Threat Source Newsletter (April 22, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We went viral this week! Everyone seemed to love to joke about these vulnerabilities we discovered in a WiFi-connected air fryer. An attacker, if they had physical access to the device, could exploit these vulne
Threat Source Newsletter (April 15, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. If you missed our webinar last week, we've got you covered. We've uploaded an extended version to our YouTube page that includes the scripts used in the presentation. This video will show you how to reve
Threat Source Newsletter (April 8, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We've all heard about spam coming through your email or those robocalls we all hate. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, attackers are now turning to chat rooms and gaming servers to spread spam. Talos researc
Threat Source Newsletter (April 1, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We hope you’re enjoying Cisco Live this week and only reading this after you’ve caught up on your sessions for the day. No April Fool’s jokes here (thankfully) — we are just excited to tell you that application
Threat Source Newsletter (March 25, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. The Cisco Talos Incident Response team has several new, valuable insights into the threat landscape in the latest Quarterly Trends report. This post highlights the malware families our researchers are seeing mos
Threat Source newsletter (March 18, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. Start spreading the word now, the Snort scholarship is back for 2021! This year, we’re giving away two $10,000 awards to two college students who are studying cybersecurity or another IT-related field. Applicati
Threat Source newsletter (March 11, 2021) — Featuring new SolarWinds roundtable
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We have a special edition of the Threat Source newsletter to bring you this week, because we’re premiering a new video for you right now! Below, you’ll find a full roundtable we put together discussing the Sola
Threat Source newsletter (March 4, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Of course, we will start things off talking about the Microsoft Exchange Server zero-day vulnerabilities disclosed earlier this week. Microsoft said in a statement that a threat actor is exploiting these vulnerabilities in the wild to steal us
Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 25, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We all think of APTs as these wide-reaching, silent threat groups who are backed by a nation-state. But our recent research into Gamaredon shows that not all APTs are created equal. We’ve spotted this actor car