Threat Source newsletter (March 12, 2020)

Threat Source newsletter (March 12, 2020)
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.

Obviously, COVID-19 is dominating headlines everywhere, and for good reason. We hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy and making the appropriate decisions when it comes to traveling and working.

In certainly less serious news, we have our monthly Microsoft Patch Tuesday post and the accompanying Snort rules out. There is also a large Vulnerability Spotlight out on several vulnerabilities we discovered in WAGO products, a popular producer of automation software.

And, as always, we have the latest Threat Roundup where we go through the top threats we saw — and blocked — over the past week.

Upcoming public engagements


Event: “Everyone's Advanced Now: The evolution of actors on the threat landscape” at Interop Tokyo 2020Location: Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, JapanDate: June 10 - 12Speakers: Nick BiasiniSynopsis: In the past, there were two clear classes of adversary an enterprise would face: sophisticated and basic. These basic threats were commodity infections that would require simple triage and remediation. Today, these commodity infections can quickly turn into enterprise-crippling ransomware attacks, costing organizations millions of dollars to recover. Now more than ever, organizations need every advantage they can get — and threat intelligence is a big part of it. Having visibility into your ..

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