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Talos Security Intelligence & Research Group

The Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group (Talos) is made up of leading threat researchers supported by sophisticated systems to create threat intelligence for Cisco products that detects, analyzes and protects against both known and emerging threats. Talos maintains the official rule sets of Snort.org, ClamAV, SenderBase.org and SpamCop. This blog profile is managed by multiple authors with expertise that spans software development, reverse engineering, vulnerability triage, malware investigation and intelligence gathering.

Talos is the primary team that contributes threat information to the Cisco Collective Security Intelligence (CSI) ecosystem. Cisco CSI is shared across multiple security solutions and provides industry-leading security protections and efficacy. In addition to threat researchers, CSI is driven by intelligence infrastructure, product and service telemetry, public and private feeds and the open source community.

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July 20, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Vulnerabilities in CorelDRAW X8

Today, Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities that have been identified in CorelDRAW X8. CorelDRAW X8 is graphics suite used for manipulating raster and vector images and is a common alternative to Adobe Creative Cloud. Several of the vulnerabilities being disclosed today specifically affect PH…

July 19, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerabilities in ProcessMaker, WebFOCUS, and OpenFire Identified and Patched

Today, Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities that have been identified by Portcullis in various software products. All four vulnerabilities have been responsibly disclosed to each respective developer in order ensure they are addressed. In order better protect our customers, Talos has also dev…

July 19, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Unravelling .NET with the Help of WinDBG

This blog was authored by Paul Rascagneres and Warren Mercer. Introduction .NET is an increasingly important component of the Microsoft ecosystem providing a shared framework for interoperability between different languages and hardware platforms. Many Microsoft tools, such as PowerShell, and other…

July 17, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

PyREBox, a Python scriptable Reverse Engineering sandbox

This post was authored by Xabier Ugarte Pedrero In Talos, we are continuously trying to improve our research and threat intelligence capabilities. As a consequence, we not only leverage standard tools for analysis, but we also focus our efforts on innovation, developing our own technology to overc…

July 17, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Memcached – A Story of Failed Patching & Vulnerable Servers

This blog authored by Aleksandar Nikolich and David Maynor with contributions from Nick Biasini Memcached – Not secure, Not Patched Fast Enough Recently high profile vulnerabilities in systems were used to unleash several global ransomware attacks that greatly impacted organizations. These typ…

July 11, 2017

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – July 2017

Today, Microsoft has release their monthly set of security updates designed to address vulnerabilities. This month’s release addresses 54 vulnerabilities with 19 of them rated critical, 32 rated important, and 3 rated moderate. Impacted products include Edge, .NET Framework,  Internet Explorer…

July 11, 2017

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Iceni Infix PDF Editor Memory Corruption

Today, Talos is disclosing a vulnerability that has been identified in Iceni Infix PDF Editor that could lead to arbitrary code execution on affected hosts. This vulnerability manifests in a way that could be exploited if a user opens a specifically crafted PDF file that triggers this flaw. Talos ha…

July 7, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Attack on Critical Infrastructure Leverages Template Injection

Contributors:  Sean Baird, Earl Carter, Erick Galinkin, Christopher Marczewski & Joe Marshall  Executive Summary Attackers are continually trying to find new ways to target users with malware sent via email. Talos has identified an email-based attack targeting the energy sector, including nuclea…

July 7, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Threat Round-up for June 30 – July 7

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between June 30 and July 07. 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 c…