Threat Source newsletter (July 22, 2021)
Good afternoon, Talos readers. I'm compiling this Tuesday for vacation reasons, so apologies for any major stories I'm missing here. This week's Beers with Talos podcast hits the seas again. And although we've covered sea shanties in the past, this week we'r
Threat Source newsletter (July 15, 2021)
Good afternoon, Talos readers. The value of cryptocurrency is all over the place. Elon Musk's tweets can send Dogecoin rising and falling. And Monero, the most popular currency for cryptominers, has gone all over the place this year. So does that have any effect on the rate
Threat Source newsletter (July 8, 2021)
Good afternoon, Talos readers. Just like everyone else in the security world, our week's been dominated by the Kaseya supply chain attack. We went live on pretty much every social media platform we could think of yesterday to update everyone on the current situation and prov
Threat Source newsletter (July 1, 2021)
Good afternoon, Talos readers. There's been a lot of talk recently around how to address America's infrastructure cybersecurity. After attacks like Colonial Pipeline and JBS, everyone across the public and private sectors are wondering what they should be doing to avoid
Threat Source newsletter (June 24, 2021)
Good afternoon, Talos readers. Even though spam emails asking for gift cards may seem like the oldest trick in the book, they're still effective in 2021. The FBI estimates that business email compromise cost victims around $1.8 billion in 2020, and we've seen recent camp
Threat Source newsletter (June 17, 2021)
Good afternoon, Talos readers. Although the Colonial Pipeline attack is largely behind us now, its potential repercussions are not. This was just the latest in a string of attacks against American critical infrastructure over the past few years, and we don't expect them to s
Threat Source newsletter (June 10, 2021)
Good afternoon, Talos readers. We seriously can't escape from ransomware. It's in the headlines constantly and has now drawn the full attention of the federal government. But we at Talos recognize that is going to take far more than just words to address this global thre
Threat Source newsletter (June 3, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. If you didn't catch us live yesterday, we've uploaded the full version of our stream on Discord and Slack malware to our YouTube page. Chris Neal from Talos Outreach walked through his recent research in
Threat Source newsletter (May 27, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We're used to referring to attackers as either APTs or not APTs. And when something is an APT, it sounds a lot scarier and sexier. But it's our belief that that isn't going to cut it anymore. Theref