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May 14, 2019 16:00

Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution bug in Antenna House Rainbow PDF Office document converter

Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Executive summary A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Antenna House’s Rainbow PDF when the software attempts to convert a PowerPoint document. Rainbow PDF has the ability to convert Microsoft Office 97-2016 d

May 14, 2019 14:23

Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Executive summary There are two remote code execution vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader that could occur if a user were to open a malicious PDF on their machine using the software. Acrobat is the most wi

May 13, 2019 10:04

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in the Roav A1 Dashcam

Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Executive Summary Cisco Talos is disclosing multiple vulnerabilities in the Anker Roav A1 Dashcam and the Novatek NT9665X chipset. The Roav A1 Dashcam by Anker is a dashboard camera that allows users to connect

May 10, 2019 17:49

Threat Roundup for May 3 to May 10

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 03 and May 10. 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 key

May 9, 2019 14:00

Threat Source newsletter (May 9)

Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by defenders, for defenders

May 9, 2019 09:30

Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution bug in SQLite

Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Executive summary SQLite contains an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain the ability to remotely execute code on the victim machine. SQLite is a client-sidedatabase managemen

May 6, 2019 10:20

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple bugs in several Jenkins plugins

Peter Adkins of Cisco Umbrella discovered these vulnerabilities. Executive summary Jenkins is an open-source automation server written in Java. There are several plugins that exist to integrate Jenkins with other pieces of software, such as GitLab. Today, Cisco Talos is disclo

May 3, 2019 14:10

Threat Roundup for April 26 to May 3

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 26 and May 03. 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