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  • Bring a tent, I've got the coffee: Lessons from it-sa Thorsten Rosendahl
    Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I'm just back from an interesting and demanding week of booth duty at it-sa Expo&Congress in Nuremberg, where Talos had a Point of Demonstration at the Cisco booth.I personally see it-sa as the German or European counterpart to the RSA Conference in San Francisco, with a slightly different center of gravity in at least two dimensions. First, the expo is the main event, not the congress. The congress is organized by associations,
     

Bring a tent, I've got the coffee: Lessons from it-sa

5 de Novembro de 2026, 16:00
Bring a tent, I've got the coffee: Lessons from it-sa

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. 

I'm just back from an interesting and demanding week of booth duty at it-sa Expo&Congress in Nuremberg, where Talos had a Point of Demonstration at the Cisco booth.

Bring a tent, I've got the coffee: Lessons from it-sa

I personally see it-sa as the German or European counterpart to the RSA Conference in San Francisco, with a slightly different center of gravity in at least two dimensions. 

First, the expo is the main event, not the congress. The congress is organized by associations, industry groups, and exhibitors, and plays more of a supporting role. Second, the focus is more local and European. Major topics were (of course) AI for defense tooling, securing AI systems themselves, and post-quantum cryptography. And here comes the local touch (in my opinion): digital sovereignty and regulatory compliance, with NIS2, CRA, and DORA. 

But local doesn't translate to small, or to the city of Nuremberg. With more than 1,000 exhibitors and 33,000 visitors from 70 countries over three days of exhibition, preceded by a congress day, it was huge. Even as a trade show veteran, I was overwhelmed. 

My conversations at the booth had a different focus, though. It was a lot of chatter about vulnerabilities like php2shell or broccoli2shell and state-sponsored actors, but again with a local touch: education.  

I was very surprised how many teenagers stopped by to ask for advice. Here in Germany, you mainly have two paths for your career. One is the university route, and the other is vocational (apprenticeship). Across all industries the split is roughly 50/50, while in IT it is more like 80% university, 20% apprenticeship. The common minimum age to start university is 18, while it is 16 for apprenticeships. Reality is way more complex, but the details don’t matter for the point I want to make. 

For university opportunities in cyber, I count close to 30 bachelor programs. For apprenticeships, I count ZERO. There is the "IT Specialist" (Fachinformatiker), but it only has specializations like application development, system integration, digital networking, or data and process analysis. That is why an initiative exists to get an "IT Security" specialization going. 

Even the degree route is thin. There are no official statistics, but my guess is 800 to 900 graduates a year, compared to a demand of more than 100,000. We need a second route into the field for the 16-year-old who finished various CTFs or Hack the Box challenges and wants to join the good side now. Honestly speaking, I would rather have them on our side of the fence at 16 than wonder at 26 where they ended up. 

How does it look in your country? 

On a personal note: If you consider visiting it-sa in 2027, book your accommodation early. The hotels are gone fast. That is the one downside, because Nuremberg isn't exactly a city with the infrastructure for more than 30,000 visitors. (Don't ask me how I learned that there are also camping spots close to the exhibition area.)

Bring a tent, I've got the coffee: Lessons from it-sa

See you in Nuremberg next year. Bring a tent, just in case. I've got the coffee.

The one big thing  

Cisco Talos recently discovered VOLTA, a mature, self-deleting Windows infostealer that uses AI to act as a personal intelligence analyst for cybercriminals. After harvesting a massive haul of credentials, sessions, and cryptocurrency wallets, VOLTA sends a structured evidence bundle to a large language model to rank the victim’s assets by monetization value. The malware even uses stolen session access to enrich this data, searching the victim's emails for purchase receipts to corroborate home addresses. If an AI model refuses to perform the target assessment, VOLTA seamlessly fails over to a multi-model chain to ensure the attackers get their prioritized dossier. 

Why do I care? 

VOLTA replaces the manual work of data sorting with automated, AI-driven victim profiling. By letting an LLM determine a target's worth, attackers drastically reduce the human effort required to monetize stolen data. This commoditized threat allows even low-level actors to bypass security measures like Chrome's App-Bound Encryption and receive ranked target assessments, escalating the risk of severe follow-on attacks. 

So now what? 

Organizations should implement application control policies to restrict or alert on processes launching Chrome with the --headless flag. Defenders must also enforce best practices for storing credentials in hardware-backed stores.  

