Vulnerability Spotlight: Information disclosure in Windows 10 Kernel
Marcin Towalski of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the Windows 10 kernel. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking the victim into opening a specially craft
Vulnerability Spotlight: WAGO products contain remote code execution, other vulnerabilities
Patrick DeSantis, Carl Hurd, Kelly Leuschner and Lilith [-_-]; of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered several vulnerabilities in multiple products from the company WAGO. WAGO produces a line of automation software cal
Threat Roundup for February 28 to March 6
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 28 and March 6. 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 (March 5, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Sure, all anyone wants to talk about is coronavirus. But what about cyber security? We’ve still got cool stuff, like
Bisonal: 10 years of play
By Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura. Update 06/03/20: added samples from 2020. Executive summary * Security researchers detected and exposed the Bisonal malware over the past 10 years. But the Tonto team, the threat actor behind it, didn't stop. * Th
Video: What defenders can learn from past ransomware attacks
The Cisco Talos Incident Response "Stories from the Field" video series returns with another entry from Matt Aubert. This time, Matt discusses ransomware infections he's seen in real-time, and shares what defenders can learn from others' mistakes and recovery.
Threat Roundup for February 21 to February 28
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 21 and Feb. 28. 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 (Feb. 27, 2020)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We know we’ve kept you waiting for a while, but the new Snort Resources page is finally here. We’ve got new and impr
Beers with Talos Ep. #73: Feature ownership, vuln advisories and fancy audio FX
Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast episode No. 73 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Feb. 19, 2020 Craig made an oopsie. Pardon his echo-chamber reverb. We had no idea unti