Threat Research

April 5, 2018

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Critical Infrastructure at Risk: Advanced Actors Target Smart Install Client

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Cisco has recently become aware of specific advanced actors targeting Cisco switches by leveraging a protocol misuse issue in the Cisco Smart Install Client.

February 12, 2018

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Olympic Destroyer Takes Aim At Winter Olympics

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The Winter Olympics this year is being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The Guardian, a UK Newspaper reported an article that suggested the Olympic computer systems suffered technical issues during...

October 24, 2017

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Threat Spotlight: Follow the Bad Rabbit

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Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues. On October 24, 2017, Cisco Talos was alerted to a widescale ransomware campaign affecting organizations across eastern Europe and Russia. As was the case in previous situations, we quickly […]

September 20, 2017

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CCleaner Command and Control Causes Concern

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This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter, Warren Mercer, Matthew Molyett, Matthew Olney, Paul Rascagneres and Craig Williams. Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues. Introduction Talos recently published a technical analysis of a backdoor which was included with version 5.33 of the CCleaner […]

September 15, 2017

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Threat Round Up for Sept 8 – Sept 15

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between September 08 and September 15. 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 […]

September 7, 2017

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Another Apache Struts Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation

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This post authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Alex Chiu. Earlier this week, a critical vulnerability in Apache Struts was publically disclosed in a security advisory. This new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2017-9805, manifests due to the way the REST plugin uses XStreamHandler with an instance of XStream for deserialization without any type filtering. As […]

August 3, 2017

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Taking the FIRST look at Crypt0l0cker

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This post is authored by Matthew Molyett. Executive Summary In March, Talos reported on the details of Crypt0l0cker based on an extensive analysis I carried out on the sample binaries. Binaries — plural — because, as noted in the original blog, the Crypt0l0cker payload leveraged numerous executable files which shared the same codebase. Those executables had nearly identical […]

June 27, 2017

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New Ransomware Variant “Nyetya” Compromises Systems Worldwide

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Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues. For the most current info, please read our full blog on TalosIntelligence.com. Since the SamSam attacks that targeted US healthcare entities in March 2016, Talos has been concerned about […]

June 19, 2017

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Delphi Used To Score Against Palestine

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Executive Summary This blog was authored by Paul Rascagneres and Warren Mercer with contributions from Emmanuel Tacheau, Vanja Svajcer and Martin Lee. Talos continuously monitors malicious emails campaigns. We identified one specific spear phishing campaign launched against targets within Palestine, and specifically against Palestinian law enforcement agencies. This campaign started in April 2017, using a […]