Revoke any potentially compromised tokens and change passwords. For cryptocurrency wallets, if the seed phrase was in plaintext on disk, treat the wallet as fully compromised and migrate funds to a new wallet with a seed generated on an air-gapped device. For more information and sample details, read the full blog. 

Top security headlines of the week 

AI agents used by Railway breach systems of rival Primcloud
This one is juicy. According to Primcloud’s founder, Railway’s agents used credentials from inside their own application’s containers to request every secret from Primcloud customers and employees and then twice port-scanned all 65,536 addresses on the company’s network. (Security Boulevard) (X)

Europe on alert after supermarket freezers hit by cyber-attacks in 10 countries
A significant increase in freezer temperature has forced retailers to discard food in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, and Sweden. Beyond supermarkets, cold storage for French plasma stock were affected, as well. (BBC) (The Register) 

Binance reveals how fake job interviews and AI tool abuse led to $6.43B theft 
Binance said the record-setting theft was the culmination of a "sophisticated, multi-stage campaign" that involved the use of a tampered Homebrew installation and recruitment-themed social engineering attack targeting two of its engineers. (The Hacker News) 

AI threats create urgent need to renew cybersecurity information-sharing law, businesses tell Congress 
After the law’s initial 10-year operating period expired in 2025, lawmakers passed several short-term extensions, with the latest one set to lapse on Dec. 11. Cybersecurity experts and industry leaders have repeatedly urged lawmakers to renew the law. (Cybersecurity Dive) 

Cops bust botnet of 1.3M infected Android TV boxes 
Security firms working with Japan’s National Police Agency has disrupted XCPE, a backdoor used to build a massive botnet comprising more than 1.3 million Android devices across more than 200 countries. (The Register) 

Can’t get enough Talos? 

The VOLTA infostealer: Outsourcing cybercrime grunt work to AI 
Ryan Fetterman breaks down the 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. 

Stealing AI secrets and breaking EDRs 
Phishing may have dropped from last quarter's highs, but ransomware engagements climbed as attackers shifted their focus toward disabling EDR systems and scraping AI credentials. The financial sector also returned as a top target. 

NIK C2: The new AI-enabled command-and-control framework 
NIK C2 contains a Windows implant, using which, an actor can dump credentials, stream the victim's keystrokes to collect the targeted victim’s sensitive data, and instruct an integrated AI model to analyze the harvested data, all within the compromised session. 

Upcoming events where you can find Talos 

Most prevalent malware files from Talos telemetry over the past week  

SHA256: 9f1f11a708d393e0a4109ae189bc64f1f3e312653dcf317a2bd406f18ffcc507 
MD5: 2915b3f8b703eb744fc54c81f4a9c67f 
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=9f1f11a708d393e0a4109ae189bc64f1f3e312653dcf317a2bd406f18ffcc507 
Example Filename: sample.exe 
Detection Name: W32.9F1F11A708-100.SBX.TG 

SHA256: 73a25ff8893260418c2271b863c567e40e842adbab3c57023cb72de590ea377d 
MD5: 0cf0271c3564881fce95f44c649bd745 
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=73a25ff8893260418c2271b863c567e40e842adbab3c57023cb72de590ea377d 
Example Filename: KMSAuto++.exe 
Detection Name: HackTool:WZTeam-tpd 

SHA256: a31f222fc283227f5e7988d1ad9c0aecd66d58bb7b4d8518ae23e110308dbf91 
MD5: 7bdbd180c081fa63ca94f9c22c457376 
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=a31f222fc283227f5e7988d1ad9c0aecd66d58bb7b4d8518ae23e110308dbf91 
Example Filename: d4aa3e7010220ad1b458fac17039c274_62_Exe.exe 
Detection Name: Win.Dropper.Miner::95.sbx.tg** 

SHA256: f4b1f888f29faa7fbec180f42bdc78596e8a8b908c0a6e6c419933703c81df85 
MD5: 95a6a4b638cfdfbe3afc883d593a1f87 
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=f4b1f888f29faa7fbec180f42bdc78596e8a8b908c0a6e6c419933703c81df85 
Example Filename: f4b1f888f29faa7fbec180f42bdc78596e8a8b908c0a6e6c419933703c81df85.js 
Detection Name: W32.F4B1F888F2-95.SBX.TG 

