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March 27, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Certificate Validation Flaw in Apple macOS and iOS Identified and Patched

Most people don’t give much thought to what happens when you connect to your bank’s website or log in to your email account. For most people, securely connecting to a website seems as simple as checking to make sure the little padlock in the address bar is present. However, in the backgr…

March 24, 2017

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Threat Round-up for the Week of Mar 20 – Mar 24

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed over the past week. 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 characteri…

March 23, 2017

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How Malformed RTF Defeats Security Engines

This post is authored by Paul Rascagneres with contributions from Alex McDonnell Executive Summary Talos has discovered a new spam campaign used to infect targets with the well known  Loki Bot stealer. The infection vector is an RTF document abusing an old exploit (CVE-2012-1856), however the most i…

March 17, 2017

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Threat Round-up for the Week of Mar 13 – Mar 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed over the past week. 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 characteri…

March 10, 2017

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Threat Roundup for the Week of Mar 6 – Mar 10

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed over the past week. As with our previous threat round-up, 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…

March 8, 2017

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Content-Type: Malicious – New Apache Struts2 0-day Under Attack

This Post Authored by Nick Biasini UPDATE: It was recently disclosed that in addition to Content-Type being vulnerable, both Content-Disposition and Content-Length can be manipulated to trigger this particular vulnerability. No new CVE was listed, however details of the vulnerability and remediation…

March 3, 2017

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Malware Round-up For The Week of Feb 27 – Mar 3

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed over the past week. Unlike our other posts, 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 characteristic…

February 27, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in Iceni Argus PDF Content Extraction affect Mar …

Overview Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Iceni Argus PDF content extraction product. Exploiting these vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to gain full control over the victim’s machine. Although the main product is deprecated by Iceni, the library is still supported. Iceni h…

February 16, 2017

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Cisco Coverage for ‘Magic Hound’

‘Magic Hound’ is the code name used to reference a seemingly limited series of malware distribution campaigns that were observed targeting organizations in Saudi Arabia as well as organizations with business interests in Saudi Arabia. Similar to other malware distribution campaigns that…