This post was authored by Aleksandar Nikolic, Warren Mercer, and Jaeson Schultz. Summary MiniUPnP is commonly used to allow two devices which are behind NAT firewalls to communicate with each other by opening connections in each of the firewalls
[ed. note – this post was authored jointly by John Stuppi and Dan Hubbard] The Domain Name Service (DNS) provides the IP addresses of intended domain names in response to queries from requesting end hosts. Because many threat actors today are
This Post was Authored by Nick Biasini, with contributions by Joel Esler Exploit Kits are one of the biggest threats that affects users, both inside and outside the enterprise, as it indiscriminately compromises simply by visiting a web site
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...
Interest in IT security has never been higher. So when a new type of attack comes along, it attracts the attention of our customers and others in the industry. Earlier this week Cisco and Mandiant/Fireye released information about the so-called SYNful
This post was authored by Nick Biasini Talos has found a new SPAM campaign that is using multiple layers of obfuscation to attempt to evade detection. Spammers are always evolving to get their messages to the end users by bypassing SPAM filters while
This post was authored by Nick Biasini Late last week Talos researchers noticed a drastic uptick in Angler Exploit Kit activity. We have covered Angler previously, such as the discussion of domain shadowing. This exploit kit evolves on an almost
This post was authored by Earl Carter & Jaeson Schultz. Talos is always fascinated by the endless creativity of those who send spam. Miscreants who automate sending spam using botnets are of particular interest. Talos has been tracking a spam
This post was authored by Ben Baker and Alex Chiu. Executive Summary Threat actors and security researchers are constantly looking for ways to better detect and evade each other. As researchers have become more adept and efficient at malware
