Cisco Talos Blog

March 13, 2025 06:00

Abusing with style: Leveraging cascading style sheets for evasion and tracking

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are ever present in modern day web browsing, however its far from their own use. This blog will detail the ways adversaries use CSS in email campaigns for evasion and tracking.

March 6, 2025 06:00

Unmasking the new persistent attacks on Japan

Cisco Talos has discovered an active exploitation of CVE-2024-4577 by an attacker in order to gain access to the victim's machines and carry out post-exploitation activities.

February 27, 2025 06:00

Lotus Blossom espionage group targets multiple industries with different versions of Sagerunex and hacking tools

Lotus Blossom espionage group targets multiple industries with different versions of Sagerunex and hacking tools

February 20, 2025 08:00

Weathering the storm: In the midst of a Typhoon

Cisco Talos has been closely monitoring reports of widespread intrusion activity against several major U.S. telecommunications companies, by a threat actor dubbed Salt Typhoon. This blog highlights our observations on this campaign and identifies recommendations for detection and prevention.

February 6, 2025 06:00

Google Cloud Platform Data Destruction via Cloud Build

A technical overview of Cisco Talos' investigations into Google Cloud Platform Cloud Build, and the threat surface posed by the storage permission family.

January 28, 2025 06:00

New TorNet backdoor seen in widespread campaign

Cisco Talos discovered an ongoing malicious campaign operated by a financially motivated threat actor targeting users, predominantly in Poland and Germany.

January 24, 2025 08:37

Seasoning email threats with hidden text salting

Hidden text salting is a simple yet effective technique for bypassing email parsers, confusing spam filters, and evading detection engines that rely on keywords. Cisco Talos has observed an increase in the number of email threats leveraging hidden text salting.

November 14, 2024 06:00

New PXA Stealer targets government and education sectors for sensitive information

Cisco Talos discovered a new information stealing campaign operated by a Vietnamese-speaking threat actor targeting government and education entities in Europe and Asia.

October 31, 2024 09:37

Threat actors use copyright infringement phishing lure to deploy infostealers

Cisco Talos has observed a threat actor conducting a phishing campaign targeting Facebook business and advertising account users in Taiwan. This campaign delivers an information stealer onto the target's machine to avoid network security product detections.