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October 2, 2018 12:07

Vulnerability Spotlight: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Collab reviewServer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Overview Today, Cisco Talos is releasing details of a new vulnerability within Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most popular and most feature-rich PDF reader. It has a large user base, is usually a default PDF

October 1, 2018 12:59

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Issues in Foxit PDF Reader

TALOS-2018-0626 / CVE-2018-3956 is an exploitable out-of-bounds read vulnerability which can disclose sensitive memory content and could be used, in conjunction with other vulnerabilities, to aid in full compromise. A specially crafted PDF file could trigger this vulnerability.

October 1, 2018 08:30

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Atlantis Word Processor

Vulnerabilities discovered by Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos. Overview Cisco Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities discovered in Atlantis Word Processor. Atlantis Word Processor is a portable word processor that is also capable of converting any TXT, RTF, ODT, DOC, WRI, o

September 28, 2018 09:14

Threat Roundup Sept 21 - 28

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed this week — covering the dates between Sept. 21 and 28. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats we

September 26, 2018 10:59

VPNFilter III: More Tools for the Swiss Army Knife of Malware

# code Summary VPNFilter — a multi-stage, modular framework that has infected hundreds of thousands of network devices across the globe — is now known to possess even greater capabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered seven additional third-stage VPNFilter modules that add

September 25, 2018 13:21

Vulnerability Spotlight: Epee Levin Packet Deserialization Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability was discovered by Lilith (>_>) of Cisco Talos. Overview The Epee library, which is leveraged by a large number of cryptocurrencies, contains an exploitable code execution vulnerability in the Levin deserialization functionality. An attacker can send a s

September 24, 2018 10:45

Adwind Dodges AV via DDE

This blog post is authored byPaul Rascagneres, Vitor Ventura and with the contribution of Tomislav Pericin and Robert Perica from ReversingLabs. Introduction Cisco Talos, along with fellow cybersecurity firm ReversingLabs, recently discovered a new spam campaign that is spreadi