Five defender priorities from the Talos Year in Review

A familiar theme in security right now is that the barrier to entry for attackers is at an all-time low. AI tools can spin up websites within minutes that can easily direct data to disposable external data stores and send alerts for new captures -- all without code. One such case was recently...

From the field to the report and back again: How incident responders can use the Year in Review

Every year, Cisco Talos publishes Year in Review, a comprehensive look at the previous year's threat landscape. It's drawn from an enormous volume of telemetry, such as endpoint detections, network traffic, email data, and boots-on-the-ground Cisco Talos Incident Response Talos IR engagements. As...

Year in Review: Vulnerabilities old and new and something React2

Speed and age shouldn't be allowed to pair up, but that is the theme of the Talos 2025 Year in Review vulnerability findings. Figure 1. React/React2Shell 2025 at the top, with PHPUnit 2017 and Log4j 2021 following up. The year was characterized by an unending beat-down on infrastructure that reli...

Do not get high(jacked) off your own supply (chain)

In the span of just a few weeks, we have observed a dizzying array of major supply chain attacks. Prominent examples include the malicious modification of Axios, a popular HTTP client library for JavaScript, as well as cascading compromises from TeamPCP, a "chaos-as-a-service" group that injected...

Inside the Talos 2025 Year in Review: A discussion on what the data means for defenders

Every year, the Cisco Talos Year in Review captures the patterns shaping the threat landscape. The 2025 report paints a clear picture: Attackers are moving faster than ever, while using identity-related attacks as the primary battleground. To unpack the biggest takeaways and what they mean for...

A puppet made me cry and all I got was this t-shirt

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Anyone who spoke with me in the last several weeks has had to deal with me loudly waiting in anticipation for the long-awaited "Project Hail Mary" movie adaptation. I read and cried over the book by Andy Weir, who's also the author o...

Talos Takes: 2025 insights from Talos and Splunk

In this episode of Talos Takes, Amy is joined by William Largent Cisco Talos and Lou Stella Splunk for a "double-header" discussion. With the recent release of the Cisco Talos 2025 Year in Review and the Splunk Top 50 Cybersecurity Threats report, we're breaking down the most critical trends that...

Beers with Talos breaks down the 2025 Talos Year in Review

The Beers with Talos B team that's Hazel, Bill, Joe and Dave break down sometimes in the literal sense the 2025 Talos Year in Review which is available now. The team dives into the biggest cybersecurity trends of the year, including: The rapid weaponization of new vulnerabilities Why identity abu...

You have to invite them in

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I found myself watching the Oscars ceremony in its entirety for the first time in a few years. I'm in the U.K., so I watched it the following day. With next week's Year in Review launch looming and several pieces of content still to...

CVE-2023-25169

discourse-yearly-review is a discourse plugin which publishes an automated Year in Review topic. In affected versions a user present in a yearly review topic that is then anonymised will still have some data linked to its original account. This issue has been patched in commit b3ab33bbf7 which is...

Adios 2025, you won’t be missed

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. For us in America, we're in the holiday doldrums and things slow and/or shut down until the new year. At Cisco, we shut down the last week of the year to reset and recharge, and I've grown to be quite fond of it. I've worked plenty o...

Lexi DiScola’s guide to global teamwork and overflowing TBRs

Welcome back to Humans of Talos. This month, Amy chats with Senior Cyber Threat Analyst Lexi DiScola from the Strategic Analysis team. Lexi's journey into cybersecurity is anything but traditional -- she brings a background in political science and French to her work tracking global cyber threats...

The Year in Review 2025: AI, APIs, and a Whole Lot of Audacity

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Year in Review: In conversation with the report's authors

🎥 Talos Year in Review 2024: Part 1 & 2 - Watch Now! Another year, another mountain of malicious telemetry to sift through. I spoke with a few of Talos' Year in Review authors, freshly out of the sandbox, to discuss the how's and why's of our biggest findings. 👉 Part 1: The major theme of 2024, t...

One mighty fine-looking report

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. They say art is subjective, but have you ever seen a well-formatted bar chart? Van Gogh had Starry Night , but Talos' 2024 Year in Review available now! has color-coded data with perfect labels. True beauty. If you haven't yet had a...

Beers with Talos: Year in Review episode

Joe, Hazel, Bill and Dave break down Talos' Year in Review 2024 and discuss how and why cybercriminals have been leaning so heavily on attacks that are routed in stealth in simplicity. The team also provide insights into some of the topics of the report, including the top-targeted vulnerabilities...

Available now: 2024 Year in Review

Welcome to Cisco Talos' 2024 Year in Review, available for download now. This report is powered by threat telemetry from over 46 million global devices across 193 countries and regions, amounting to more than 886 billion security events per day. Explore key insights in topics including the top...

A personal Year in Review to round out 2023

As youve probably seen by now, Talos released our 2023 Year in Review report last week. Its an extremely comprehensive look at the top threats, attacker trends and malware families from the past year with never-before-seen Cisco Talos telemetry. We have podcasts, long-form videos and even Reddit...

Video: Talos 2023 Year in Review highlights

In this video, experts from across Cisco Talos came together to discuss the 2023 Talos Year in Review. We chat about whats new, whats stayed the same, and how the geopolitical environment has affected the threat landscape. This video was recorded live on social media: Read the 2023 Cisco Talos Ye...

Beers with Talos episode 141: The TurkeyLurkey Man wants YOU to read Talos' Year in Review report

In this episode the Beers with Talos team, led by special guest Dave Liebenberg, set out to save Thanksgiving. The TurkeyLurkey man is the hero that everybody needs, but perhaps dont deserve. For fans and opposers of Daves Ranksgiving list, youll be pleased to know hes back with a whole new order...