Talos ThreatSource is a regular intelligence update from Cisco Talos, highlighting the biggest threats each week and other security news.
UPCOMING PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS WITH TALOS
Event: Talos and the Evolving Threat Landscape Date: 2016-03-23 @ 13:30 Speaker: Holger Unterbrink, Technical Leader Description: Talos is Cisco's Threat Research group. Today's IT organizations need security solutions relying on leading threat intelligence to effectively safeguard their extended networks. Creating leading threat intelligence is the focus of the Cisco Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group. In this session, you will learn what is Talos and what it means to you, learn about the scale and severity of the current threat landscape, and discover how attackers change in attack behavior. Reference: http://www.infosecurity.be/default.aspx
Event: Evolution of the Angler Exploit Kit @ BSides Austin Date: 2016-03-31 & 2016-04-01 Speaker: Earl Carter, Threat Researcher Description: Exploit kits are a well-known threat on the Internet that effectively targets users through malvertising and compromised websites. This threat indiscriminately targets both home and work users. Cisco Talos is constantly analyzing the functionality utilized by various exploit kits using massive data feeds that give us a unique insight into the constantly evolving threat landscape. Since the Angler Exploit kit is the most prolific exploit kit in operation today, we have done extensive analysis on how it operates and the various features it has incorporated to avoid detection. During this talk, we will perform a detailed analysis on the features incorporated into Angler that we have researched over the last year as well as our collaboration with Limestone Networks to research and expose the entire back-end network used to serve Angler (a campaign that was conservatively earning over $30 Million a year infecting users with ransomware). Reference: http://bsidesaustin.com/
Event: Emerging Threats @ AtlSecCon 2016 Date: 2016-04-07 & 2016-04-08 Speaker: Earl Carter, Threat Researcher Description: Cisco Talos has a unique view into the ever evolving and changing threat landscape. We constantly research and identify how threat actors are evolving their skills and tactics by analyzing massive data feeds and working with teams of security experts. During this talk we will provide detailed analysis of the current threat landscape by examining the major threats that we have researched over the past 6-9 months. Some of the threats we plan to cover include SSHPsychos, the evolution of the Cryptowall ransomware, the Angler Exploit Kit, Rombertik, and phishing campaigns. Reference: https://atlseccon.com/
Event: Talos: Threat Intelligence and the Emerging Threat Landscape Date: 2016-04-13 @ 10:30am Speaker: William Largent, Threat Researcher Description: Cisco's Talos team specializes in early-warning intelligence and threat analysis necessary for defending networks against the ever-changing threat landscape, by leveraging the work of Talos' large team of threat intelligence experts, researchers, and engineers. In this talk we will perform deep analysis of recent threats and see how Talos leverages large datasets to deliver product improvements and mitigation strategies. Reference: http://cisco.cvent.com/events/2016-cisco-geekfest/event-summary-77abe9b97e3f414da87b3bfd8c1300ee.aspx
Event: Emerging Threats - The State of Cyber Security @ Cisco Connect Toronto Date: 2016-05-18 & 2016-05-19 Speaker: Earl Carter, Threat Researcher Description: The security threat landscape is constantly in flux as attackers evolve their skills and tactics. Cisco's Talos team specializes in early-warning intelligence and threat analysis necessary to help secure a network in light of this ever changing and growing threat landscape. Talos advances the overall efficacy of all Cisco security platforms by analyzing data feeds, collaborating with teams of security experts, and developing cutting-edge big data technology to identify security threats. In this talk we will perform deep analysis of recent threats and see how Talos leverages large data intelligence feeds to deliver product improvements and mitigation strategies. Reference: http://ciscoconnecttoronto.ca/
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