Listen to Talos security experts as they bring their hot takes on current security topics and Talos research to the table. Along the way Hazel, Mitch, Matt and a rotating chair of special guests will talk about anything (and we mean anything) that's on their minds, from the latest YouTube trends to Olympic curling etiquette. New episodes every other Thursday.
Talos' Ashley Shen joins Hazel, Dave, Bill and Joe to talk about investigating emerging threats and building security communities.
Ashley shares her route into threat intelligence, as well as the stories behind co-founding HITCON GIRLS in Taiwan and Rhacklette in Switzerland and how she helps others find their way into security. We discuss her work investigating spyware and surveillance campaigns, investigating UAT-6275 with Recorded Future, how she builds an attribution case, and as a Black Hat board reviewer, what conference reviewers want from a CFP submission.
Plus, learn about how Ashley’s AI agents are working around the clock (but they’re all waiting for her). Dave investigates the team’s karaoke choices. And in 'Make Hazel a Hacker', a modest incident response budget meets some very old bidet-making equipment.
Link to Ashley's Talos research: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/author/ashley/
Rhacklette community: https://rhacklette41.github.io/
HITCON Girls: https://girls.hitcon.org/main/en.html
A production note: Technical difficulties during recording affected the audio quality in a few small places. We’ve cleaned it up as much as possible. Thanks for bearing with us.
Every week, our host brings on a new guest from Talos or the broader Cisco Security world to break down a complicated security topic in just five or 10 minutes. We cover everything from breaking news to attacker trends and emerging threats.
Attackers have always had a bottleneck. Stealing massive amounts of data is easy, but identifying which victims are truly worth the effort can be slow, tedious work. That changed with the discovery of the VOLTA-AUTODOXER.
In this episode, Amy chats with Ryan Fetterman, creator of the CAIRN research framework, to break down a newly discovered infostealer. Unlike traditional stealers, VOLTA integrates LLMs to analyze stolen credentials in real-time, effectively turning raw data into a prioritized, high-value dossier for the attacker.
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