Threat Source newsletter (March 19, 2020)

Threat Source newsletter (March 19, 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.

We hope everyone is staying home (if possible) and staying safe. Unfortunately, the bad guys aren’t going anywhere, so we’re still plugging away remotely. Hasn’t anyone told them we need a break?

COVID-19 is obviously on the top of everyone’s mind. We are working on some new content around working from home and COVID-related malware. In the meantime, go back and read our post from February about attackers trying to take advantage of coronavirus panic.

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 own environment and attacks around the globe are equally vital to success. This talk will c ..

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