By Edmund Brumaghin, Mariano Graziano and Nick Mavis. Executive summary Recently, a new threat, referred to as "SQUIRRELWAFFLE" is being spread more widely via spam campaigns, infecting systems with a new malware loader. This is a malware family that's been spread with increasing regularity and...

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 15 and Oct. 22. 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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 Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers.   We're writing this on Wednesday for PTO reasons, so apologies if we miss any major news that happens after Wednesday afternoon.  Above, you can watch our awesome live stream from Monday with Brad Garnett from...

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Cisco Talos recently discovered a threat actor using political and government-themed malicious domains to target entities in India and Afghanistan.These attacks use dcRAT and QuasarRAT for Windows delivered via malicious documents exploiting CVE-2017-11882 — a memory corruption vulnerability in...

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Beers with Talos (BWT) Podcast episode No. 110 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify  StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. We mainly spend this episode doing some catching up...

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Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the ZTE MF971R LTE portable router.  The MF971R is a portable router with Wi-Fi support and works as an LTE/GSM modem. An attacker could...

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 8 and Oct. 15. 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. Most people may think of spam as being the classic email promising that you've won the lottery or some great prize,...

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Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers.   It's still Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and what better way to celebrate by patching and then patching some more?  This week was Microsoft Patch Tuesday, which only included two critical vulnerabilities, but still...

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A Cisco Talos team member discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Nitro Pro PDF reader that could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the application.  Nitro Pro PDF is part of Nitro Software’s...

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Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the ConditionalFormatting functionality of Microsoft Office Excel 2019 that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the...

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By Jon Munshaw, with contributions from Asheer Malhotra.  Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 78 vulnerabilities in the company’s various software, hardware and firmware offerings.   This month’s release is particularly notable because there are only...

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Lilith >_> of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered two vulnerabilities in the Anker Eufy Homebase.  The Eufy Homebase 2 is the video storage and networking gateway that works with Anker’s Eufy Smarthome ecosystem. All Eufy...

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 1 and Oct. 8. 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. We are from the first (or last) people to say this, but 2021 is the year of ransomware. It’s by far the biggest story...

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A recently discovered vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server (CVE-2021-41733) is being actively exploited in the wild. This vulnerability is a path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability that could allow an attacker to map URLs outside of the document root. It could also result in the exposure...

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Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers.   Every day, we see mountains and mountains of data. So how do we comb through all of it to find out what's important to customers and users? Well, there are many ways, but we wanted to give readers and researchers a look...

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By Tiago Pereira. Security tools can produce very large amounts of data that even the most sophisticated organizations may struggle to manage. Big data processing tools, such as spark, can be a powerful tool in the arsenal of security teams.This post walks through threat hunting on large datasets...

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Sept. 24 and Oct. 1. 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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