Beers with Talos Ep. #45: SoHo attacks, IoT devices, and the cesspool setting

Threat Roundup for Jan. 11 to Jan. 18

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Jan. 11 and Jan. 18. 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

What we learned by unpacking a recent wave of Imminent RAT infections using AMP

Cisco Talos' new reputation dispute system

Beers with Talos EP44: Fun with 2018’s Worst and Talks We Want to Hear

Dynamic Data Resolver (DDR) - IDA Plugin

Emotet re-emerges after the holidays

While Emotet has been around for many years and is one of the most well-known pieces of malware in the wild, that doesn't mean attackers don't try to freshen it up. Cisco Talos recently discovered several new campaigns distributing the infamous banking trojan via email. T

Vulnerability Deep Dive: TP-Link TL-R600VPN remote code execution vulnerabilities

Introduction TP-Link recently patched three vulnerabilities in their TL-R600VPN gigabit broadband VPN router, firmware version 1.3.0. Cisco Talos publicly disclosed these issues after working with TP-Link to ensure that a patch was available. Now that a fix is out there, we wan

Pylocky Unlocked: Cisco Talos releases PyLocky ransomware decryptor

This tool was developed by Mike Bautista. PyLocky is a family of ransomware written in Python that attempts to masquerade as a Locky variant. This ransomware will encrypt all files on a victim machine before demanding that the user pay a ransom to gain access to their decrypted f