Cognitive Intelligence
DNSChanger Outbreak Linked to Adware Install Base
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[Ed. note: This post was authored by Veronica Valeros, Ross Gibb, Eric Hulse, and Martin Rehak] Late last autumn, the detector described in one...
Malware stealing gigabytes of your data as seen by Cognitive Threat Analytics
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This post is authored by Gayan de Silva and Martin Pospisil. Overview Recently, about 50 users across 20 companies were alarmed by the Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) about...
Angler for Beginners in 34 Seconds
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Post authored by Martin Rehak, Veronica Valeros, Martin Grill and Ivan Nikolaev. In order to complement the comprehensive information about the Angler exploit kit from our Talos colleagues [
Cognitive Research: Fake Blogs Generating Real Money
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Summary In the past several months Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) researchers have observed a number of blog sites using either fake content or content stolen from other sites to...
Cognitive Threat Analytics – Transparency in Advanced Threat Research
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Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics is a security analytics product that discovers breaches in Cisco customer's networks by means of advanced statistical analysis, machine learning and global correlation...
Cognitive Research: Learning Detectors of Malicious Network Traffic
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This post was authored by Karel Bartos, Vojtech Franc, & Michal Sofka. Malware is constantly evolving and changing. One way to identify malware is by analyzing the...
Bad Browser Plug-ins Gone Wild: Malvertising, Data Exfiltration, and Malware, Oh my!
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This post was authored by Fred Concklin, William Largent, Martin Rehak, Michal Svoboda, and Veronica Valeros. During an average day of surfing the web via computer, smartphones, and tablets, we...
Steganographic Key Leakage Through Payload Metadata
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Steganography is the ancient art of invisible communication, where the goal is to hide the very fact that you are trying to hide something. It adds another layer of protection...
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