Security

You may have lots of good people collecting and analyzing data. But have you ever thought about how human bias and expectations can affect the results of your analysis? Or the quality of the decisions your company makes based on that analysis? My most recent podcast guest certainly has. Annie Duke h…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between May 4 and May 11. 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 behavioral ch…

This blog post authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Nick Lister and Christopher Marczewski. Despite the recent decline in the prevalence of ransomware in the threat landscape, Cisco Talos has been monitoring the now widely distributed ransomware called Gandcrab. Gandcrab uses both tradit…

In a digital era when everything and everyone is connected, malicious actors have the perfect space to perform their activities. During the past few years, organizations have suffered several kinds of attacks that arrived in many shapes and forms. But none have been more impactful than wiper attacks…

Today, Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month’s advisory release addresses 67 new vulnerabilities, with 21 of them rated critical, 42 of them rated important, and four rated as lo…

Overview Today, Talos is releasing details of a new vulnerability within MySQL Multi-Master Manager. This is used to perform monitoring, failover and management of MySQL master-master replication configurations. By using MySQL MMM (Multi-Master Replication Manager for MySQL) it ensures that only one…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between April 27 and May 4. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. We’ll summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristi…

Many professional athletes would say that while winning the first championship is unforgettable, its winning back-to-back championships—or even accomplishing the rare three-peat—that carries special meaning as it requires an enduring focus and a consistent commitment to excellence to achieve the hig…

Network security threats are a fact of life. But the modern security arsenal has highly effective tools like security information and event management. SIEM platforms can provide a wealth of information to help you quickly and accurately assess security threats and take immediate remediation actions…