Cisco Talos Blog

September 7, 2023 08:00

Cybercriminals target graphic designers with GPU miners

Cybercriminals are abusing Advanced Installer, a legitimate Windows tool used for creating software packages, to drop cryptocurrency-mining malware including PhoenixMiner and lolMiner on infected machines.

August 31, 2023 08:00

SapphireStealer: Open-source information stealer enables credential and data theft

SapphireStealer appears to be delivered as part of a multi-stage infection process, with threat actors leveraging open-source malware downloaders like FUD-Loader to deliver SapphireStealer to potential victims.

August 24, 2023 08:04

Lazarus Group's infrastructure reuse leads to discovery of new malware

Lazarus Group appears to be changing its tactics, increasingly relying on open-source tools and frameworks in the initial access phase of their attacks, as opposed to strictly employing them in the post-compromise phase.

August 24, 2023 08:02

Lazarus Group exploits ManageEngine vulnerability to deploy QuiteRAT

This is the third documented campaign attributed to this actor in less than a year, with the actor reusing the same infrastructure throughout these operations.

August 8, 2023 15:36

What Cisco Talos knows about the Rhysida ransomware

The group appears to commonly deploy double extortion — of the victims that have been listed on the leak site, several of them have had some portion of their exfiltrated data exposed.

August 7, 2023 08:00

New threat actor targets Bulgaria, China, Vietnam and other countries with customized Yashma ransomware

Cisco Talos discovered an unknown threat actor, seemingly of Vietnamese origin, conducting a ransomware operation that began at least as early as June 4, 2023 with customized Yashma ransomware.

July 13, 2023 06:45

Malicious campaigns target government, military and civilian entities in Ukraine, Poland

Cisco Talos has discovered a threat actor conducting several campaigns against government entities, military organizations and civilian users in Ukraine and Poland. We judge that these operations are very likely aimed at stealing information and gaining persistent remote access.

June 16, 2023 14:17

Active exploitation of the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability — CVE-2023-34362 — by Clop ransomware group

The Clop ransomware group has claimed responsibility for exploiting the vulnerability to deploy a previously unseen web shell, LemurLoot.

June 1, 2023 08:00

New Horabot campaign targets the Americas

Cisco Talos has observed a threat actor deploying a previously unidentified botnet program Talos is calling “Horabot,” which delivers a known banking trojan and spam tool onto victim machines in a campaign that has been ongoing since at least November 2020.