SHA256: 7fc50b69b56bfdfa9fc0a3e088ff13904587d6336a51e9edcc7919cba83d4e3f 
MD5: cca616647db9370c88998ae25da6997f 
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=7fc50b69b56bfdfa9fc0a3e088ff13904587d6336a51e9edcc7919cba83d4e3f 
Example Filename: cca616647db9370c88998ae25da6997f.exe 
Detection Name: Win.Tool.Kmsauto::1201 

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  • The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation Thorsten Rosendahl
    Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I've been following a lot of (sometimes heated) threads and discussions lately about the current vulnerability landscape. I learned new words/phrases such as Summer of Hell (although I'm writing this with 1°C/34°F outside), Vulnpocalypse, Bugmageddon, Bugpocalypse, Breachpocalypse... Let's look at some numbers:We crossed the 70k mark, and it's only the end of September. This has never been seen before — I think we can agree this num
     

The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation

15 de Outubro de 2026, 15:00
The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. 

I've been following a lot of (sometimes heated) threads and discussions lately about the current vulnerability landscape. I learned new words/phrases such as Summer of Hell (although I'm writing this with 1°C/34°F outside), Vulnpocalypse, Bugmageddon, Bugpocalypse, Breachpocalypse... 

Let's look at some numbers:

The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation

We crossed the 70k mark, and it's only the end of September. This has never been seen before — I think we can agree this number is skyrocketing. Also, CVE numbering organically grew into the six-digit range. Check your tooling. Some might say we broke that barrier already in 2014 (CVE-2014-125110), or even hit seven digits in 2015 (CVE-2015-1000013), but those were allocated artificially. (History note: Before 2014, 9999 was the highest possible identifier.) 

So that could be seen as the apocalypse argument. On the other hand, we have the KEV numbers:

The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation

They didn't explode... yet? Counting by sheer volume, YoY, CVEs increased by 105%, while KEV only grew 37%. Sounds huge at first, but following a 30% increase from 2024 to 2025, that's less dramatic — a counter-argument of sorts.

The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation

CVEs from 2025 or older still account for 33%. In other words, a good third of the KEVs are suggesting there is a patch gap. Looking at the 2026 CVEs, the share where the publication date matches the date added to KEV is 29%, which is only 2% more than (all of) 2025. Acknowledging this "math" is not the whole ball of wax, but it still tells me we are not living in a zero-day apocalypse right now. There’s also a slight uptick in networking gear-related CVEs, to 27%.

This is the second time I'll ask you to check your tooling. A new column, “forensicTriage,” was added to the KEV to flag which high-risk vulnerabilities require mandatory forensic triage and incident response workflows. You can read more about it in BOD 26-04, or the Implementation Guidance. 

So where does that leave us? The CVE numbers alone — that +70k mark, now that Q3 is behind us — make a decent case for Vulnpocalypse, or whichever name you prefer. That part of the story is real. But discovery isn't exploitation, and that gap is exactly what the KEV numbers remind us of. Vendors seem to be keeping pace too, at least partially — KEV is growing, just not nearly at CVE's speed, which on its own would almost be good news. 

Where the story breaks down is on the practical side. More than a third of actively exploited vulnerabilities still trace back to 2025 or earlier. Patch debt doesn't care how many new apocalypse-themed hashtags we invent. 

So, panic? I still don't think so. Relax? Definitely not either. Somewhere between the two is where the real work sits — chipping away at that backlog, one legacy system at a time. Maybe by next quarter it'll feel less like Bugmageddon and more like business as usual. Or maybe I won't even need a warmer jacket for the upcoming "Winter of Hell."

The one big thing  

Cisco Talos and Recorded Future’s Insikt Group are disclosing new espionage activity from UAT-6275 targeting government and critical infrastructure across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Thanks to the threat actor's own operational security lapses, researchers gained direct visibility into their infrastructure and malware development. We observed four distinct infection chains delivering custom reverse shells via macro-enabled documents, GitHub-hosted scripts, and a WinRAR vulnerability. 

Why do I care? 

Regional government and critical infrastructure entities are actively being targeted for diplomatic and economic intelligence. UAT-6275 is consistently evolving its tradecraft, abusing legitimate platforms like GitHub to host payloads and deploying lightweight reverse shells. Furthermore, recovered tooling suggests the group is preparing to expand its reach into Linux hosts and internet-facing appliances. 

So now what? 

Defenders in targeted regions and sectors should monitor for unexpected PowerShell activity and payload downloads originating from public services like GitHub. It is also critical to watch for suspicious scheduled tasks and unauthorized changes to the Windows Startup folder, which this group uses for persistence. Finally, ensure archive utilities are fully patched to prevent exploit-assisted delivery. ClamAV signatures and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to detect this threat can be found in the full blog post. 

