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February 23, 2022 11:58

Vulnerability Spotlight: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Accusoft ImageGear could lead to code execution

Francesco Benvenuto and Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos and another team member discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Accusoft ImageGear. The ImageGear library is a document-imaging developer toolkit that allows users to c

February 22, 2022 08:00

Time to secure hybrid work for 2022, not 2002

Editor’s note: This post is the first in a new series from Talos looking at high-level topics across the cybersecurity space. Our researchers rely on years of expertise, data, and tremendous visibility; applying what we can learn from history, research, and analysis to nascent se

February 18, 2022 17:33

Threat Roundup for February 11 to February 18

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 11 and Feb. 18. 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 k

February 16, 2022 14:09

Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerability in Hancom Office could lead to memory corruption, code execution

Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered a vulnerability in Hancom Office — a popular software suite in South Korea — that could allow an attacker to corrupt memory on the targeted machine or execute remote code. Han

February 11, 2022 16:22

Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in Moxa MXView could allow attacker to view sensitive information, bypass login

Patrick DeSantis of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered two vulnerabilities in Moxa's MXview network management software that could allow an attacker to view sensitive data or bypass the need to log into the device. MXview is design

February 11, 2022 14:28

Threat Roundup for February 4 to February 11

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 4 and Feb. 11. 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 ke

February 11, 2022 12:07

Beers with Talos, Ep. #116: Let's wade into the MuddyWater filled with Vipers

Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast episode No. 116 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: * Apple Podcasts * Google Podcasts * Spotify * Stitcher Recorded Feb. 4, 2022. If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Most peopl

February 9, 2022 08:05

What’s with the shared VBA code between Transparent Tribe and other threat actors?

Recently, we've been researching several threat actors operating in South Asia: Transparent Tribe, SideCopy, etc., that deploy a range of remote access trojans (RATs). After a hunting session in our malware sample repositories and VirusTotal while looking into these actors, w

February 8, 2022 13:57

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Feb. 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 51 vulnerabilities across its large collection of hardware and software. None of the vulnerabilities disclosed this month are considered “critical,” an extreme rarity for the company’s Patch Tuesdays. Additionall