New banking trojan “CarnavalHeist” targets Brazil with overlay attacks
Since February 2024, Cisco Talos has been observing an active campaign targeting Brazilian users with a new banking trojan called “CarnavalHeist.” Many of the observed tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) are common among other banking trojans coming out of Brazil.
Attackers are impersonating a road toll payment processor across the U.S. in phishing attacks
Drivers from New York to Georgia and Pennsylvania have received these types of texts with equally convincing phishing text messages and lure pages.
LilacSquid: The stealthy trilogy of PurpleInk, InkBox and InkLoader
Cisco Talos is disclosing a new suspected data theft campaign, active since at least 2021, we attribute to an advanced persistent threat actor (APT) we’re calling “LilacSquid.” Multiple TTPs utilized in this campaign bear some overlap with North Korean APT groups.
New Generative AI category added to Talos reputation services
Generative AI applies to any site “whose primary purpose is to use artificial intelligence models to generate output in the form of text, audio, video or images based on user-supplied prompts.”
Out-of-bounds reads in Adobe Acrobat; Foxit PDF Reader contains vulnerability that could lead to SYSTEM-level privileges
Acrobat, one of the most popular PDF readers currently available, contains two out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities that could lead to the exposure of sensitive contents of arbitrary memory in the application.
Apple and Google are taking steps to curb the abuse of location-tracking devices — but what about others?
Plus, SS7 vulnerabilities are being exploited and BreachForums is taken down again.
From trust to trickery: Brand impersonation over the email attack vector
Cisco recently developed and released a new feature to detect brand impersonation in emails when adversaries pretend to be a legitimate corporation.
Rounding up some of the major headlines from RSA
Here’s a rundown of some things you may have missed if you weren’t able to stay on top of the things coming out of the conference.
Talos releases new macOS open-source fuzzer
Compared to fuzzing for software vulnerabilities on Linux, where most of the code is open-source, targeting anything on macOS presents a few difficulties.