from Q3 2021
Ransomware again dominated the threat landscape, while BEC grew By David Liebenberg and Caitlin Huey. Once again, ransomware was the most dominant threat observed in Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) engagements this quarter. CTIR helped resolve several significant ransomwa
Talos Takes Ep. #73 (NCSAM edition): Fight the phish from land, sea and air
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. Most people may think of spam as being the classic email promising that you've won the lottery or some great prize,
Talos Takes Ep. #69: Our armadillo in shining armor
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. We also preach the importance of multi-factor authentication. But what happens when the bad guys start going after those
Talos Takes Ep. #68: The various pivots and pitfalls in a malware investigation
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. On this week's episode, Vitor Ventura from our research team walks through his recent work on connecting several mal
Talos Takes Ep. #66: Dude, where's my bandwidth?
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. “Proxyware” sounds like a complicated topic that you’re too afraid to ask about. But really, it’s just software that all
Talos Takes Ep: #65: How several RAT campaigns in Latin America are connected
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. As more people around the world start to get vaccinated against COVID-19, travel is becoming easier, especially during t
Talos Takes Ep. #64: Back 2 Skool edition
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. There's no shortage of complications leading into this new school year. Students, parents, teachers and admins alike