CyberSecurity

Cisco Talos is aware of the recent advisory published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warning the healthcare industry about Rhysida ransomware activity. As we’ve discussed recently, there has been huge growth in the ransomware and extortion space, potentially linked to the plethora of leaked builders and source code related to

Cisco Talos is actively tracking the novel distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks cloud services provider Cloudflare disclosed earlier this week. The techniques described in Cloudflare’s blog post resulted in a record-breaking DDoS attack and could facilitate much larger attacks in the future.  CVE-2023-44487 CVE-2023-44487, a vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, was recently used to launch intensive

Updates   Nov. 02: Identified a third version of the BadCandy implant. Added expected response from the new version of the implant against one of the HTTP requests used to check for infected device. Nov. 1: Observed increase in exploitation attempts since the publication of the proofs-of-concept (POCs) of the exploits involved. Named the Lua-based web

*Updated 2024-04-25 16:57 GMT with minor wording corrections regarding the targeting of other vendors. ArcaneDoor is a campaign that is the latest example of state-sponsored actors targeting perimeter network devices from multiple vendors. Coveted by these actors, perimeter network devices are the perfect intrusion point for espionage-focused campaigns. As a critical path for data into

Cisco Talos would like to acknowledge Anna Bennett and Brandon White of Cisco Talos and Phillip Schafer, Mike Moran, and Becca Lynch of the Duo Security Research team for their research that led to the identification of these attacks. Cisco Talos is actively monitoring a global increase in brute-force attacks against a variety of targets,