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October 28, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 28, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. Most people know about chicken and waffles. But what about squirrel and waffles? They may not be the most appetizing brunch, but they are teaming up for one heck of a spam campaign. We have new research out detailing this threat and examining whet

October 21, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 21, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. We're writing this on Wednesday for PTO reasons, so apologies if we miss any major news that happens after Wednesday afternoon. Above, you can watch our awesome live stream from Monday with Brad Garnett from Cisco Talos Incident Response. Brad

October 14, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 14, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. It's still Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and what better way to celebrate by patching and then patching some more? This week was Microsoft Patch Tuesday, which only included two critical vulnerabilities, but still requires patching diligence.

October 7, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 7, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. Every day, we see mountains and mountains of data. So how do we comb through all of it to find out what's important to customers and users? Well, there are many ways, but we wanted to give readers and researchers a look into at least one option

September 30, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 30, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. In the latest example of attackers trying to capitalize on current headlines, we've spotted a group using the recent fervor around the Pegasus spyware to spread malware. We've detailed a campaign in which the attackers have copied (nearly

September 23, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 23, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. The Russian APT Turla is one of the most notorious threat actors out there today. And they aren't stopping, recently adding a new backdoor to their arsenal that serves as a "last chance" to retain a foothold on victim machines, even a

September 16, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 16, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a rat! We've been tracking a series of trojans targeting the aviation industry, and trying to lure victims in by sending them spam related to flight itineraries and other transportation news. In our

September 9, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 9, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. The biggest security news this week is no doubt another Microsoft zero-day. On the heels of PrintNightmare and multiple Exchange Server vulnerabilities comes a code execution vulnerability in MSHTML, the rendering engine in Internet Explorer. We h

September 2, 2021 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 2, 2021)

Good afternoon, Talos readers. If you haven't seen already, our blog has a lot of cool and new stuff this week. We first dove into the world of proxyware on Tuesday (aka internet-sharing applications). Attackers are hiding in this newly popular software to steal users'