Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 23, 2020)

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 23, 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.

Despite tensions starting to fizzle between the U.S. and Iran, people are still worried about cyber conflict. What would that even look like? Is it too late to start worrying now, anyway? That’s the main topic of the latest Beers with Talos podcast.

You should probably know this already, but you should actually never count out any type of cyber threat. Despite the declining popularity of virtual currencies, we are still seeing adversaries who want to hijack victims’ computing power to farm them. Take Vivin, for example. The latest cryptominer actor we discovered has been active since 2017, and is just getting started with its malicious activities in 2020.

Over at the Snort blog, you’ll want to keep an eye out for some changes we have coming to Snort.org. We’ll spare you the details for now, but please bear with us if the search function isn’t working correctly for you or you see anything else wonky on the site.

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

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