Heather Couk is here to keep your spirits up during a cyber emergency, even if it takes the “Rocky” music
. The bulk of her career was with a manufacturing company working as a security and email administrator, but she uses her criminal justice degree daily now with Talos IR helping to track down bad actors or helping customers understand adversaries’ motivation and tactics.
Why Apple added protection against quantum computing when quantum computing doesn’t even exist yet
Apple’s newest encryption technology, called PQ3, now secures iMessages with end-to-end encryption that is quantum-resistant.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader could lead to remote code execution
Other potential code execution vulnerabilities are also present in Weston Embedded µC/HTTP-server, a web server component in Weston Embedded's in-house operating system and an open-source library that processes several types of potentially sensitive medical tests.
Stop running security in passive mode
As we begin a new year, we wanted to address one of the biggest issues we consistently see in our investigations: passive security. Incident response engagements are an important part of our work and the intelligence-gathering process and their associated reports can be a treas
TimbreStealer campaign targets Mexican users with financial lures
Talos has observed a phishing spam campaign targeting potential victims in Mexico, luring users to download a new obfuscated information stealer we’re calling TimbreStealer, which has been active since at least November 2023.
TikTok’s latest actions to combat misinformation shows it’s not just a U.S. problem
Fake news, disinformation, misinformation – whatever label you want to put on it – will not just go away if one election in the U.S. goes one way or the other.
TinyTurla-NG in-depth tooling and command and control analysis
Cisco Talos, in cooperation with CERT.NGO, has discovered new malicious components used by the Turla APT. New findings from Talos illustrate the inner workings of the command and control (C2) scripts deployed on the compromised WordPress servers utilized in the compromise we previously disclosed.
How CVSS 4.0 changes (or doesn’t) the way we see vulnerability severity
While distilling risk down to a simple numerical score is helpful for many in the security space, it is also an imperfect system that can often leave out important context.
Astaroth, Mekotio & Ousaban abusing Google Cloud Run in LATAM-focused malware campaigns
Since September 2023, we have observed a significant increase in the volume of malicious emails leveraging the Google Cloud Run service to infect potential victims with banking trojans.