Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 5, 2019)

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 5, 2019)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.

Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week.

By now, nearly everyone has heard of BlueKeep. It definitely sounds scary, with of this talk of wormable bugs and WannaCry. But so far, no attackers have used it to launch a large-scale attack.

Of course, we knew this wouldn’t stay quiet forever. Last month, Microsoft disclosed more RDP vulnerabilities in what’s being called “DejaBlue.” These are another set of wormable bugs, but we have a walkthrough for how Cisco Firepower customers can stay protected.

Elsewhere on the vulnerability front, we have advisories out for an information disclosure in Blynk-Library and two bugs in Epignosis eFront.

We also have our weekly Threat Roundup, which you can find on the blog every Friday afternoon. There, we go over the most prominent threats we’ve seen (and blocked) over the past week.

Upcoming public engagements with Talos

Event: “DNS on Fire” at Virus Bulletin 2019Location: Novotel London West hotel, London, U.K.Date: Oct. 2 - 4Speaker: Warren Mercer and Paul RascagneresSynopsis: In this talk, Paul and Warren will walk through two campaigns Talos discovered targeted DNS. The first actor developed a piece of malware, named “DNSpionage,” targeting several government agencies in the Middle East, as well as ..

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