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February 19, 2020 08:42

Cisco Talos Incident Response "Stories from the Field" #2: When do lawyers get involved?

The second video in our "Stories in the Field" series from Cisco Talos Incident Response is here, with Matt Aubert talking about lawyers. While getting a general counsel involved may seem like an arduous process for many incident response teams, Matt Aubert argues in t

February 18, 2020 12:07

Vulnerability Spotlight: Memory corruption, DoS vulnerabilities in CoTURN

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. CoTURN contains denial-of-service and memory corruption vulnerabilities in the way its web server parses POST requests. CoTURN is a TURN server implementation that can be used as a general- pur

February 18, 2020 11:01

Building a bypass with MSBuild

By Vanja Svajcer. NEWS SUMMARY * Living-off-the-land binaries (LoLBins) continue to pose a risk to security defenders. * We analyze the usage of the Microsoft Build Engine by attackers and red team personnel. * These threats demonstrate techniques T1127 (Trusted Developer

February 14, 2020 16:19

Beers with Talos Ep. #72: Getting to Patch Day - Understanding Vulnerability Risks and Options

Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast episode No. 72 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Jan. 31, 2020 When a vulnerability is released, regardless if it has a website and logo

February 14, 2020 14:35

Threat Roundup for February 7 to February 14

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 7 and Feb. 14. 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

February 13, 2020 14:07

Threat actors attempt to capitalize on coronavirus outbreak

* Coronavirus is dominating the news and threat actors are taking advantage. * Cisco Talos has found multiple malware families being distributed with Coronavirus lures and themes. This includes emotet and several RAT variants. Executive Summary Using the news to try and incr

February 13, 2020 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 13, 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. This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday was particularly hefty, with the company disclosing nearly 100 vulnerabilities

February 12, 2020 14:45

Loda RAT Grows Up

By Chris Neal. * Over the past several months, Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes websites hosting a new version of Loda, a remote access trojan (RAT) written in AutoIT. * These websites also host malicious documents that begin a multi-stage infection c

February 12, 2020 08:44

Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution vulnerability in Apple Safari

Marcin Towalski of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. The Apple Safari web browser contains a remote code execution vulnerability in its Fonts feature. If a user were to open a malicious web page in Safari, they could trigger a type confusion, result