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What happens when you actually click the "report spam" button?
Talos Takes - October 20, 2023 08:00 - 8 minutesEveryone is tired of getting spam emails at this point, and it can feel exhausting always to click that "report spam" button just to get another phony email a few hours later. But we're here to assure you that reporting and filtering spam really does help in the long run! Nick Biasini joins the ...
How to find the right password management solution for you
Talos Takes - October 13, 2023 08:00 - 7 minutesTo continue our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series, Harpreet Singh from Talos Incident Response joins Jon to talk about password managers. They discuss the upside of using a third-party service like 1Password or LastPass, the potential dangers of using built-in browser password managers like G...
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: The best practices for implementing multi-factor authentication
Talos Takes - October 06, 2023 08:00 - 16 minutesAll of October, we'll be covering broad security-related topics for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. First up, we address the basics of implementing MFA in any environment, why any type of MFA is better than no MFA, the pitfalls of certain types of authentication, and whether going passwordless is...
Inside a Talos Incident Response emergency event
Talos Takes - September 29, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutesHazel Burton takes over as guest host for this episode as she talks to Nate Pors from Cisco Talos Incident Response. Nate was part of Talos IR's team that helped Veradigm, a healthcare technology company, prevent a Qakbot ransomware attack. Nate and his team recently wrote about this experience ...
How Talos helped defend BlackHat's network in Vegas
Talos Takes - September 22, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutesWhat happens when the hackers become the hacked? BlackHat is one of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world, and Talos had a hand in defending the on-site network for the past few years. Yuri Kramarz from Talos Incident Response worked in BlackHat's Network Operations Center this year...
How Talos helped defend Black Hat's network in Vegas
Talos Takes - September 22, 2023 07:00 - 15 minutesWhat happens when the hackers become the hacked? Black Hat is one of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world, and Talos had a hand in defending the on-site network for the past few years. Yuri Kramarz from Talos Incident Response worked in Black Hat's Network Operations Center this ye...
SapphireStealer hits the open internet
Talos Takes - September 08, 2023 12:00 - 7 minutesCisco Talos has recently written about malware families that go open-source, sometimes of their own volition, and sometimes because of leaks. In the case of SapphireStealer, we still don't really know why someone posted this malware to GitHub, but now that it's out there, we can't put it back in...
You're never going to believe this, but Lazarus Group is back again
Talos Takes - September 01, 2023 08:00 - 9 minutesNorth Korea's infamous APT group is back on the scene, this time with two new remote access trojans. By now, you've probably heard of Lazarus Group and all the annoying things they do to steal sensitive information, make money for North Korea's missile program, etc. But we have an update on thei...
Carrying out incident response in-person vs. virtually
Talos Takes - August 25, 2023 08:00 - 15 minutesEverything about the modern workplace is different now from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many companies are embracing the remote work lifestyle, while others are stuck in a hybrid model or pushing employees to come back to the office. With that in mind, we felt like it was a good time to ...
Hacktivism is quietly growing, especially when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Talos Takes - August 18, 2023 08:00 - 10 minutesThe stereotypical "hacker" who looks to do good in the world probably involves a Guy Fawkes mask and black hoodie. But hacktivism has become much more than that, especially since Russia invaded Ukraine. On the heels of a newly released overview on hacktivism, Lexi DiScola from the Talos Threat I...
What's the difference between data theft extortion and ransomware?
Talos Takes - August 11, 2023 08:00 - 10 minutesCisco Talos Incident Response observed data theft extortion more than any other type of cyber attack last quarter. So why has it become so popular? And what makes it different from ransomware? Jacob Finn from the Talos Threat Intelligence and Interdiction Team joins Jon this week to discuss the ...
Reading 2023's cybersecurity tarot cards
Talos Takes - August 04, 2023 08:00 - 11 minutesHazel Burton and Jon Munshaw use this week to look back on the top threats and cybersecurity trends so far in 2023 and the rest of the year. Hazel recently compiled Talos' Half-Year in Review, recapping the top stories that Talos has been following so far this year. She and Jon talk about what s...
(XL Edition): The top trends that Talos IR saw last quarter
Talos Takes - July 28, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutesWe're back with the audio version of our quarterly Cisco Talos Incident Response On Air stream. Join the Talos IR team as they recap the past quarter's top trends, including talking about malware they're seeing in the wild, tactics that attackers are using most often to break into networks, and ...
ISO 27002 sounds intimidating, but really it's just a cybersecurity shopping list
Talos Takes - July 21, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutesWhen Martin Lee first told Jon about ISO 27001 and 27002, Jon had to immediately Google whatever this combination of letters and numbers meant. Turns out there are international standards for cybersecurity, just like they have for selling lightbulbs and installing electrical outlets — who knew? ...
The dangers of "Mercenary" groups and the spyware they create
Talos Takes - July 14, 2023 08:00 - 8 minutesAsheer Malhotra is back to talk to Jon Munshaw about spyware and mercenary groups. Asheer recently helped publish Talos research on Mercenary Groups and why they're so dangerous in particular. We briefly touched on this topic in a past episode on the Predator/Alien spyware tag team, but this tim...
