NSCAM: Tips from Talos for End-Users
As groups around the world continue the conversation around cybersecurity – we’re at the midway point of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (#NCSAM) in the U.S. and European Cyber Security...
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LockyDump – All Your Configs Are Belong To Us
Locky has continued to evolve since its inception in February 2016. This has made it difficult to track at times due to changes in the way in which it’s distributed as well as various characteristics of the malware itself.
Vulnerability Spotlight: OpenJPEG JPEG2000 mcc record Code Execution Vulnerability
Vulnerability discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Overview Talos has identified an exploitable out-of-bounds vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 image file format parser implemented in OpenJPEG library (TALOS-2016-0193/CVE-2016-8332). The JPEG
Talos ShadowGate Take Down: Global Malvertising Campaign Thwarted
Yet another example of how organizations work together to stop threats affecting users around the globe.
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple DOS Vulnerabilities Within Kaspersky Internet Security Suite
Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Kaspersky’s Internet Security product which can be used by an attacker to cause a local denial of service attack or to leak memory from any machine running Kaspersky Internet Security software. The
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Within Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters.
Vulnerabilities discovered by Tyler Bohan & Marcin Noga of Cisco Talos. Talos are today releasing three new vulnerabilities discovered within the Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters library. TALOS-2016-0172, TALOS-2016-0173 and TALOS-2016-0183
Macro Intruders: Sneaking Past Office Defenses
Macros have been used since the mid 1990s to spread malware and infect systems. Increased user awareness of the need to disable the macro function within Microsoft Word during the late 90s and early 2000s sent these malware into decline. However, a
The Official Talos Guide to Black Hat 2016
There is always something of an air of anticipation in the Security community as we approach Black Hat and DEFCON. This is your official guide to what Cisco’s Talos Threat Intelligence team is doing at Black Hat 2016. There are a lot of classes
Vulnerability Spotlight: Oracle’s Outside In Technology, Turned Inside-Out
Vulnerabilities discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic. Blog post authored by Jaeson Schultz and Aleksandar Nikolic. One of the most fundamental tasks performed by many software programs involves the reading, writing, and general processing of files. In