Threat Round up for December 2 to December 9

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Dec. 2 and Dec. 9. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

2022 Year in Review Livestream

Did you miss our livestream focused on the Ukraine topics presented in the Cisco Talos Year in Review report? Join host Hazel Burton and special guests Kendall McKay, Nick Randolph, and Vanja Svajcer as they discuss Talos now-years-long critical infrastructure effort in Ukraine. Their breifing...

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Memory corruption vulnerability discovered in PowerISO

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Cisco Talos recently discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in PowerISO. TALOS-2022-1644 CVE-2022-41992 is a memory corruption vulnerability that exists in the VHD File Format parsing functionality of PowerISO 8.3. A specially crafte...

Vulnerability Spotlight: NVIDIA driver memory corruption vulnerabilities discovered

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered two memory corruption vulnerabilities in shader functionality of an NVIDIA driver. NVIDIA Graphics drivers are software for NVIDIA Graphics GPU installed on the PC. They are used to communicate between th...

NVIDIA D3D10 Driver Shader Functionality MOV instruction memory corruption vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2022-1603 NVIDIA D3D10 Driver Shader Functionality MOV instruction memory corruption vulnerability December 6, 2022 CVE Number CVE-2022-34671 SUMMARY A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Shader Functionality MOV instruction index functionality of NVIDIA...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Lansweeper directory traversal and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered several directory traversal and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Lansweeper. Lansweeper is an IT Asset Management solution that gathers hardware and software information of computers and...

Researcher Spotlight: How working for Talos started out as an ‘accident’ for Ashlee Benge before coming a second career

Talos lead of data strategy and insights has a lot of weight on her shoulders currently, but its nothing shes not used to Most people who first meet Ashlee Benge do a double take when they hear about her past experience. The average security practitioner at a networking event may share that they...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Callback Technologies CBFS Filter denial-of-service vulnerabilities

Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered three denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Callback Technologies CBFS Filter. Callback Technologies has a CBFS file storage solution for use in customizing data persistence on devices. To accompany...

Notorious Emotet Malware Returns With High-Volume Malspam Campaign

The notorious Emotet malware has returned with renewed vigor as part of a high-volume malspam campaign designed to drop payloads like IcedID and Bumblebee. "Hundreds of thousands of emails per day" have been sent since early November 2022, enterprise security company Proofpoint said last week,...

LodaRAT Malware Resurfaces with New Variants Employing Updated Functionalities

The LodaRAT malware has resurfaced with new variants that are being deployed in conjunction with other sophisticated malware, such as RedLine Stealer and Neshta. "The ease of access to its source code makes LodaRAT an attractive tool for any threat actor who is interested in its capabilities,"...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Microsoft Office class attribute double-free vulnerability

Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered a class attribute double-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office is a suite of tools used for productivity in both a corporate environment as well as by end-users. It offers a ran...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader could lead to arbitrary code execution

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered several use-after-free vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader that could lead to arbitrary code execution. The Foxit Reader is one of the most popular PDF document readers, which aims to have feature pari...

CVE-2022-25932

The firmware of InHand Networks InRouter302 V3.5.45 introduces fixes for TALOS-2022-1472 and TALOS-2022-1474. The fixes are incomplete. An attacker can still perform, respectively, a privilege escalation and an information disclosure vulnerability...

Several Cyber Attacks Observed Leveraging IPFS Decentralized Network

A number of phishing campaigns are leveraging the decentralized InterPlanetary Filesystem IPFS network to host malware, phishing kit infrastructure, and facilitate other attacks. "Multiple malware families are currently being hosted within IPFS and retrieved during the initial stages of malware...

Threat Roundup for October 28 to November 4

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Oct. 28 and Nov. 4. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees

The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a new campaign aimed at Indian government organizations with trojanized versions of a two-factor authentication solution called Kavach. "This group abuses Google advertisements for the purpose of malvertising to distribute backdoored versions ...

Threat Advisory: High Severity OpenSSL Vulnerabilities

In late October two new buffer overflow vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, were announced in OpenSSL versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.6. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by sending an X.509 certificate with a specially crafted email address, potentially causing a buffer overflow resulti...

Researcher Spotlight: How Azim Khodjibaev went from hunting real-world threats to threats on the dark web

A case study in why cybersecurity experience is not a prerequisite to work in security Azim Khodjibaev knows all sides of the "security" industry. That doesnt just cover cybersecurity, either -- he spent the first part of his career ensuring the physical safety of civilians and military personnel...

See Yourself in Cyber: A Cybersecurity Awareness Month recap

As yet another October comes to an end, so does another Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Since 2004 when the President of the United States and Congress declared October Cybersecurity Awareness Month, weve taken the time to share our cybersecurity knowledge with the broader general public year afte...