Beers with Talos episode 141: The TurkeyLurkey Man wants YOU to read Talos' Year in Review report
The team recaps the top malware and attacker trends from 2023, and create a new mascot to save Thanksgiving.
The malware, attacker trends and more that shaped the threat landscape in 2023
The second annual Cisco Talos Year in Review draws on a massive amount of threat data to analyze the major trends that shaped the threat landscape in 2023.
Project PowerUp – Helping to keep the lights on in Ukraine in the face of electronic warfare
Project PowerUp is the story of how Cisco Talos worked with a multi-national, multi-company coalition of volunteers and experts to help “keep the lights on” in Ukraine, by injecting a measure of stability in Ukraine’s power transmission grid.
$19 Stanely cups, fake Amazon Prime memberships all part of holiday shopping scams circulating
Fake Facebook ads seem to be the flavor of the month for scammers.
New SugarGh0st RAT targets Uzbekistan government and South Korea
Cisco Talos recently discovered a malicious campaign that likely started as early as August 2023, delivering a new remote access trojan (RAT) we dubbed “SugarGh0st.”
What is threat hunting?
Many organizations are curious about the idea of threat hunting, but what does this really entail? In this video, four experienced security professionals from across Cisco recently sat down to discuss the basics of threat hunting, and how to go about searching for the unknown.
Vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Excel could lead to arbitrary code execution
Adobe recently patched two use-after-free vulnerabilities in its Acrobat PDF reader that Talos discovered, both of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.
A deep dive into Phobos ransomware, recently deployed by 8Base group
Cisco Talos has recently observed an increase in activity conducted by 8Base, a ransomware group that uses a variant of the Phobos ransomware and other publicly available tools to facilitate their operations.
Understanding the Phobos affiliate structure and activity
Cisco Talos identified the most prolific Phobos variants, TTPs and affiliate structure, based on their activity and analysis of over 1,000 samples from VirusTotal dating back to 2019. We assess with moderate confidence Eking, Eight, Elbie, Devos and Faust are the most common variants