One year later: The VPNFilter catastrophe that wasn’t
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 […]
Sorpresa! JasperLoader targets Italy with a new bag of tricks
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 […]
GDPR One Year On: What Have We Learned?
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 […]
Cisco is a Representative Vendor in the first ever Gartner 2019 Market Guide for the NTA (Network Traffic Analysis) market
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 […]
Innovaphone PBX V13 ist veröffentlicht
Der Trend zum flexiblen, modernen und ortsunabhängigen Arbeiten geht weiter. Die Herausforderung dabei besteht darin, Lösungen zu entwickeln, die sich ständig an neue Anforderungen anpassen. Kreativität und Mobilität, das Arbeiten in generations- und länderübergreifenden Teams und das Verschwinden der Grenzen zwischen Arbeit und Freizeit werden Kernpunkte unseres zukünftigen Arbeitslebens sein. innovaphone nimmt diese Herausforderung an […]
Recent MuddyWater-associated BlackWater campaign shows signs of new anti-detection techniques
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, […]