Tag: reconnaissance

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Year in Review: AI based threats

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/year-in-review-ai-based-threats/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Year in Review: AI based threats Feedly Summary: 2024 wasn’t the year that AI rewrote the cybercrime playbook — but it did turbocharge some of the old tricks. Read this summary of AI-based threats, from Talos’ 2024 Year in Review. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • 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…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft

    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/17/stilachirat-analysis-from-system-reconnaissance-to-cryptocurrency-theft/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft Feedly Summary: Microsoft Incident Response uncovered a novel remote access trojan (RAT) named StilachiRAT, which demonstrates sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target environment, and exfiltrate sensitive data. This blog primarily focuses on analysis of the WWStartupCtrl64.dll…

  • The Register: This is the FBI, open up. China’s Volt Typhoon is on your network

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/volt_tyhoon_experience_interview_with_gm/ Source: The Register Title: This is the FBI, open up. China’s Volt Typhoon is on your network Feedly Summary: Power utility GM talks to El Reg about getting that call and what happened next Nick Lawler, general manager of the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), was at home one Friday…

  • 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…