Articles
Explorations in the spam folder–Holiday Edition
We explore spam campaigns during this holiday season, demonstrating what can happen if someone actually clicks on links or open attachments in these unsolicited emails.
ThreatWise TV: Exploring Recent Incident Response Trends
This ThreatWise TV episode, we are examining some of the revelations in the Q3 Cisco Talos Incident Response Trends Report.
Threat Trends: Vulnerabilities
Are the most talked about vulnerabilities the same as those that are most widely used in attacks?
Threat Trends: Firewall
Firewalls are a key component of any perimeter defense —the proverbial guard towers in your fortifications. Here, we examine the top threats encountered by Cisco Secure Firewall, and the Secure IPS component and Snort rules used control and inspect the traffic on the network.
Threat Protection: The REvil Ransomware
We take a look under the hood of the headline-grabbing REvil ransomware, showcasing what the threat looks like and how it goes about locking down a computer.
Threat Explainer: Supply Chain Attacks
In a supply chain attack, bad actors target companies you rely upon to get to your organization. This Threat Explainer blog discusses how to defend against them.
Threat Trends: DNS Security, Part 2
A deep dive into industry-specific threat trends surrounding malicious DNS activity.
Threat Trends: DNS Security, Part 1
An examination of the trends seen in malicious DNS activity during 2020, covering threat categories such as illicit cryptomining, phishing, trojans, ransomware, and others.
RDP and the remote desktop
Does your organization use RDP? In our latest Threat of the Month blog, we examine how bad actors leverage the protocol and what can be done to protect against attacks.