Top security headlines of the week 

Hackers heat supermarket fridges to 50°C in France cyber attack 
The attack began overnight from Sunday to Monday. The unknown attackers reportedly abused the defrosting function in older control software, setting some equipment to heat continuously, with temperatures said to have reached 50°C. (Hack Read) 

Ivanti zero-day chain gave attackers root access to fully patched VPN 
CVE-2026-104935 affects Ivanti Connect Secure and it can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges. (SecurityWeek) 

U.S. arrests two in crackdown on North Korean IT worker laptop farms
As part of the scheme, which allegedly ran between 2019 and July 2025, the two housed and configured laptops issued by victim U.S. companies so ITWs would appear to work from the U.S. (SecurityWeek) 

Canadian cybersecurity executive arrested in U.S. federal extortion case 
While the FBI did not publicly announce Dubrovsky’s arrest, the case appears to align with actions taken in the wake of the ShinyHunters’ attack on the FBI’s IT systems, which exposed personal data about thousands of bureau employees. (CyberScoop) 

Maximum-severity SSRF flaw in SonicWall SMA devices under attack 
The vulnerability, which SonicWall assigned a maximum 10 out of 10 CVSS score, stems from an "unintended alternate access path," according to the vendor's advisory. (Dark Reading) 

Can’t get enough Talos? 

You've got to lurk before you can smirk 
How do you get under a cybercriminal’s skin? Sometimes you expose their operations. Sometimes you make every step through a network painfully slow. And sometimes, if you’re Azim, you join a dark web forum where they’re insulting you, and help them to do it. 

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2026 
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for October 2026, which includes 1,415 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 85 that Microsoft marked as "critical." 

One breach, please, and make no mistakes 
The cybersecurity community has seen examples of autonomous agents, built inside AI labs, attacking public infrastructure. How you prepare for agentic threats is what makes the difference during real incidents. 

Upcoming events where you can find Talos 

Most prevalent malware files from Talos telemetry over the past week  

SHA256: 9f1f11a708d393e0a4109ae189bc64f1f3e312653dcf317a2bd406f18ffcc507  
MD5: 2915b3f8b703eb744fc54c81f4a9c67f  
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=9f1f11a708d393e0a4109ae189bc64f1f3e312653dcf317a2bd406f18ffcc507 
Example Filename: sample.exe  
Detection Name: W32.9F1F11A708-100.SBX.TG** 

SHA256: 73ac1bbfaee6c76c34f655ac0477a4cd930f2aa55e658c8e312ff81aac9a741f 
MD5: 63f3351cfdf618bec6045f60203e7978  
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=73ac1bbfaee6c76c34f655ac0477a4cd930f2aa55e658c8e312ff81aac9a741f 
Example Filename: f_00478d.exe 
Detection Name: W32.PUP:PulseBrowser.29kh.in12.Talos 

SHA256: 58d6fec4ba24c32d38c9a0c7c39df3cb0e91f500b323e841121d703c7b718681 
MD5: f1fe671bcefd4630e5ed8b87c9283534 
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=58d6fec4ba24c32d38c9a0c7c39df3cb0e91f500b323e841121d703c7b718681 
Example Filename: KMSAuto Net.exe 
Detection Name: W32.58D6FEC4BA-95.SBX.TG 

SHA256: fed979f93bcaf4e73ebd25748093a92095d5109cbd01d55f97bdc50ce509ad2f 
MD5: 207d9d891ac756b2bfad88aba5682c65 
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=fed979f93bcaf4e73ebd25748093a92095d5109cbd01d55f97bdc50ce509ad2f 
Example Filename: sample.exe 
Detection Name: W32.FED979F93B-95.SBX.TG 

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  • Don’t swing at everything Thorsten Rosendahl
    Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Lately I've found myself thinking a lot about the Australian TV series Mr. Inbetween (IMDb 8.7/10) — not because I'm a hitman for hire, but because I literally feel in-between. Specifically, in-between what I'd call the "pre-Mythos" and “post-Mythos” eras. We've crossed a capability threshold, and it's not just one model family driving that — Codex 5.3 and GPT-5.5 deliver comparable or better performance, and Tulongfeng or GLM-5.2 (
     

Don’t swing at everything

23 de Julho de 2026, 15:00
Don’t swing at everything

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. 

