By Talos Group Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between May 17 and May 24. As with previous roundups, 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 characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how […]
By Talos Group One year ago, Cisco Talos first disclosed the existence of VPNFilter on May 23, 2018. The malware made headlines across the globe, as it was a sophisticated piece of malware developed by a nation state, infecting half a million devices, and poised to cause havoc. Yet the attack was averted. This is […]
By Talos Group Nick Biasini and Edmund Brumaghin authored this blog post. Executive summary Over the past few months, a new malware loader has emerged that targets Italy and other European countries with banking trojans such as Gootkit. We recently released a comprehensive analysis of the functionality associated with JasperLoader. Shortly after the publication of […]
By Robert Waitman It’s been an eventful year since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, became enforceable one short year ago on May 25, 2018. One of the biggest impacts of the GDPR has been the way in which it has altered the conversation about data privacy. Data privacy has become an increasingly […]
By Megha Mehta According to Gartner1, “Applying behavioral analysis to network traffic is helping enterprises detect suspicious traffic that other security tools are missing.” The case for network traffic analysis to uncover hidden threats You are charged with protecting your organization and have made multiple investments to do so. But you might be under-utilizing one […]
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By Talos Group This blog was authored by Danny Adamitis, David Maynor, and Kendall McKay Executive summary Cisco Talos assesses with moderate confidence that a campaign we recently discovered called “BlackWater” is associated with suspected persistent threat actor MuddyWater. Newly associated samples from April 2019 indicate attackers have added three distinct steps to their operations, […]
By Neil Patel AV-Comparatives have long been the benchmark of 3rdparty testing in the endpoint security space. This year, for the first time ever, AMP for Endpoints participated in AV-Comparatives malware testing. The Business Main Test Series was broken up into two main sections: the Malware Protection Test and Business Real-World Protection Test. While the […]
By Pierre Cadieux During the past year, Cisco Security Incident Response Services has provided emergency incident response services for many customers dealing with incidents that sometimes become a ransomware event. In many cases, we were engaged by the company at the first sign of trouble and were able to help contain the initial incident and […]
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