Threat Roundup for January 24 to January 31
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Jan. 24 and Jan. 31. 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 (Jan. 30, 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. Be sure to pay close attention Tuesday for some changes we have coming to Snort.org. We’ll spare you the details for
Threat Roundup for January 17 to January 24
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Jan. 17 and Jan. 24. 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 (Jan. 23, 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. Despite tensions starting to fizzle between the U.S. and Iran, people are still worried about cyber conflict. What w
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in some AMD graphics cards
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Multiple vulnerabilities exist in a driver associated with the AMD Radeon line of graphics cards. An attacker can exploit these bugs by providing a specially crafted shader file to the user while u
Breaking down a two-year run of Vivin’s cryptominers
News Summary * There is another large-scale cryptomining attack from an actor we are tracking as "Vivin" that has been active since at least November 2017. * "Vivin" has consistently evolved over the past few years, despite having poor operational security
Vulnerability Spotlight: Bitdefender BOX 2 bootstrap remote code execution vulnerabilities
Claudio Bozzato, Lilith Wyatt and Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. The Bitdefender BOX 2 contains two remote code execution vulnerabilities in its bootstrap stage. The BOX 2 is a device that protects users’ home networks from a
Threat Roundup for January 10 to January 17
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Jan. 10 and Jan. 17. 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
JhoneRAT: Cloud based python RAT targeting Middle Eastern countries
By Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura with contributions from Eric Kuhla. Updated Jan. 17, 2020: the documents do not exploit the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. Executive Summary Today, Cisco Talos is unveiling the details of a new RAT we have identified we're