Tag: Cisco Talos

  • Cisco Talos Blog: UAT-5918 targets critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-5918-targets-critical-infra-in-taiwan/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: UAT-5918 targets critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan Feedly Summary: UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft, uses a combination of web shells and open-sourced tooling to conduct post-compromise activities to establish persistence in victim environments for information theft and…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Patch it up: Old vulnerabilities are everyone’s problems

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/patch-it-up-old-vulnerabilities-are-everyones-problems/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Patch it up: Old vulnerabilities are everyone’s problems Feedly Summary: Thorsten picks apart some headlines, highlights Talos’ report on an unknown attacker predominantly targeting Japan, and asks, “Where is the victim, and does it matter?” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights critical security concerns…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Abusing with style: Leveraging cascading style sheets for evasion and tracking

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/css-abuse-for-evasion-and-tracking/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Abusing with style: Leveraging cascading style sheets for evasion and tracking Feedly Summary: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are ever present in modern day web browsing, however its far from their own use. This blog will detail the ways adversaries use CSS in email campaigns for evasion and…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/march-patch-tuesday-release/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Microsoft has released its monthly security update for March of 2025 which includes 57 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 6 that Microsoft marked as “critical”.  AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Who is Responsible and Does it Matter?

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/who-is-responsible-and-does-it-matter/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Who is Responsible and Does it Matter? Feedly Summary: Martin Lee dives into to the complexities of defending our customers from threat actors and covers the latest Talos research in this week’s newsletter. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides insights into the methodologies used…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Unmasking the new persistent attacks on Japan

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/new-persistent-attacks-japan/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Unmasking the new persistent attacks on Japan Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos has discovered an active exploitation of CVE-2024-4577 by an attacker in order to gain access to the victim’s machines and carry out post-exploitation activities. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes a sophisticated cyberattack…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Efficiency? Security? When the quest for one grants neither.

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/efficiency-security-when-the-quest-for-one-grants-neither/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Efficiency? Security? When the quest for one grants neither. Feedly Summary: William discusses what happens when security is an afterthought rather than baked into processes and highlights the latest of Talos’ security research. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a critique of recent security oversights…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Weathering the storm: In the midst of a Typhoon

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/salt-typhoon-analysis/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Weathering the storm: In the midst of a Typhoon Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos has been closely monitoring reports of widespread intrusion activity against several major U.S. telecommunications companies, by a threat actor dubbed Salt Typhoon. This blog highlights our observations on this campaign and identifies recommendations for…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: ClearML and Nvidia vulns

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/clearml-and-nvidia-vulns/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: ClearML and Nvidia vulns Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in ClearML and four vulnerabilities in Nvidia. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulnerability disclosure policy.   For Snort…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/february-patch-tuesday-release/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Microsoft has released its monthly security update for January of 2025 which includes 58 vulnerabilities, including 3 that Microsoft marked as “critical” and one marked as “moderate". The remaining vulnerabilities listed are classified…