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Vulnerability Spotlight: Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters

Discovered by Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga of Cisco Talos. Talos are today releasing a new vulnerability discovered within the Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters library. TALOS-2017-0302 allows for information disclosure using specifically crafted files. Overview The vulnerability is present in the Lexmark Document filter parsing engine which is used across a wide range of services such as […]

April 18, 2017 • 1 min read
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Cisco Coverage for Shadow Brokers 2017-04-14 Information Release

On Friday, April 14, the actor group identifying itself as the Shadow Brokers released new information containing exploits for vulnerabilities that affect various versions of Microsoft Windows as well as applications such as Lotus Domino. Additionally, the release included previously unknown tools, including an exploitation framework identified as “FUZZBUNCH.” Preliminary analysis of the information suggested […]

April 15, 2017 • 1 min read
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Threat Round-up for Apr 7 – Apr 14

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between April 7 and April 14. As with previous round-ups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics, indicators of compromise, and how our customers are automatically […]

April 14, 2017 • 1 min read
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Cisco Coverage for CVE-2017-0199

Over the past week, information regarding a serious zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2017-0199) in Microsoft Office was publically disclosed. Since learning of this flaw, Talos has been actively investigating the issue. Preliminary reports indicated that this vulnerability was actively being exploited in the wild and used to compromise hosts with Dridex, a well-known banking trojan. On Tuesday, […]

April 14, 2017 • 1 min read
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Threat Round-up for Mar 31 – Apr 7

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between March 31 and April 7. As with previous round-ups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics, indicators of compromise, and how our customers are automatically […]

April 7, 2017 • 1 min read
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Hacking the Belkin E Series OmniView 2-Port KVM Switch

Author: Ian Payton, Security Advisory EMEAR Introduction Too frequently security professionals only consider software vulnerabilities when considering the risks of connecting devices to their networks and systems. When it comes to considering potential risks of connected devices and the Internet of Things, not only must security professionals consider potential vulnerabilities in the software and firmware […]

April 6, 2017 • 1 min read
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Introducing ROKRAT

This blog was authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres with contributions from Matthew Molyett. Executive Summary A few weeks ago, Talos published research on a Korean MalDoc. As we previously discussed this actor is quick to cover their tracks and very quickly cleaned up their compromised hosts. We believe the compromised infrastructure was live […]

April 3, 2017 • 1 min read