What to do when you click on a suspicious link
As the go-to cybersecurity expert for your friends and family, you’ll want to be ready for those “I clicked a suspicious link — now what?” messages. Share this quick guide to help them know exactly what to do next.
Too salty to handle: Exposing cases of CSS abuse for hidden text salting
A simple yet effective tactic, known as hidden text salting, is increasingly used by cybercriminals over the past few months to evade even the most advanced email security solutions, including those powered by machine learning and large language models.
Family group chats: Your (very last) line of cyber defense
Amy gives an homage to parents in family group chats everywhere who want their children to stay safe in this wild world.
UAT-8099: Chinese-speaking cybercrime group targets high-value IIS for SEO fraud
Cisco Talos is disclosing details on UAT-8099, a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group mainly involved in SEO fraud and theft of high-value credentials, configuration files, and certificate data.
Nvidia and Adobe vulnerabilities
Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed five vulnerabilities in Nvidia and one in Adobe Acrobat. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulnerabili
Great Scott, I’m tired
Hazel celebrates unseen effort in cybersecurity and shares some PII. Completely unrelated, but did you know “Back to the Future” turns 40 this year?
What happens when you engage Cisco Talos Incident Response?
What happens when you bring in a team of cybersecurity responders? How do we turn chaos into control, and what is the long-term value that Talos IR provides to the organizations we work with?
How RainyDay, Turian and a new PlugX variant abuse DLL search order hijacking
Talos discovered that a new PlugX variant’s features overlap with both the RainyDay and Turian backdoors
Put together an IR playbook — for your personal mental health and wellbeing
This edition pulls the curtain aside to show the realities of the VPNFilter campaign. Joe reflects on the struggle to prevent burnout in a world constantly on fire.