The Many Tentacles of the Necurs Botnet
This post was written by Jaeson Schultz. Introduction Over the past five years the Necurs botnet has established itself as the largest purveyor of spam worldwide. Necurs is responsible for emailing massive amounts of banking malware, ransomware, dating spam, pump-n-dump stock s
Beers with Talos EP20: Crypto, Vuln Disco, and the Spectre Meltdown
Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast Episode 20 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP20 Show Notes: This is easily our best podcast of 2018 (so far). The cr
Vulnerability Spotlight: Tinysvcmdns Multi-label DNS DoS Vulnerability
Overview Talos is disclosing a single NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the tinysvcmdns library. Tinysvcmdns is a tiny MDNS responder implementation for publishing services. This is essentially a mini and embedded version of Avahi or Bonjour. Details Discovered by Cla
Korea In The Crosshairs
This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres and with contributions from Jungsoo An. A one year review of campaigns performed by an actor with multiple campaigns mainly linked to South Korean targets. Executive Summary This article exposes the malicious
Threat Round Up for January 5 - 12
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between January 05 and January 12. 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
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Unpatched Vulnerabilities in Blender Identified
Update 1/25/18: Blender has released version 2.79a to address these issues Technology has evolved in incredible ways that has helped people to create and visualize media like never before. Today, people can use tools such as Blender to visualize, model, and animate 3D content,
Vulnerability Spotlight: Ruby Rails Gem XSS Vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities discovered by Zachary Sanchez of Cisco ASIG Overview Talos has discovered two XSS vulnerabilities in Ruby Rails Gems. Rails is a Ruby framework designed to create web services or web pages. Ruby Gems is a package manager for distributing software packages as
Microsoft Patch Tuesday - January 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 56 new vulnerabilities with 16 of them rated critical, 39 of them rated important and 1
