Introducing Cisco Talos Incident Response: Stories from the Field

By Jon Munshaw. As another way of bringing our boots-on-the-ground intelligence to defenders, customers and users, we are introducing a new video series called "Cisco Talos Incident Response: Stories from the Field." In each entry, a CTIR team member will cover one specific incident or lesson tha...

Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 6, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. There’s never been a better time to be into cyber security podcasts. Our Podcasts page on TalosIntelligence.com got a facelift this week...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Denial-of-service, information leak bugs in Mini-SNMPD

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Mini-SNMPD, a lightweight implementation of a Simple Network Management Protocol server. An attacker can exploit these bugs by providing a specially crafted SNMPD request to...

Talos Takes back with new episode, feed

By Jon Munshaw. Talos Takes, our new bite-size podcast, is back with its own feed and a new show. We first unveiled Talos Takes in early December, and took some time to develop a new Talos Podcasts page to accommodate Talos Takes and Beers with Talos. Now you have two Talos shows you can subscrib...

Beers with Talos Ep. #71: I Have the Power(Shell)

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 71 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Jan. 17, 2020 PowerShell is a frequent flyer in security headlines — a powerful and oft-wielded tool for attacke...

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 30, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Be sure to pay close attention Tuesday for some changes we have coming to Snort.org. We’ll spare you the details for now, but please bea...

Debian DSA-4610-1 : webkit2gtk - security update

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the webkit2gtk web engine : - CVE-2019-8835 An anonymous researcher discovered that maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. - CVE-2019-8844 William Bowling discovered that maliciously crafted web content may lead ...

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 23, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Despite tensions starting to fizzle between the U.S. and Iran, people are still worried about cyber conflict. What would that even look...

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 16, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. This wasn’t your average Patch Tuesday. Microsoft’s monthly security update was notable for a few reasons. For starters, it’s really tim...

Vivin Nets Thousands of Dollars Using Cryptomining Malware

A recently uncovered threat actor, dubbed Vivin, has made thousands of U.S. dollars through a large-scale cryptomining campaign. Vivin is unique due to its longevity — the threat actor has been active since at least 2017 — and researchers with Cisco Talos point to Vivin as a good example of why...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Bitdefender BOX 2 bootstrap remote code execution vulnerabilities

Claudio Bozzato, Lilith Wyatt and Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. The Bitdefender BOX 2 contains two remote code execution vulnerabilities in its bootstrap stage. The BOX 2 is a device that protects users’ home networks from a variety of threats...

JhoneRAT: Cloud based python RAT targeting Middle Eastern countries

By Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura with contributions from Eric Kuhla. Updated January 17th: the documents do not exploit the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. Executive Summary Today, Cisco Talos is unveiling the details of a new RAT we have identified we're calling "JhoneRAT." This...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Jan. 2020: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

By Jon Munshaw. Updated January 15th: Added an Advanced Custom Detection ACD signature for AMP that can be used to detect exploitation of CVE-2020-0601 by spoofing certificates masquerading as a Microsoft ECC Code Signing Certificate Authority. Microsoft released its monthly security update today...

Beers with Talos Ep. #70: Semper Vigilantes - Strategic Defense in a Cyber Conflict

By Mitch Neff. Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 70 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Jan. 6, 2020 There is a looming cyber conflict on the horizon between the U.S. and Iran. We use a...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in Foxit PDF Reader

Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered four remote code execution vulnerabilities in Foxit PDF Reader. Foxit PDF Reader is a popular program for reading and editing PDFs. The software supports JavaScript to allow fo...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenCV

Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the OpenCV libraries. An attacker could potentially exploit these bugs to cause heap corruptions and potentially code execution. Intel Research originally develope...

Beers with Talos Ep. #68: Takes from Talos on IoT (and the NEW “Talos Takes” podcast!)

By Mitch Neff. Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 68 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Dec. 9, 2019 We have a big announcement to make today! Check your feed for a few episodes of a ne...

Threat Source newsletter (Dec. 19, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We have an early holiday present for you! This week, we introduced a new podcast to the Talos family. Talos Takes, a new short-form show...

New Talos Takes podcast puts Talos' spin on the latest cyber news

By Jon Munshaw. Today, Cisco Talos' podcast network is growing with a new show. Talos Takes is a new podcast that provides Talos analysts' and researchers' opinions and expertise on the hottest topics in cyber security. The first three episodes of the show — covering holiday shopping scams,...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in WAGO PFC200

Kelly Leuschner of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. The WAGO PFC200 and PFC100 controllers contain multiple exploitable vulnerabilities. The PFC200 is one of WAGO’s programmable automation controllers that are used in many industries including automotive, rail,...