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December 8, 2017 14:24

Threat Round Up for Dec 01 - Dec 08

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between December 01 and December 08. 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 highl

December 8, 2017 08:40

Vulnerability Spotlight: TALOS-2017-0393 / CVE-2017-2886 - ACDSee Ultimate 10 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

An memory corruption vulnerability exists in the .PSD parsing functionality of ACD Systems International Inc. ACDSee Ultimate 10. An attacker can build a specially crafted PSD file that uses this bug to trigger a memory corruption. A byte value is taken directly from the .PSD fil

December 7, 2017 13:06

The Mutiny Fuzzing Framework and Decept Proxy

This blog post is authored by James Spadaro of Cisco ASIG and Lilith Wyatt of Cisco Talos. Imagine a scenario where you, as a vulnerability researcher, are tasked with auditing a network application to identify vulnerabilities. By itself, the task may not seem too daunting unti

November 30, 2017 10:00

Vulnerability Walkthrough: 7zip CVE-2016-2334 HFS+ Code Execution Vulnerability

This blog post was authored by Marcin Noga of Cisco Talos. Introduction In 2016 Talos released an advisory for CVE-2016-2334, which was a remote code execution vulnerability affecting certain versions of 7zip, a popular compression utility. In this blog post we will walk throug

November 28, 2017 00:52

ROKRAT Reloaded

This post was authored by Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and with contributions from Jungsoo An. Executive Summary Earlier this year, Talos published 2 articles concerning South Korean threats. The first one was about the use of a malicious HWP document which dropped downloade

November 22, 2017 08:18

Talos Wins The 5th Volatility Plugin Contest With Pyrebox

Talos has won this year's 5th Volatility plugin contest with Pyrebox. Volatility is a well-known open-source framework designed to analyze operating system memory. The framework has existed since 2007. For the previous 5 years they have run a plugin contest to find the most

November 21, 2017 14:05

Beers with Talos EP 17: Greek Gods, Trojans, and the Spice Girls as Spirit Animals

Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast Episode 17 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 EP17 Show Notes: Matt hijacks the Roundtable to tell us which Spice Girl

November 20, 2017 12:14

This Holiday Season - Buy One IoT Device, Get Free CVEs

As the Internet of Things gains steam and continues to develop, so are adversaries and the threats affecting these systems. Companies throughout the world are busy deploying low cost Internet-connected computing devices (aka the Internet of Things) to solve business problems and