The various ways attackers can mess with URLs, TLDs and DNS
Talos Takes - June 30, 2023 08:00 - 13 minutesWe decided to have a web navigation extravaganza this week! Guilherme Venere and Jaeson Schultz from Talos Outreach have both long been researching the ways in which bad actors try to damage users' inherent trust in the internet. Most internet users interact with the web by typing in a URL or do...
What we know so far about the MOVEit zero-day making the rounds
Talos Takes - June 23, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutesAliza Johnson from Talos Threat Intelligence and Interdiction team joins Jon Munshaw this week for a Talos Takes episode on the MOVEit zero-day vulnerability (that's since been patched) making headlines recently. Talos published an advisory last week on everything we know so far about the exploi...
The hidden threat to the software supply chain you may not be thinking about
Talos Takes - June 16, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutesCisco Talos Incident Response recently discovered an uptick in malicious actors compromising vendor and third-party accounts to sneak into targeted networks. Many enterprises have vendor and contractor accounts that need to access their network for a variety of things — IT support, cybersecurity...
Horabot is here to do "horable" things to your email inbox
Talos Takes - June 09, 2023 08:00 - 13 minutesWe're joined this week by Chetan Raghuprasad to discuss a new botnet he recently discovered and researched. Horabot can completely hijack a target's Outlook mailbox to steal their contact list and then send even more spam to targets. It's the perfect business email compromise tool for attackers ...
The Predator spyware and more "mercenary" groups
Talos Takes - June 02, 2023 13:00 - 9 minutesDespite governments' best efforts, spyware is still running rampant on the threat landscape. These types of tracking malware are used to target high-profile individuals like politicians, activists, journalists and more — and even sometimes for jealous exes to track their former partners. Asheer ...
How to adapt to the constant change that comes with cybersecurity
Talos Takes - May 26, 2023 08:00 - 18 minutesHazel Burton is our special guest host this week of Talos Takes, featuring a very special guest: Talos Vice President Matt Watchinski! Matt and Hazel have a conversation for Mental Health Awareness Month, especially as it relates to the cybersecurity industry. They share tips on how to balance w...
RA Group is just the latest example of the ransomware landscape splintering
Talos Takes - May 19, 2023 08:00 - 8 minutesTalos researchers recently discovered a new ransomware group called "RA Group." This week, Nick Biasni joins Jon to discuss this new threat actor and the modified Babuk ransomware they've already used in attacks against a wide range of companies in the U.S. and South Korea. Nick talks about the ...
What makes the new Greatness phishing-as-a-service tool so great?
Talos Takes - May 12, 2023 08:00 - 8 minutesTiago Pereira from Talos Outreach joins the show this week to talk about his recent discovery of a new phishing-as-a-service tool called "Greatness." Since everything else is "as-a-service" nowadays, it's only fitting that attackers have figured out how to monetize easy phishing tools, too. Tiag...
XL Edition: Talos Incident Response livestream on top trends from the past quarter
Talos Takes - May 05, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutesThis week's episode is longer than usual, but we wanted to bring you the Cisco Talos Incident Response On Air livestream from last week for anyone who missed it. For anyone who prefers a video version, you can watch the recording here. In this discussion, researchers from Talos IR and the Talos...
Analyzing the recent takedown of popular dark web forums
Talos Takes - April 28, 2023 08:00 - 8 minutesOn the heels of law enforcement agencies from across the globe working together to disrupt two popular cybercrime forums — Genesis Market and BreachForums — Azim Khodjibaev from Talos' Threat Intelligence & Interdiction team joins Jon to talk about these types of sites. Azim has years of experie...
What does the future of MFA look like?
Talos Takes - April 21, 2023 13:00 - 12 minutesNowadays it seems like every major tech company has their own multi-factor authentication solution, whether that be a unique app, one-time passcode generation or the "classic" SMS two-factor code. Thorsten Rosendahl, the newest addition to the Cisco Talos Strategic Communications team in Europe,...
How to best prepare for, and respond to, supply chain attacks
Talos Takes - April 14, 2023 13:00 - 9 minutesWith another major supply chain attack recently making headlines, we felt like it was a good time to refresh our advice on how to prepare for these types of cyber attacks. Adversaries are increasingly relying on users' inherent trust of the software running on their networks and devices to deliv...
The defensive and offensive implications of ChatGPT and AI
Talos Takes - March 31, 2023 08:00 - 14 minutesEveryone is talking about tools like ChatGPT and other AI tools that are dominating headlines and threatening to upend every industry possible. But where do these things stand in cybersecurity? In this week's episode, Jon talks to two women who are well-versed on the topic and recently presented...
Talos Takes Ep. #132: Reflecting on one year of Talos' work in Ukraine
Talos Takes - March 24, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutesIt's been just over a year since Talos formed our Ukraine-focused task force. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many of our teammates sprung into action to protect critical infrastructure and networks there — not to mention the Talos employees who literally had to fight back to protect their h...
Why does the Prometei botnet keep growing?
Talos Takes - March 17, 2023 14:00 - 12 minutesVanja Svajcer and Andrew Windsor join the show this week to talk about their recent research into the Prometei botnet. This malware continues to evade detection and invade more machines so it can eventually hijack them to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Jon asks them about what's new with Prometei, ...
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