The 2024 Threat Landscape State of Play

As we head into the final furlong of 2024, we caught up with Talos' Head of Outreach Nick Biasini to ask him what sort of year it's been so far in the threat landscape. In this video, Nick outlines his two major areas of concern. He also focusses on one state-sponsored actor that has been...

TimbreStealer Focuses On Mexico With Social Engineering

Summary: Since at least November 2023, there has been a persistent phishing spam campaign targeting potential victims in Mexico. The campaign entices users to download TimbreStealer, a new information stealer that has been disguised. This campaign use financial-themed phishing emails to lure...

TimbreStealer Malware Spreading via Tax-themed Phishing Scam Targets IT Users

Mexican users have been targeted with tax-themed phishing lures at least since November 2023 to distribute a previously undocumented Windows malware called TimbreStealer. Cisco Talos, which discovered the activity, described the authors as skilled and that the "threat actor has previously used...

TimbreStealer campaign targets Mexican users with financial lures

Cisco Talos has discovered a new campaign operated by a threat actor distributing a previously unknown malware were calling "TimbreStealer." This threat actor was observed distributing TimbreStealer via a spam campaign using Mexican tax-related themes starting in at least November 2023. The threa...