Threat Source newsletter for July 2, 2020
Good afternoon, Talos readers. Our latest research you should catch up on is the Valak malware. This information-stealer sneaks its way onto victim machines by hijacking legitimate email threads. The threat actors send their phishing emails and attachments in email threads, hop
Threat Source newsletter for June 25, 2020
Good afternoon, Talos readers. We recently decided to replace our use of the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist" with "block list" and "allow list.” Even though these terms are commonly in use in the security industry, we will not go along with c
Cisco Talos replacing all mentions of 'blacklist,' 'whitelist'
There are many ways to respond to injustice, both large and small, but each response is important. While we acknowledge it is a small change, Cisco Talos is moving to replace our use of the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist" with "block list" and &quo
Threat Source newsletter for June 18, 2020
Good afternoon, Talos readers. Now that Cisco Live is over, you can access both of Talos’ talks on-demand here if you registered for the online event. The latest Beers with Talos episode covers how to push your career in cyber security forward when you feel like you’re stuck i
Threat Source newsletter for June 11, 2020
Good afternoon, Talos readers. We are back this week with new content, mainly around Microsoft Patch Tuesday. We have our complete breakdown of all the vulns here, as well as in-depth information on two remote code execution vulnerabilities one of our researchers discovered in E
Threat Source newsletter for June 4, 2020
Our social media content and promotion are on pause this week as there are more important issues being discussed and other voices that need to be heard. However, we still wanted to provide users with the latest IOCs and threats we’re seeing. Upcoming public engagements Event:
Threat Source newsletter for May 28, 2020
Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We need to start things off by wishing a Happy Birthday to Beers with Talos! The first episode was released on May 12, 2017. To celebrate, we have a new e
Threat Source newsletter for May 21, 2020
Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Beers with Talos chugs on during quarantine with the latest episode of “The In-Between.” Once again, the hosts talk about everything but security, answeri
What the continued escalation of tensions in the Middle East means for security
Cisco Talos works with many organizations around the world, monitoring and protecting against sophisticated threats every day. As such, we are watching the current state of events in the Middle East very closely for our customers and partners who may be impacted by the ongoing si