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February 27, 2017 16:42

Cisco Coverage for Smart Install Client Protocol Abuse

Summary Talos has become aware of active scanning against customer infrastructure with the intent of finding Cisco Smart Install clients. Cisco Smart Install is one component of the Cisco Smart Operations solution that facilitates the management of LAN switches. Research has ind

February 27, 2017 12:59

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in Iceni Argus PDF Content Extraction affect MarkLogic

Vulnerability discovered by Marcin ’Icewall’ Noga and a member of the Talos VulnDev team. Overview Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Iceni Argus PDF content extraction product. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to gain full control over the v

February 24, 2017 12:42

Vulnerability Deep Dive - Ichitaro Office Excel File Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability was discovered by Cory Duplantis and another member of Cisco Talos Overview Vulnerabilities in word processing and office productivity suites are useful targets for exploitation by threat actors. Users frequently encounter file types used by these software s

February 24, 2017 10:06

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Ichitaro Office Vulnerabilities

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Cory Duplantis and another member of Cisco Talos Talos has discovered three vulnerabilities within the Ichitaro Office suite. Ichitaro is published by JustSystems and is considered one of the more popular word processors used within Japan

February 23, 2017 10:00

Korean MalDoc Drops Evil New Years Presents

This blog was authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Executive Summary Talos has investigated a targeted malware campaign against South Korean users. The campaign was active between November 2016 and January 2017, targeting a limited number of people. The infection ve

February 21, 2017 11:22

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Vulnerabilities in the Aerospike NoSQL Database Server

Vulnerabilities discovered by Talos Talos is releasing multiple vulnerabilities discovered in the Aerospike Database Server. These vulnerabilities range from Denial of Service to potential remote code execution. This software is used by various companies that require a high perf

February 16, 2017 20:22

Cisco Coverage for 'Magic Hound'

'Magic Hound' is the code name used to reference a seemingly limited series of malware distribution campaigns that were observed targeting organizations in Saudi Arabia as well as organizations with business interests in Saudi Arabia. Similar to other malware distribution

February 14, 2017 14:31

Vulnerability Spotlight: Apple Garage Band Out of Bounds Write Vulnerability

Discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos Overview Talos is disclosing TALOS-2016-0262 (CVE-2017-2372) and TALOS-2017-0275  (CVE-2017-2374), an out of bounds write vulnerability in Apple GarageBand. GarageBand is a music creation program, allowing users to create and edit music

February 9, 2017 20:04

Cisco Coverage for 'Ticketbleed'

Vulnerability Details A vulnerability (CVE-2016-9244) was recently disclosed affecting various F5 products due to the way in which the products handle Session IDs when the non-default Session Tickets option is enabled. By manipulating the Session IDs provided to affected products