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Cisco Talos has been closely monitoring reports of widespread intrusion activity against several major U.S. telecommunications companies, by a threat actor dubbed Salt Typhoon. This blog highlights our observations on this campaign and identifies recommendations for detection and prevention.

Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in ClearML and four vulnerabilities in Nvidia.  The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulnerability disclosure policy.    For Snort

Hazel discusses Interpol’s push to rename pig butchering scams as ‘romance baiting’. Plus, catch up on the latest vulnerability research from Talos, and why a recent discovery is a “rare industry win”.

Microsoft has released its monthly security update for January of 2025 which includes 58 vulnerabilities, including 3 that Microsoft marked as “critical” and one marked as "moderate". The remaining vulnerabilities listed are classified as “important.”

By Aleksandar Nikolich Earlier this year, we conducted code audits of the macOS printing subsystem, which is heavily based on the open-source CUPS package. During this investigation, IPP-USB protocol caught our attention. IPP over USB specification defines how printers that are available over USB can only still support network printing

Thorsten examines last year’s CVE list and compares it to recent Talos Incident Response trends. Plus, get all the details on the new vulnerabilities disclosed by Talos’ Vulnerability Research Team.

A technical overview of Cisco Talos' investigations into Google Cloud Platform Cloud Build, and the threat surface posed by the storage permission family.

Martin discusses how defenders can use threat intelligence to equip themselves against AI-based threats. Plus check out his introductory course to threat intelligence.

This new report from Cisco Talos Incident Response explores how threat actors increasingly deployed web shells against vulnerable web applications, and exploited vulnerable or unpatched public-facing applications to gain initial access.

Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Research team recently disclosed three vulnerabilities in Observium, three vulnerabilities in Offis, and four vulnerabilities in Whatsup Gold.    These vulnerabilities exist in Observium, a network observation and monitoring system; Offis DCMTK, a collection of libraries and applications implementing DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications