Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution vulnerabilities in LEADTOOLS 20
Cisco Talos recently discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the LEADTOOLS line of imaging toolkits. LEADTOOLS is a collection of toolkits designed to perform a variety of functions aimed at integrating documents, multimedia and imaging technologies into applications.
Threat Spotlight: Valak Slithers Its Way Into Manufacturing and Transportation Networks
By Nick Biasini, Edmund Brumaghin and Mariano Graziano. Threat summary * Attackers are actively distributing the Valak malware family around the globe, with enterprises, in particular, being targeted. * These campaigns make use of existing email threads from compromised acco
PROMETHIUM extends global reach with StrongPity3 APT
By Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura. News summary * The threat actor behind StrongPity is not deterred despite being exposed multiple times over the past four years. * They continue to expand their victimology and attack seemingly non related countries. *
Beers with Talos Ep. #85: The In-Between, Vol. 5
If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded May 29, 2020 Prod. Note: Things are a hot mess right now and the team thinks that there are voices you have needed to hear more than ours, so we held back on releasing a few episodes. We are releasing those n
Threat Roundup for June 19 to June 26
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 19 and June 26. 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
Threat Source newsletter for June 25, 2020
Good afternoon, Talos readers. We recently decided to replace our use of the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist" with "block list" and "allow list.” Even though these terms are commonly in use in the security industry, we will not go along with c
Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service vulnerability in NVIDIA driver
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Executive summary The NVWGF2UMX_CFG.DLL driver contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that an attacker could use to disrupt processes over a virtual machine. An adversary could exploit this bug
Cisco Talos replacing all mentions of 'blacklist,' 'whitelist'
There are many ways to respond to injustice, both large and small, but each response is important. While we acknowledge it is a small change, Cisco Talos is moving to replace our use of the terms "blacklist" and "whitelist" with "block list" and &quo
IndigoDrop spreads via military-themed lures to deliver Cobalt Strike
By Asheer Malhotra. * Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes military-themed malicious Microsoft Office documents (maldocs) to spread Cobalt Strike beacons containing full-fledged RAT capabilities. * These maldocs use malicious macros to deliver a multist