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October 5, 2018 12:23

Threat Roundup Sept 28 - Oct 5

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. 28 and Oct. 5. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats

October 3, 2018 10:38

Vulnerability Spotlight: Google PDFium JBIG2 Image ComposeToOpt2WithRect Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Overview Cisco Talos is releasing details of a new vulnerability in Google PDFium's JBIG2 library. An exploitable out-of-bounds read on the heap vulnerability exists in the JBIG2-parsing code in Google Chrome, version 67.0.33

October 2, 2018 16:25

BruCON Primer: 10 Years and Cisco Talos Talks

Cisco Talos will have a significant presence at the 10th edition of BruCON, which kicks off this week. Below, you will find the presentations that Talos researchers will give, along with a brief overview of the topics they will discuss. We are fortunate to have multiple speakers

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