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September 28, 2017 11:09

Banking Trojan Attempts To Steal Brazillion$

This post was authored by Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vanja Svajcer Introduction Banking trojans are among some of the biggest threats to everyday users as they directly impact the user in terms of financial loss. Talos recently observed a new campaign specific to South

September 27, 2017 13:38

FIN7 Group Uses JavaScript and Stealer DLL Variant in New Attacks

This post was authored by Michael Gorelik and Josh Reynolds Executive Summary Throughout this blog post we will be detailing a newly discovered RTF document family that is being leveraged by the FIN7 group (also known as the Carbanak gang) which is a financially-motivated grou

September 20, 2017 17:57

CCleaner Command and Control Causes Concern

Introduction Talos recently published a technical analysis of a backdoor which was included with version 5.33 of the CCleaner application. During our investigation we were provided an archive containing files that were stored on the C2 server. Initially, we had concerns about th

September 20, 2017 10:37

Beers with Talos EP 13:A Vast CCleanup, Strutting Your Stuff, and the Ex$ploit Economy

Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast Episode 13 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 Beers with Talos is a fast-paced, smart, and humorous podcast focused on sec

September 18, 2017 03:51

CCleanup: A Vast Number of Machines at Risk

Update 9/18: CCleaner Cloud version 1.07.3191 is also reported to be affected Update 9/19: This issue was discovered and reported by both Morphisec and Cisco in separate in-field cases and reported separately to Avast. Update 9/19: There has been some confusion on how the DGA do

September 15, 2017 16:10

Threat Round Up For Sept 8 - Sept 15

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between September 08 and September 15. 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 hig

September 14, 2017 15:54

Beers with Talos EP12 - IrmaGerd! The Internet Ate Our Podcast!

Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast Episode 12 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 Beers with Talos is a fast-paced, smart, and humorous podcast focused on sec

September 14, 2017 15:38

Deep Dive in MarkLogic Exploitation Process via Argus PDF Converter

This post authored by Marcin Noga with contributions from William Largent    Talos discovers and responsibly discloses software vulnerabilities on a regular basis. Occasionally we publish a deep technical analysis of how the vulnerability was discovered or its potential impact. I

September 14, 2017 10:30

Vulnerability Spotlight: YAML Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Ansible Vault and Tablib

Vulnerabilities discovered by Cory Duplantis of Talos. Talos is disclosing the presence of remote code execution vulnerabilities in the processing of Yet Another Markup Language (YAML) content in Ansible Vault and Tablib. Attackers can exploit these vulnerabilities through suppl