Proof that incident response is "the ultimate team sport"  By Brad Garnett. Introduction  As a seasoned incident responder, and now IR business leader here at Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR), I have always said that incident response is the ultimate team sport. People are...

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 7 and May 14. 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 behavioral characteristics,...

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By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. It seemed like everyone on security Twitter had a joke when we disclosed a vulnerability in a WiFi-connected air fryer....

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  Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers.   In case you missed the Friday news drop last week, we have an update on the Lemon Duck cryptocurrency miner. It's not as eye-catching as the ransomware attacks that make the news, but Lemon Duck's...

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By Asheer Malhotra, Justin Thattil and Kendall McKay. Transparent Tribe, also known as APT36 and Mythic Leopard, continues to create fake domains mimicking legitimate military and defense organizations as a core component of their operations. Cisco Talos' previous research has mainly linked this...

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Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader.   Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the most popular and feature-rich PDF readers on the market....

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By Jon Munshaw, with contributions from Chris Neal.  Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 55 vulnerabilities across its suite of products, the fewest in any month since January 2020.  There are only three critical vulnerabilities patched in this month, while...

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By Caitlin Huey and Andrew Windsor with contributions from Edmund Brumaghin. Lemon Duck continues to refine and improve upon their tactics, techniques and procedures as they attempt to maximize the effectiveness of their campaigns.Lemon Duck remains relevant as the operators begin to target...

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 30 and May 7. 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 behavioral characteristics,...

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By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. The internet celebrated World Password Day on Thursday. To celebrate, we had Dave Lewis on the latest episode of Talos...

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 Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers.   COVID-19 has changed everything about our lives — no surprise there. So it also shouldn't be shocking that it's changing the way Americans view Tax Day this year. The deadline to file taxes is about a month later...

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Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Foxit PDF Reader.   Foxit PDF Reader is one of the most popular PDF document readers currently available. As a complete...

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 23 and April 30. 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 behavioral...

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By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. We see tax scams every year — people offering to do your taxes for you, finding a larger return, etc.  But this...

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 Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers.   Ransomware is not just financial extortion. It is crime that transcends business, academic and geographic boundaries. Talos was proud to assist with a newly released report from the international Ransomware Task...

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Lilith >_> and Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux Kernel.   The Linux Kernel is the free and open-source core of Unix-like operating systems....

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 16 and April 23. 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 behavioral...

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  By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. With more workers than ever going remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the popularity of collaboration apps like...

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Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers.   We went viral this week! Everyone seemed to love to joke about these vulnerabilities we discovered in a WiFi-connected air fryer. An attacker, if they had physical access to the device, could exploit these...

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