Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 21, 2021)

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... This is only the...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Code execution vulnerabilities in Nitro Pro PDF

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... This i...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Vulnerabilities in Anker Eufy Homebase could lead to code execution, buffer overflows

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... This is only the...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 26, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. We have RATs on RATs on RATs over the past few weeks. And last week, we found a few more heading to Latin America to target users and try to steal their login credentials. The threat actor in this case has some compelling... This i...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 19, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. I'm writing this on Tuesday morning on account of vacation again, so apologies if we miss any major stories. You certainly don't want to miss our latest blog post on the Neurevt remote access trojan that's... This is only the...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in GPAC Project on Advanced Content

A Cisco Talos team member discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in the GPAC Project on Advanced Content that could lead to memory corruption. The GPAC Project on Advanced Content is an open-source... This i...

Threat Source newsletter (July 22, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. I'm compiling this Tuesday for vacation reasons, so apologies for any major stories I'm missing here. This week's Beers with Talos podcast hits the seas again. And although we've covered sea shanties in the past, this... This is on...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Advantech R-SeeNet

The Talos vulnerability research team discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Advantech R-SeeNet monitoring software. R-SeeNet is the software system used for monitoring Advantech routers. It continuously... This is on...

Threat Source newsletter (July 8, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. Just like everyone else in the security world, our week's been dominated by the Kaseya supply chain attack. We went live on pretty much every social media platform we could think of yesterday to update everyone on the... This is on...

Threat Source newsletter (June 3, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. If you didn't catch us live yesterday, we've uploaded the full version of our stream on Discord and Slack malware to our YouTube page. Chris Neal from Talos Outreach walked through his recent research into these campaigns... This i...

Threat Source newsletter (May 27, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We're used to referring to attackers as either APTs or not APTs. And when something is an APT, it sounds a lot scarier and sexier. But it's our belief that that isn't going to cut it anymore. Therefore, we propose in a... This is...

Threat Source Newsletter (April 22, 2021)

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... This is only the...

Threat Source Newsletter (April 15, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. If you missed our webinar last week, we've got you covered. We've uploaded an extended version to our YouTube page that includes the scripts used in the presentation. This video will show you how to reverse-engineer and... This is...

Talos Takes Ep. #48: The complete history of ObliqueRAT

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. After researching and writing about ObliqueRAT for several months now, Asheer Malhotra joins Talos Takes for... This is on...

Talos Takes Ep. #47: Looking back at the Masslogger trojan

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 return to our usual formatting this week to discuss the Masslogger trojan. We covered this threat earlier this year...

Threat Source Newsletter (April 1, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We hope you’re enjoying Cisco Live this week and only reading this after you’ve caught up on your sessions for the day. No April Fool’s jokes here thankfully — we are just excited to tell you that applications... This is only the...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in Accusoft ImageGear

Emmanuel Tacheau of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in Accusoft ImageGear that an adversary could exploit to corrupt memory on the targeted machine. The ImageGear library is a... This i...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Memory corruption vulnerability in Accusoft ImageGear

Emmanuel Tacheau discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Accusoft ImageGear contains a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to corrupt the software's memory, potentially allowing them to execute arbitrary code on the victim machine. The ImageGear library is a document-imaging...

Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 25, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We all think of APTs as these wide-reaching, silent threat groups who are backed by a nation-state. But our recent research into Gamaredon shows that not all APTs are created equal. We’ve spotted this actor carrying out several...

Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 18, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. Whether you want to read Talos’ research or listen to it, we’ve got plenty of options for you this week. Beers with Talos hit its 100th episode last week. To celebrate, we brought Nigel back out of retirement to update us on the...