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March 22, 2017 12:52

Vulnerability Spotlight: Code Execution Vulnerability in LabVIEW

Vulnerability discovered by Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos. Overview LabVIEW is a system design and development platform released by National Instruments. The software is widely used to create applications for data acquisition, instrument control and industrial automation. Talo

March 20, 2017 17:18

Necurs Diversifies Its Portfolio

The post was authored by Sean Baird, Edmund Brumaghin and Earl Carter, with contributions from Jaeson Schultz. Executive Summary   The Necurs botnet is the largest spam botnet in the world. Over the past year it has been used primarily for the distribution of Locky ransomware

March 17, 2017 17:35

Threat Round-up for the Week of Mar 13 - Mar 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed over the past week. 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 key behav

March 14, 2017 17:26

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - March 2017

Following a sparse February patch Tuesday, today’s March release brings a bumper crop of fixed vulnerabilities: 17 bulletins covering 140 different vulnerabilities, 47 of which are rated as critical. The critical vulnerabilities affect Internet Explorer, Edge, Hyper-V, Windows PD

March 10, 2017 18:49

Threat Round-up for the Week of Mar 6 - Mar 10

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed over the past week. As with our previous threat round-up, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting

March 9, 2017 10:22

Vulnerability Spotlight: R - PDF LoadEncoding Code Execution Vulnerability

Vulnerability Discovered by Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos Overview Talos is disclosing TALOS-2016-0227 / CVE-2016-8714 which is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the LoadEncoding functionality of the R programming language version 3.3.0. The R programming language is commonly

March 8, 2017 16:20

Content-Type: Malicious - New Apache Struts2 0-day Under Attack

UPDATE: It was recently disclosed that in addition to Content-Type being vulnerable, both Content-Disposition and Content-Length can be manipulated to trigger this particular vulnerability. No new CVE was listed, however details of the vulnerability and remediation are available

March 7, 2017 11:06

Vulnerability Spotlight: Pharos Vulnerabilities

Discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos. Talos would also like to thank NYU Osiris Lab for helping out with these vulnerabilities. Pharos PopUp Printer is printing software that is widely used to manage multiple connections to a single printing point. Services that run with roo