New HawkEye Reborn Variant Emerges Following Ownership Change
Edmund Brumaghin and Holger Unterbrink authored this blog post. Executive summary Malware designed to steal sensitive information has been a threat to organizations around the world for a long time. The emergence of the greyware market and the increased commercialization of key
Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial of service in VMWare Workstation 15
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Executive summary VMware Workstation 15 contains an exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability. Workstation allows users to run multiple operating systems on a Linux or Windows PC. An attacker could trigger this partic
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Shimo VPN's helper tool
Discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos. Overview Cisco Talos is disclosing a series of vulnerabilities found in the Shimo VPN Helper Tool. Shimo VPN is a popular VPN client for MacOS that can be used to connect multiple VPN accounts to one application. These specific vulnera
Threat Roundup for April 5 to April 12
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 05 and April 12. 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
Threat Source (April 11)
Sextortion profits decline despite higher volume, new techniques
Sextortion spammers continue blasting away at high volume. The success they experienced with several high-profile campaigns last year has led these attackers to continue transmitting massive amounts of sextortion email. These sextortion spammers have been doing everything they ca
Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Acrobat Reader remote code execution
Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Executive summary There is a remote code execution vulnerability 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 widely
Gustuff banking botnet targets Australia
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cisco Talos has uncovered a new Android-based campaign targeting Australian financial institutions. As the investigation progressed, Talos came to understand that this campaign was associated with the "ChristinaMorrow" text message spam scam previousl
