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February 6, 2025 06:00

Google Cloud Platform Data Destruction via Cloud Build

A technical overview of Cisco Talos' investigations into Google Cloud Platform Cloud Build, and the threat surface posed by the storage permission family.

January 30, 2025 14:05

Defeating Future Threats Starts Today

Martin discusses how defenders can use threat intelligence to equip themselves against AI-based threats. Plus check out his introductory course to threat intelligence.

January 30, 2025 06:00

Talos IR trends Q4 2024: Web shell usage and exploitation of public-facing applications spike

This new report from Cisco Talos Incident Response explores how threat actors increasingly deployed web shells against vulnerable web applications, and exploited vulnerable or unpatched public-facing applications to gain initial access.

January 29, 2025 11:45

Whatsup Gold, Observium and Offis vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Research team recently disclosed three vulnerabilities in Observium, three vulnerabilities in Offis, and four vulnerabilities in Whatsup Gold.    These vulnerabilities exist in Observium, a network observation and monitoring system; Offis DCMTK, a coll

January 28, 2025 06:00

New TorNet backdoor seen in widespread campaign

Cisco Talos discovered an ongoing malicious campaign operated by a financially motivated threat actor targeting users, predominantly in Poland and Germany.

January 24, 2025 08:37

Seasoning email threats with hidden text salting

Hidden text salting is a simple yet effective technique for bypassing email parsers, confusing spam filters, and evading detection engines that rely on keywords. Cisco Talos has observed an increase in the number of email threats leveraging hidden text salting.

January 23, 2025 14:05

Everything is connected to security

Joe shares his recent experience presenting at the 32nd Crop Insurance Conference and how it's important to stay curious, be a forever student, and keep learning.

January 16, 2025 14:15

Find the helpers

Bill discusses how to find 'the helpers' and the importance of knowledge sharing. Plus, there's a lot to talk about in our latest vulnerability roundup.

January 15, 2025 08:00

Slew of WavLink vulnerabilities

Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities.  Forty-four vulnerabilities and sixty-three CVEs were discovered across ten .cgi and three .sh files, as well as the static login page, of the Wavlink AC3000 wireless router web application.   The Wavlink AC3000