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July 3, 2018 06:00

Smoking Guns - Smoke Loader learned new tricks

Smoke Loader is primarily used as a downloader to drop and execute additional malware like ransomware or cryptocurrency miners.

June 29, 2018 11:42

Threat Roundup for June 22-29

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 22 and June 29. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting

June 29, 2018 10:28

Vulnerability Spotlight: VMWare Workstation DoS Vulnerability

Discovered by a member of Cisco Talos.Today, Talos is disclosing a vulnerability in VMWare Workstation that could result in Denial of Service.  VMWare Workstation is a widely used virtualization platform designed to run alongside a normal operating system, allowing users to use b

June 26, 2018 11:00

Files Cannot Be Decrypted? Challenge Accepted. Talos Releases ThanatosDecryptor

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter and Andrew Williams. Executive summary Cisco Talos has analyzed Thanatos, a ransomware variant that is being distributed via multiple malware campaigns that have been conducted over the past few months. As a result of

June 22, 2018 19:05

Threat Roundup for June 16-22

As usual, we are bringing you the weekly Threat Roundup to highlight the most prevalent threats we've seen between June 15 and 22. 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

June 20, 2018 11:00

My Little FormBook

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Summary Cisco Talos has been tracking a new campaign involving the FormBook malware since May 2018 that utilizes four different malicious documents in a single phishing email. FormBook is an inexpensive stealer a

June 19, 2018 11:25

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities In Insteon Hub PubNub

Vulnerabilities discovered by Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos Talos is disclosing twelve new vulnerabilities in Insteon Hub, ranging from remote code execution, to denial of service. The majority of the vulnerabilities have their root cause in the unsafe usage of the strcpy() fun