Beers with Talos breaks down the 2025 Talos Year in Review
The Beers with Talos team unpack the biggest cybersecurity threats of 2025, from React2Shell to ransomware and identity abuse, and what it all means for defenders going forward.
2025 Talos Year in Review: Speed, scale, and staying power
The 2025 Talos Year in Review is available now. Understand evolving adversary playbooks and how to strengthen your organization’s defenses.
You have to invite them in
While a garlic and wooden stakes keep the vampires at bay in movies, they won’t save your network once an attacker has been "invited in." Discover why identity is the new frontier of cyber horror in this week’s edition.
Everyday tools, extraordinary crimes: the ransomware exfiltration playbook
Attackers use trusted tools for data theft, making traditional detection unreliable. The Exfiltration Framework enables defenders to spot exfiltration by focusing on behavioral signals across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments rather than static tool indicators.
Transparent COM instrumentation for malware analysis
In this article, Cisco Talos presents DispatchLogger, a new open-source tool that delivers high visibility into late-bound IDispatch COM object interactions via transparent proxy interception.
This one’s for you, Mom
This week, Joe talks about allyship and how being aware of an issue is the first step in helping to fix it.
DirectX, OpenFOAM, Libbiosig vulnerabilities
Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed vulnerabilities in the BioSig Project Libbiosig library and OpenCFD OpenFOAM, as well as an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft DirectX.
Agentic AI security: Why you need to know about autonomous agents now
There are many benefits and security risks of deploying agentic AI within organizations. This blog emphasizes the importance of robust risk management and threat modeling to defend against both internal operational errors and potential malicious exploitation.
Spinning complex ideas into clear docs with Kri Dontje
The episode features Kri Dontje discussing her role in translating complex technical cybersecurity topics into clear, accessible documentation, emphasizing the importance of consistency, accuracy, and collaboration with subject matter experts.