The Internet of Vulnerable Things
Introduction Technological progress is resulting in computing systems that are smaller, cheaper and consuming less power. These micro-computing systems are able to be integrated into everyday objects; when coupled with ubiquitous wireless connectivity these devices form the “Inte
BWT EP5 - It Has Been 0-days Since This Term was Abused
Beers with Talos Episode 5 "It Has Been 0-days Since This Term was Abused" is now available Listen here: Listen via iTunes Listen directly on the Talos Podcasts page. Episode Notes: The crew talks about the potential of Samba echoing WannaCry and blocking SMB ports
Threat Round-up for May 19 - May 26
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 19 and May 26. 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 highlighting ke
Samba Vulnerability: Dancing Its Way to a Network Near You
Overview Today, a new vulnerability affecting the widely used Samba software was released. Samba is the SMB/CIFS protocol commonly used in *NIX operating systems. CVE-2017-7494 has the potential to impact many systems around the world. This vulnerability could allow a user to up
File2pcap - The Talos Swiss Army Knife of Snort Rule Creation
This post was authored by Martin Zeiser with contributions by Joel Esler At Talos we are constantly on the lookout for threats to our customers networks, and part of the protection process is creating Snort rules for the latest vulnerabilities in order to detect any attacks. To
Modified Zyklon and plugins from India
Introduction Streams of malicious emails Talos inspects every day usually consist of active spamming campaigns for various ransomware families, phishing campaigns and the common malware family suspects such as banking Trojans and bots.. It is however often more interesting to ana
Cisco Coverage for Adylkuzz, Uiwix, and EternalRocks
When the WannaCry attack was launched a little over a week ago, it was one of the first large scale attacks leveraging the data that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers. At the time the real concern was how quickly we would begin to see other threats leverage the same vulnerabilitie
Terror Evolved: Exploit Kit Matures
Beers with Talos Podcast Now Available
The first episodes of Beers with Talos are now available on iTunes and directly on talosintelligence.com/podcasts. When Talos decided to make a threat intelligence podcast, we wanted to make it different than your typical buttoned down, subdued security podcast. The BWT crew: Cr