Martin delves into how threat actors exploit chaos, offering insights from Talos’ 2024 Year in Review on how to fortify defenses against evolving email lures and frequently targeted vulnerabilities, even amidst economic disruption. This article has been indexed from Cisco…
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Unraveling the U.S. toll road smishing scams
Cisco Talos has observed a widespread and ongoing financial theft SMS phishing (smishing) campaign since October 2024 that targets toll road users in the United States of America. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for April of 2025 which includes 126 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 11 that Microsoft has marked as “critical”. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original…
Year in Review: Key vulnerabilities, tools, and shifts in attacker email tactics
From Talos’ 2024 Year in Review, here are some findings from the top targeted network device vulnerabilities. We also explore how threat actors are moving away from time sensitive lures in their emails. And finally we reveal the tools that…
Year in Review: In conversation with the report’s authors
Want to know the most notable findings in Talos’ Year in Review directly from our report’s authors? Watch our two part video series. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original article: Year in Review: In…
One mighty fine-looking report
Hazel highlights the key findings within Cisco Talos’ 2024 Year in Review (now available for download) and details our active tracking of an ongoing campaign targeting users in Ukraine with malicious LNK files. This article has been indexed from Cisco…
Available now: 2024 Year in Review
Download Talos’ 2024 Year in Review now, and access key insights on the top targeted vulnerabilities of the year, network-based attacks, email threats, adversary toolsets, identity attacks, multi-factor authentication (MFA) abuse, ransomware and AI-based attacks. This article has been indexed…
Beers with Talos: Year in Review episode
In this podcast, Joe, Hazel, Bill and Dave break down Talos’ Year in Review 2024 and discuss how and why cybercriminals have been leaning so heavily on attacks that are routed in stealth in simplicity. This article has been indexed…
Beers with Talos: Year in Review episode
In this podcast, Joe, Hazel, Bill and Dave break down Talos’ Year in Review 2024 and discuss how and why cybercriminals have been leaning so heavily on attacks that are routed in stealth in simplicity. This article has been indexed…
Available now: 2024 Year in Review
Download Talos’ 2024 Year in Review now, and access key insights on the top targeted vulnerabilities of the year, network-based attacks, email threats, adversary toolsets, identity attacks, multi-factor authentication (MFA) abuse, ransomware and AI-based attacks. This article has been indexed…
Gamaredon campaign abuses LNK files to distribute Remcos backdoor
Cisco Talos is actively tracking an ongoing campaign, targeting users in Ukraine with malicious LNK files which run a PowerShell downloader since at least November 2024. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original article: Gamaredon…
Money Laundering 101, and why Joe is worried
In this blog post, Joe covers the very basics of money laundering, how it facilitates ransomware cartels, and what the regulatory future holds for cybercrime. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original article: Money Laundering…
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow: Information security and the Baseball Hall of Fame
In this week’s Threat Source newsletter, William pitches a fun comparison between baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki and the unsung heroes of information security, highlights newly released UAT-5918 research, and shares an exciting new Talos video. This article has been indexed…
UAT-5918 targets critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan
UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft, uses a combination of web shells and open-sourced tooling to conduct post-compromise activities to establish persistence in victim environments for information theft and credential harvesting.…
Miniaudio and Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerabilities
Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed a Miniaudio and three Adobe vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulnerability disclosure policy. For Snort…
Patch it up: Old vulnerabilities are everyone’s problems
Thorsten picks apart some headlines, highlights Talos’ report on an unknown attacker predominantly targeting Japan, and asks, “Where is the victim, and does it matter?” This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original article: Patch it…
Abusing with style: Leveraging cascading style sheets for evasion and tracking
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are ever present in modern day web browsing, however its far from their own use. This blog will detail the ways adversaries use CSS in email campaigns for evasion and tracking. This article has been indexed…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for March of 2025 which includes 57 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 6 that Microsoft marked as “critical”. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original article:…
Who is Responsible and Does it Matter?
Martin Lee dives into to the complexities of defending our customers from threat actors and covers the latest Talos research in this week’s newsletter. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original article: Who is Responsible…
Unmasking the new persistent attacks on Japan
Cisco Talos has discovered an active exploitation of CVE-2024-4577 by an attacker in order to gain access to the victim’s machines and carry out post-exploitation activities. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original article: Unmasking…