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New PXA Stealer targets government and education sectors for sensitive information

Cisco Talos discovered a new information stealing campaign operated by a Vietnamese-speaking threat actor targeting government and education entities in Europe and Asia.   Learn More

Threat actors use copyright infringement phishing lure to deploy infostealers

Cisco Talos has observed a threat actor conducting a phishing campaign targeting Facebook business and advertising account users in Taiwan. This campaign delivers an information stealer onto the target's machine to avoid network security product detections.  Learn More

Threat Spotlight: WarmCookie/BadSpace

WarmCookie is a malware family that emerged in April 2024 and has been distributed via regularly conducted malspam and malvertising campaigns.  Learn More

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Latest Talos Takes Podcast Episodes

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Unwrapping the emerging Interlock ransomware attack

Chetan Raghuprasad is our guest today as he breaks down the relatively new Interlock ransomware attack. Cisco Talos Incident Response recently observed this attacker conducting big-game hunting and double extortion attacks. Chetan talks about the initial access tactics, deployment of the ransomware encryptor, and how Interlock communicates with its victims using their “Worldwide Secrets Blog”.For the full analysis, head to https://blog.talosintelligence.com/emerging-interlock-ransomware/

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