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October 10, 2017 10:56

Vulnerability Spotlight: Arbitrary Code Execution Bugs in Simple DirectMedia Layer Fixed

Today, Talos is disclosing two vulnerabilities that have been identified in the Simple DirectMedia Layer library. Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform development library designed for use in video playback software, emulators, and games by providing low level access

October 4, 2017 15:05

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Computerinsel Photoline

These vulnerabilities are discovered by Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos. Today, Talos is releasing details of multiple vulnerabilities discovered within the Computerinsel GmbH PhotoLine image processing software. PhotoLine, developed by Computerinsel GmbH, is a well established raste

October 3, 2017 20:38

Beers with Talos EP14: Ranking Threats and Avoiding Bush League Breach Response

Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast Episode 14 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 EP14 Show Notes:  We haven’t gone around the table and introduced ourselve

September 29, 2017 16:56

Threat Round Up for Sept 22 - Sept 29

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between September 22 and September 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 hig

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