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March 26, 2026 14:00

A puppet made me cry and all I got was this t-shirt

In this week's newsletter, Amy draws parallels between the collaborative themes of "Project Hail Mary" and the massive team effort behind the newly released Talos Year in Review report.

March 26, 2026 08:48

Talos Takes: 2025 insights from Talos and Splunk

This episode of Talos Takes breaks down the 2025 Year in Review as well as Splunk's Top 50 Cybersecurity Threats report.

March 23, 2026 08:55

Beers with Talos breaks down the 2025 Talos Year in Review

The Beers with Talos team unpack the biggest cybersecurity threats of 2025, from React2Shell to ransomware and identity abuse, and what it all means for defenders going forward.

March 23, 2026 08:01

2025 Talos Year in Review: Speed, scale, and staying power

The 2025 Talos Year in Review is available now. Understand evolving adversary playbooks and how to strengthen your organization’s defenses.

March 19, 2026 14:00

You have to invite them in

While a garlic and wooden stakes keep the vampires at bay in movies, they won’t save your network once an attacker has been "invited in." Discover why identity is the new frontier of cyber horror in this week’s edition.

March 19, 2026 06:00

Everyday tools, extraordinary crimes: the ransomware exfiltration playbook

Attackers use trusted tools for data theft, making traditional detection unreliable. The Exfiltration Framework enables defenders to spot exfiltration by focusing on behavioral signals across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments rather than static tool indicators.

March 18, 2026 06:00

Transparent COM instrumentation for malware analysis

In this article, Cisco Talos presents DispatchLogger, a new open-source tool that delivers high visibility into late-bound IDispatch COM object interactions via transparent proxy interception.

March 12, 2026 14:00

This one’s for you, Mom

This week, Joe talks about allyship and how being aware of an issue is the first step in helping to fix it.

March 11, 2026 16:26

DirectX, OpenFOAM, Libbiosig vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed vulnerabilities in the BioSig Project Libbiosig library and OpenCFD OpenFOAM, as well as an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft DirectX.