How Malformed RTF Defeats Security Engines

By Talos Group 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 interesting part is the effort put into the […]

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Payment Processor Secures Global Network with Stealthwatch

By Jody Ma Kissling Elavon is the fourth-largest payment processing company in the world. They process more than 3 billion transactions annually, worth more than $300 billion. Elavon has more than a million customers and is a leading payment solutions provider for airlines and a top five provider for hospitality, healthcare, and retail. With a globally distributed network that […]

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Payment Processor Secures Global Network with Stealthwatch

By Jody Ma Kissling Elavon is the fourth-largest payment processing company in the world. They process more than 3 billion transactions annually, worth more than $300 billion. Elavon has more than a million customers and is a leading payment solutions provider for airlines and a top five provider for hospitality, healthcare, and retail. With a globally distributed network that […]

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Code Execution Vulnerability in LabVIEW

By Talos Group Overview LabVIEW is a system design and development platform released by National Instruments. The software is widely used to create applications for data acquisition, instrument control and industrial automation. Talos is disclosing the presence of a code execution vulnerability and a memory corruption vulnerability which can be triggered by opening specially crafted VI files, the […]

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Code Execution Vulnerability in LabVIEW

By Talos Group Overview LabVIEW is a system design and development platform released by National Instruments. The software is widely used to create applications for data acquisition, instrument control and industrial automation. Talos is disclosing the presence of a code execution vulnerability and a memory corruption vulnerability which can be triggered by opening specially crafted VI files, the […]

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March 2017 Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Bundled Publication

By Erin Float Today, we released the first Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2017. (As a reminder, Cisco discloses vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software on a predictable schedule—the fourth Wednesday of March and September in each calendar year). Today’s edition of the Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Security Advisory […]

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March 2017 Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Bundled Publication

By Erin Float Today, we released the first Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2017. (As a reminder, Cisco discloses vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software on a predictable schedule—the fourth Wednesday of March and September in each calendar year). Today’s edition of the Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Security Advisory […]

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“Time to Evolve” Analysis Yields New Insight on Malware Obfuscation Techniques and Adds Dimension to “Time to Detection” Metric

By Aaron Weis [Blog authored by Aaron Weis and Samuel Wigley] Cisco has been measuring our security products‘ median “time to detection” (TTD) — the window of time between a compromise and detection of a threat — since 2015. This exercise is a way for us to benchmark our progress, and continually refine our approach, to detecting threats. […]

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“Time to Evolve” Analysis Yields New Insight on Malware Obfuscation Techniques and Adds Dimension to “Time to Detection” Metric

By Aaron Weis [Blog authored by Aaron Weis and Samuel Wigley] Cisco has been measuring our security products‘ median “time to detection” (TTD) — the window of time between a compromise and detection of a threat — since 2015. This exercise is a way for us to benchmark our progress, and continually refine our approach, to detecting threats. […]

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Necurs Diversifies Its Portfolio

By Talos Group The post was authored by Sean Baird, Edmund Brumaghin and Earl Carter, with contributions from Jaeson Schultz. Executive Summary The Necurs botnet is the largest spam botnet in the world. Over the past year it has been used primarily for the distribution of Locky ransomware and Dridex. Earlier this year, we wrote about how the […]

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