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April 21, 2026 08:29

[Podcast] It's not you, it's your printer: State-sponsored and phishing threats in 2025

In this episode of Talos Takes, Amy and Martin Lee unpack state-sponsored and phishing trends from the 2025 Talos Year in Review.

April 21, 2026 08:00

Phishing and MFA exploitation: Targeting the keys to the kingdom

In 2025, attackers increasingly targeted weaknesses in multi-factor authentication (MFA) workflows, and phishing attacks leveraged valid, compromised credentials to launch lures from trusted accounts. The trends focused entirely on trust, or the lack thereof, in everyday business operations.

April 21, 2026 06:00

Bad Apples: Weaponizing native macOS primitives for movement and execution

Cisco Talos documents several macOS living-off-the-land (LOTL) techniques, demonstrating that native pathways for movement and execution remain accessible to those who understand the underlying architecture.

April 16, 2026 15:00

Foxit, LibRaw vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed one Foxit Reader vulnerability, and six LibRaw file reader vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s thir

April 16, 2026 14:00

The Q1 vulnerability pulse

Thor provides an overview of the Q1 2026 vulnerability statistics, highlighting key trends in legacy CVEs and the evolving impact of AI on the threat landscape.

April 16, 2026 06:00

PowMix botnet targets Czech workforce

Cisco Talos discovered an ongoing malicious campaign, operating since at least December 2025, affecting a broader workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet we call “PowMix.”

April 16, 2026 06:00

More than pretty pictures: Wendy Bishop on visual storytelling in tech

Wendy shares the unique challenges and rewards of bridging the gap between artistic expression and highly technical research.

April 15, 2026 06:00

The n8n n8mare: How threat actors are misusing AI workflow automation

Cisco Talos research has uncovered agentic AI workflow automation platform abuse in emails. Recently, we identified an increase in the number of emails that abuse n8n, one of these platforms, from as early as October 2025 through March 2026.

April 14, 2026 16:27

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2026 - Snort Rule and Prominent Vulnerabilities

Overview of patch tuesday release from Microsoft for April 2026.