Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends in fall 2019
By David Liebenberg and Kendall McKay. While many Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) engagements have shown similar patterns over the past two quarters, we’re seeing a dangerous trend emerge this winter. Threat actors are increasingly combining the exfiltration of sensitive da
Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service, information leak bugs in Mini-SNMPD
Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Mini-SNMPD, a lightweight implementation of a Simple Network Management Protocol server. An attacker can exploit these bugs by providing a specially crafted
Talos Takes back with new episode, feed
Talos Takes, our new bite-size podcast, is back with its own feed and a new show. We first unveiled Talos Takes in early December, and took some time to develop a new Talos Podcasts page to accommodate Talos Takes and Beers with Talos. Now you have two Talos shows you can subscr
Beers with Talos Ep. #71: I Have the Power(Shell)
Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast episode No. 71 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. 17, 2020 PowerShell is a frequent flyer in security headlines — a powerful and oft
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