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January 7, 2021 10:31

Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service vulnerability in Rockwell Automation RSLinx

Alexander Perez-Palma of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Ethernet/IP server functionality of Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability

January 6, 2021 09:00

A Deep Dive into Lokibot Infection Chain

Lokibot is one of the most well-known information stealers on the malware landscape. In this post, we'll provide a technical breakdown of one of the latest Lokibot campaigns. Talos also has a new script to unpack the dropper's third stage. The actors behind Lokibot usu

January 5, 2021 13:35

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in SoftMaker Office TextMaker

A Cisco Talos team member discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in SoftMaker's TextMaker software. A user could trigger these vulnerabilities by opening an attacker-created, malicious document. An adve

January 5, 2021 12:22

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Genivia gSOAP

A Cisco Talos team member discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in various Genivia gSOAP toolkit plugins. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to carry out a variety of malicious activities, inclu

January 4, 2021 13:14

Beers with Talos Ep. #98: Why ransomware actors are (and aren’t) targeting health care

If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded early November 2020. This is an episode we recorded in early November but got pushed back in the end of year shuffle to make production schedules work. We’re happy to put this one out now with

December 21, 2020 17:38

2020: The year in malware

By Jon Munshaw. Nothing was normal in 2020. Our ideas of working from offices, in-person meetings, hands-on learning and basically everything else was thrown into disarray early in the year. Since then, we defenders have had to adapt. But so have workers around the globe, and th

December 21, 2020 17:31

Talos Vulnerability Discovery Year in Review — 2020

While major attacks like ransomware and COVID-19-themed campaigns made headlines across the globe this year, many attacks were prevented through simple practices of finding, disclosing and patching vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos' Systems Vulnerability Research Team discovered

December 18, 2020 18:25

Threat Roundup for December 11 to December 18

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Dec. 11 and Dec. 18. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting k

December 17, 2020 14:00

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.