Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 14, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. Microsoft released its monthly security update this week, disclosing 83 vulnerabilities across its suite of products to kickoff 2021. Our blog post has the most important vulnerabilities you need to know about,
Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 7, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers and welcome to the first Threat Source newsletter of 2021. We hit the ground running already this year with a new Beers with Talos episode. It was recorded back in 2020, but the lessons regarding ransomware attac
Threat Source newsletter (Dec. 17, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. This will be our last Threat Source newsletter of the year. We’ll be on a few-week break for the holidays until Jan. 7. Of course, all anyone wants to talk about this week is the SolarWinds supply chain attack.
Threat Source newsletter (Dec. 10, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. Cyber security firm FireEye recently disclosed an incident that was reported to have resulted in the inadvertent disclosure of various internally developed offensive security tools (OSTs) that were used across F
Threat Source newsletter (Dec. 3, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. While ransomware has made all the headlines this year, that doesn’t mean cryptocurrency miners are going anywhere. We recently discovered a new actor we’re calling “Xanthe” that’s mining Monero on targets’ machi
Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 19, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. In case you hadn’t already realized, Snort somehow became a meme this week, so that was fun. As 2020 (finally...or already...I can’t decide which) comes to an end, we’re going to start doing a look back at the
Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 12, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We’re back after a few-week hiatus! And to celebrate, we just dropped some new research on the CRAT trojan that’s bringing some ransomware friends along with it. This blog post has all the details of this threat
Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 15, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. In our latest entry into our election security series, we’re turning our attention to the professionals who are responsible for securing our elections. After months of research, we’ve compiled a series of rec
Threat Source newsletter for Oct. 8, 2020
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We’ve been writing and talking about election security a ton lately. And as the U.S. presidential election draws closer, we decided it was time to summarize some things. So, we released this blog post with our f