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Vulnerabilities discovered by Talos Talos is releasing multiple vulnerabilities discovered in the Aerospike Database Server. These vulnerabilities range from Denial of Service to potential remote code execution. This software is used by various companies that require a high performance NoSQL database. These issues have been addressed in version 3.11.1.1 of the Aerospike Database software.  The […]

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‘Magic Hound’ is the code name used to reference a seemingly limited series of malware distribution campaigns that were observed targeting organizations in Saudi Arabia as well as organizations with business interests in Saudi Arabia. Similar to other malware distribution campaigns that Talos has observed and documented, this series of campaigns made use of phishing […]

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Discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos Overview Talos is disclosing TALOS-2016-0262  (CVE-2017-2372) and TALOS-2017-0275  (CVE-2017-2374), an out of bounds write vulnerability in Apple GarageBand. GarageBand is a music creation program, allowing users to create and edit music easily and effectively from their Mac computer. GarageBand is installed by default on all Mac computers so […]

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Vulnerability Details A vulnerability (CVE-2016-9244) was recently disclosed affecting various F5 products due to the way in which the products handle Session IDs when the non-default Session Tickets option is enabled. By manipulating the Session IDs provided to affected products, an attacker could potentially leak up to 31 bytes of uninitialized memory. This vulnerability can […]

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This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin with contributions from Angel Villegas Summary Talos is constantly monitoring the threat landscape in an effort to identify changes in the way attackers are attempting to target organizations around the world. We identified a unique malware campaign that was distributed via malicious Word documents. The campaign appeared to […]

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This blog was authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Talos has observed a small email campaign leveraging the use of Microsoft Publisher files. These .pub files are normally used for the publishing of documents such as newsletters, allowing users to create such documents using familiar office functions such as mail merging. Unlike other applications […]

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Shamoon is a type of destructive malware that has been previously associated with attacks against the Saudi Arabian energy sector we’ve been tracking since 2012. We’ve observed that a variant of Shamoon, identified as Shamoon 2, has recently been used against several compromised organizations and institutions. Talos is aware of the recent increase in Shamoon […]

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The few last days, a malware sample named EyePyramid has received considerable attention, especially in Italy. The Italian police have arrested two suspects and also published a preliminary report of the investigation. This malware is notable due to the targeting of Italian celebrities and politicians. We conducted our analysis on one of the first public […]

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This post authored by David Maynor & Paul Rascagneres with the contribution of Alex McDonnell and Matthew Molyett Overview Talos has identified a malicious Microsoft Word document with several unusual features and an advanced workflow, performing reconnaissance on the targeted system to avoid sandbox detection and virtual analysis, as well as exploitation from a non-embedded […]