Cisco Talos

This post authored by Nick Biasini Talos is constantly monitoring the threat landscape including the email threat landscape. Lately this landscape has been dominated with Locky distribution. During a recent Locky vacation Talos noticed an interesting shift in file types being used to distribute anot…

Talos is releasing an advisory for a remote denial of service attack vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 AHCACHE.SYS. An attacker can craft a malicious portable executable file, which if accessed causes AHCACHE.SYS to attempt to access out of scope memory. This triggers a bugcheck in the Windows k…

This blog authored by Nick Biasini. Exploit kits are a class of threat that indiscriminately aims to compromise all users. Talos has continued to monitor this threat over time resulting in large scale research and even resulting in a large scale takedown. The focus of this investigation is on the to…

This Post Authored by Nick Biasini For a couple of weeks in June the threat landscape was changed. Several high profile threats fell off the landscape, causing a shake-up that hadn’t been seen before.  For a period of three weeks the internet was safer, if only for a short time. Still to date…

Vulnerability discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos. Talos is disclosing the presence of CVE-2016-4324 / TALOS-CAN-0126, a Use After Free vulnerability within the RTF parser of LibreOffice. The vulnerability lies in the parsing of documents containing both stylesheet and superscript tokens…

It may surprise you to know that Cisco security researchers have been fighting quietly, for more than a decade, on your behalf to defeat cyber criminals. Cisco Talos, our security intelligence and response organization, is an elite group of security experts focused on protecting you and your organiz…