Threat Source newsletter for June 18, 2020
Good afternoon, Talos readers. Now that Cisco Live is over, you can access both of Talos’ talks on-demand here if you registered for the online event. The latest Beers with Talos episode covers how to push your career in cyber security forward when you feel like you’re stuck i
Beers with Talos Ep. #84: Mid-career advancement in cyber security
If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded May 26, 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 no
Quarterly report: Incident Response trends in Summer 2020
By David Liebenberg and Caitlin Huey. For the fourth quarter in a row, Ryuk dominated the threat landscape in incident response. As we mentioned in last quarter’s report, Ryuk has shifted from relying on commodity trojans to using living-off-the-land tools. This has led to a dec
Threat Roundup for June 5 to June 12
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 5 and June 12. 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 ke
Beers with Talos Ep. #83: The In-between, Vol. 4
If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded May 15, 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 re
Tor2Mine is up to their old tricks — and adds a few new ones
By Kendall McKay and Joe Marshall. Threat summary * Cisco Talos has identified a resurgence of activity by Tor2Mine, a cryptocurrency mining group that was likely last active in 2018. Tor2Mine is deploying additional malware to harvest credentials and steal more money, includ
Threat Source newsletter for June 11, 2020
Good afternoon, Talos readers. We are back this week with new content, mainly around Microsoft Patch Tuesday. We have our complete breakdown of all the vulns here, as well as in-depth information on two remote code execution vulnerabilities one of our researchers discovered in E
Vulnerability Spotlight: Two code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel
Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered two code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft released updates for these two bugs as part of their Patch Tuesday security up
Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution vulnerability in Firefox’s SharedWorkerService function
Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. The Mozilla Firefox web browser contains a vulnerability in its SharedWorkerService function that could allow an attacker to gain the ability to remotely execute code on a target’s machine.