Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in Alyac antivirus program could stop virus scanning, cause code execution
Jaewon Min of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Update (Aug. 3, 2022): Talos disclosed two new vulnerabilities in the Alyac antivirus software and added their details to this post. Cisco Talos recently discovered out-of-bounds read and buffer overflow vulnerabilitie
Vulnerability Spotlight: How a code re-use issue led to vulnerabilities across multiple products
By Francesco Benvenuto. Recently, I was performing some research on a wireless router and noticed the following piece of code: This unescape function will revert the URL encoded bytes to its original form. But something specifically caught my attention: There was no size check
Avos ransomware group expands with new attack arsenal
By Flavio Costa, * In a recent customer engagement, we observed a month-long AvosLocker campaign. * The attackers utilized several different tools, including Cobalt Strike, Sliver and multiple commercial network scanners. * The initial ingress point in this incident was a pa
Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in Anker Eufy Homebase could lead to code execution, authentication bypass
Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered three vulnerabilities in the Anker Eufy Homebase 2. The Eufy Homebase 2 is the video storage and networking gateway that works with Anker’s Eufy Smarthome ecosystem.
The BlackByte ransomware group is striking users all over the globe
News summary * Cisco Talos has been monitoring the BlackByte Ransomware Group for several months, infecting victims all over the world, from North America to Colombia, Netherlands, China, Mexico and Vietnam. * The FBI released a joint cybersecurity advisory in February 2022 wa
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in NVIDIA GPU driver
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered four vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA D3D10 driver for graphics cards that could allow an attacker to corrupt memory and write arbitrary memory on the card. NVIDIA graphics drivers are sof
Deep dive: Vulnerabilities in ZTE router could lead to complete attacker control of the device
Cisco Talos’ vulnerability research team disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in the ZTE MF971R wireless hotspot and router in October. Several months removed from that disclosure and ZTE’s patch, we decided to take an even closer look at two of these vulnerabilities — CVE-2021-217
Threat Roundup for November 26 to December 3
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 26 and Dec. 3. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral
Vulnerability Spotlight: PHP deserialize vulnerability in CloudLinux Imunity360 could lead to arbitrary code execution
Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos. Cisco Talos recently discovered a vulnerability in the Ai-Bolit functionality of CloudLinux Inc Imunify360 that could lead to arbitrary code execution. Imunify360 is a security platform for web-hosting servers that allows users to configure