Tag: cisco talos
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GravityRAT malware takes your system’s temperature
Cisco Talos researchers Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagnères recently discovered and analysed ‘GravityRAT’, an advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that appears to have been used in targeted attacks against organizations in India. Analysis of this piece of malware gives an interesting insight into the current state of malware development. The malware is delivered through a…
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Olympic Games target of malware, again
The organisers of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have confirmed a malware attack against their computer systems. Though the attack affected the Wi-Fi during Friday’s opening ceremony and knocked the event’s website offline for a few hours, no permanent damage appears to have been done. Cisco Talos researchers Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres have performed a…
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Olympic Games target of malware, again
The organisers of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have confirmed a malware attack against their computer systems. Though the attack affected the Wi-Fi during Friday’s opening ceremony and knocked the event’s website offline for a few hours, no permanent damage appears to have been done. Cisco Talos researchers Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres have performed a…
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VB2017 paper: Modern reconnaissance phase on APT – protection layer
Targeted attack campaigns involve multiple stages, the first of which consists of collecting information about the target: the reconnaissance phase. It’s an essential part of any campaign and one that often exploits that well known weakest link: the human user. At VB2017 in Madrid, Cisco Talos researchers Paul Rascagneres and Warren Mercer presented a paper…
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VB2017 paper: Modern reconnaissance phase on APT – protection layer
Targeted attack campaigns involve multiple stages, the first of which consists of collecting information about the target: the reconnaissance phase. It’s an essential part of any campaign and one that often exploits that well known weakest link: the human user. At VB2017 in Madrid, Cisco Talos researchers Paul Rascagneres and Warren Mercer presented a paper…
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Malicious CCleaner update points to a major weakness in our infrastructure
For the security community, 2017 might well be called the year of the update: two of the biggest security stories – the WannaCry outbreak and the Equifax breach – involved organizations being hit badly as a consequence of not having installed (security) updates, while another major story, that of (Not)Petya , concerned a threat that…
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Malicious CCleaner update points to a major weakness in our infrastructure
For the security community, 2017 might well be called the year of the update: two of the biggest security stories – the WannaCry outbreak and the Equifax breach – involved organizations being hit badly as a consequence of not having installed (security) updates, while another major story, that of (Not)Petya , concerned a threat that…