Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week.
Sorry we missed you last week, we were all away at Hacker Summer Camp. If you missed us at Black Hat, we have a roundup up on the blog of some of the “flash talks” from our researchers and analysts.
Patch Tuesday was also this week, and we’ve got you covered with Snort rules and coverage of some of the most critical bugs.
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: “It’s never DNS...It was DNS: How adversaries are abusing network blind spots” at SecTorLocation: Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, CanadaDate: Oct. 7 - 10Speaker: Edmund Brumaghin and Earl CarterSynopsis: While DNS is one of the most commonly used network protocols in most corporate networks, many organizations don’t give it the same level of scrutiny as other network protocols present in their environments. DNS has become increasingly attractive to both red teams and malicious attackers alike to easily subvert otherwise solid security architectures. This presentation will provide several technical breakdowns of real-world attacks that have been seen leveraging DNS for a variety of purposes s ..Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
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