Researcher Spotlight: Martin Lee, EMEAR lead, Talos Strategic Communications
Who knew you could connect Moses to threat intelligence? When the security community usually thinks about the origins of cybersecurity and threat intelligence, the conversation may quickly center around the codebreakers in World War II or the Creeper software developed in the 19
Threat Roundup for May 20 to May 27
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 20 and May 27. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key
Threat Source newsletter (May 26, 2022) — BlackByte adds itself to the grocery list of big game hunters
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Given the recent tragedies in the U.S., I don’t feel it’s appropriate to open by being nostalgic or trying to be witty — let’s just stick to some security news this week. The one big thing The BlackByte ransomwar
Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in Open Automation Software Platform could lead to information disclosure, denial of service
Jared Rittle of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered eight vulnerabilities in the Open Automation Software Platform that could allow an adversary to carry out a variety of malicious actions, including improperly authenticating into the ta
Threat Roundup for May 13 to May 20
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 13 and May 20. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key
Threat Source newsletter (May 19, 2022) — Why I'm missing the days of iPods and LimeWire
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I will openly admit that I still own a “classic” iPod — the giant brick that weighed down my skinny jeans in high school and did nothing except play music. There are dozens of hours of music on there that I always t
The BlackByte ransomware group is striking users all over the globe
News summary * Cisco Talos has been monitoring the BlackByte Ransomware Group for several months, infecting victims all over the world, from North America to Colombia, Netherlands, China, Mexico and Vietnam. * The FBI released a joint cybersecurity advisory in February 2022 wa
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in NVIDIA GPU driver
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered four vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA D3D10 driver for graphics cards that could allow an attacker to corrupt memory and write arbitrary memory on the card. NVIDIA graphics drivers are sof
Ransomware: How executives should prepare given the current threat landscape
By Nate Pors. Top executives are increasingly dreading the phone call from their fellow employees notifying them that their company has been hit by a cyber attack. Nearly every week in 2021 and early 2022, a prominent organization has been in the media spotlight as their public