Vulnerability Spotlight: Local Denial of Service Bug in NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Drivers Fixed

Bugs are inevitable in complex systems and software. Operating systems and device drivers are prime examples where layers of abstraction help hide complexity and allow hardware and software to communicate. Thus, when bugs are identified that could compromise, disrupt, or bring sy

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - December 2016

The final patch Tuesday of 2016 has arrived. Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month's release contains 12 bulletins addressing 48 vulnerabilities. Six bulletins are r

Vulnerability Spotlight: Joyent SmartOS

Vulnerability discovered by Tyler Bohan Overview Talos is disclosing a series of vulnerabilities in Joyent SmartOS, specifically in the Hyprlofs filesystem. SmartOS is an open source hypervisor that is based on a branch of Opensolaris. Hyperlofs is a SmartOS in-memory filesyst

Floki Bot Strikes, Talos and Flashpoint Respond

This blog post was authored by Ben Baker, Edmund Brumaghin, Mariano Graziano, and Jonas Zaddach Executive Summary Floki Bot is a new malware variant that has recently been offered for sale on various darknet markets. It is based on the same codebase that was used by the infamo

Vulnerability Spotlight: ImageMagick Convert Tiff Out of Bounds Write

Vulnerability discovered by Tyler Bohan Overview Talos is disclosing TALOS-2016-0216 / CVE-2016-8707, an out of bounds write vulnerability in ImageMagick. ImageMagick is a photo editing software program that allows users to edit and manipulate various types of image files. This

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Cerber Spam: Tor All the Things!

This post authored by Nick Biasini and Edmund Brumaghin with contributions from Sean Baird and Andrew Windsor. Executive Summary Talos is continuously analyzing email based malware always looking at how adversaries change and the new techniques that are being added on an almo

Talos Responsible Disclosure Policy Update

Responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities is a key aspect of security research. Often, the difficulty in responsible disclosure is balancing competing interests - assisting a vendor with patching their product and notifying the general public to prevent a 0-day situation. It is u

Fareit Spam: Rocking Out to a New File Type

This post authored by Nick Biasini Talos is constantly monitoring the threat landscape including the email threat landscape. Lately this landscape has been dominated with Locky distribution. During a recent Locky vacation Talos noticed an interesting shift in file types being us