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February 20, 2018 12:44

Talos Quarterly Threat Briefing - Winter 2018

Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Time: 1:00pm ET/10:00am PT Topic: Miners, Malspam, and Meltdowns Recording available here: http://cs.co/TalosQTB-Q218R Space is limited for this event, so be sure to save your spot.  Following the webinar, the video will also be made av

February 16, 2018 12:55

Threat Round Up for Feb 9 - Feb 16

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between February 9 and February 16. 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 highli

February 14, 2018 10:54

COINHOARDER: Tracking a Ukrainian Bitcoin Phishing Ring DNS Style

This post is authored by Jeremiah O'Connor and Dave Maynor with contributions from Artsiom Holub and Austin McBride. Executive Summary Cisco has been tracking a bitcoin theft campaign for over 6 months. The campaign was discovered internally and researched with the aid of a

February 13, 2018 16:26

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - February 2018

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - February 2018 Today Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month's advisory release addresses 54 new vulnerabilities with 14 of them rated c

February 12, 2018 08:16

Olympic Destroyer Takes Aim At Winter Olympics

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Ben Baker and Matthew Molyett contributed to this post. Update 2/13 08:30 We have updated the information regarding the use of stolen credentials Update 2/12 12:00: We have updated the destructor section with ac

February 9, 2018 12:29

Threat Round Up for Feb 2 - Feb 9

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between February 2 and February 9. 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 highlig

February 7, 2018 00:48

Targeted Attacks In The Middle East

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres with assistance of Martin Lee. Executive Summary Talos has identified a targeted attacks affecting the Middle East. This campaign contains the following elements, which are described in detail in this article. * The use of allege

February 6, 2018 14:15

Beers with Talos EP 22: Forget the ASA, Rob Joyce Favorited Craig’s Tweet

Featuring: Craig Williams (@Security_Craig), Joel Esler (@JoelEsler), Matt Olney (@kpyke) and Nigel Houghton (@EnglishLFC). Hosted by Mitch Neff (@MitchNeff). Find all episodes: http://cs.co/talospodcast Subscribe via iTunes (and leave a review!) http://cs.co/talositunes Check

February 2, 2018 11:27

Flash 0-Day In The Wild: Group 123 At The Controls

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Executive Summary The 1st of February, Adobe published an advisory concerning a Flash vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878). This vulnerability is a use after free that allows Remote Code Execute through a malformed Flas