Lately I've found myself thinking a lot about the Australian TV series Mr. Inbetween (IMDb 8.7/10) — not because I'm a hitman for hire, but because I literally feel in-between. Specifically, in-between what I'd call the "pre-Mythos" and “post-Mythos” eras. We've crossed a capability threshold, and it's not just one model family driving that — Codex 5.3 and GPT-5.5 deliver comparable or better performance, and Tulongfeng or GLM-5.2 (an incredibly powerful open-weight model, MIT-licensed) show the frontier isn't limited to closed models anymore. 

On the other side of that line, real-world impact hasn't caught up yet and we're living in an artificial buffer zone. For me, defining the “pre-” and “post-” status comes down to the gap between "vulnerability discovery" and "vulnerability publication." 

Last week’s Patch Tuesday gave a signal of change, as Joe pointed out, so maybe the buffer zone has come to an end. 

Let's dive into the 2026 Q2 stats.

Don’t swing at everything

As in past years, we're seeing a steeper curve than the year before — a solid 49% YoY growth, though still not the hockey-stick moment I keep waiting for. By the end of June we were tracking close to 200 CVEs per day. 

Using the keyword methodology described here, I found 452 AI-related CVEs this calendar year. If "openclaw" is added to the keyword list, that number jumps by another 536 — a reminder that these counts are sensitive to keyword drift. Given how much the keyword list keeps changing, I'm reconsidering whether to keep publishing this particular metric going forward.

Don’t swing at everything

KEVs, by contrast, "only" grew 13% — a small April spike aside, it's fairly flat relative to total CVE growth. Networking-gear-related CVEs continued their climb, now accounting for 24% of KEV-related vulnerabilities (up from 20% in Q1) — consistent with the trend I flagged last quarters.

Don’t swing at everything

As in previous quarters, CVEs from 2024 or earlier still make up about 24% of everything we're tracking. More strikingly, even though the standard enterprise patch cycle is described  to run 30–90 days, 181 days into 2026, 46% of today's actively-exploited (KEV) CVEs still trace back to 2025 or earlier. 

Old vulnerabilities don't retire, new ones keep arriving, and machine-speed vulnerability discovery is going to keep outpacing human-speed patching. Which brings me back — once again — to EPSS as a tool for prioritizing patching against this dataset.

Don’t swing at everything

If you patched purely by CVSS 9+, you'd be urgently chasing ~3,700 CVEs — but 95% of those sit below 5% EPSS, meaning the real-world odds of exploitation are tiny. 

Of the 32 CVSS 9+ CVEs with EPSS ≥ 50%, 25 are already on CISA's KEV list. The remaining seven outliers are still high-probability by EPSS but haven't made KEV yet — worth watching. 

Ray Shoesmith (Mr. Inbetween) once told his therapist, "You know, if I hit somebody, I generally got a pretty good reason." 

Same principle applies to patching. Don't swing at everything — swing at what you have good reason to believe is coming for you. 

The one big thing 

Cisco Talos has discovered "msaRAT," a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAT) deployed by the Chaos ransomware group. Built on the Tokio asynchronous runtime, it establishes a covert command-and-control (C2) channel by hijacking Chrome or Edge browsers via the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). The infection starts with a deceptive MSI file masquerading as a Windows update that loads the payload directly into memory, paving the way for ransomware deployment. 

Why do I care? 

This RAT is a master of evasion, living off the browser to build its C2 infrastructure without ever directly touching the network. By routing traffic through legitimate browser processes and trusted services, msaRAT easily bypasses traditional network-based detections. Additionally, its use of the Tokio runtime enables highly efficient, parallel execution of malicious tasks, accelerating the attacker's ability to establish persistence and deploy double-extortion ransomware. 

So now what? 

Defenders should monitor for unusual curl commands, especially those downloading MSI files to the ProgramData directory or sending plain HTTP traffic over port 443. Scrutinize unexpected MSI files impersonating Windows updates and watch for unauthorized Chrome or Edge manipulation. Finally, implement behavioral monitoring to catch Chrome DevTools Protocol abuse and unauthorized WebRTC connections. Read the full blog for complete coverage and indicators of compromise (IOCs). 

Top security headlines of the week 

Introducing Antares: Highly efficient open weight AI models for vulnerability localization 
This week, Cisco introduced Antares, a family of security small language models (SLMs) purpose-built for pinpointing where known vulnerabilities exist within a codebase. (Cisco) 

Hacker wipes European country’s entire land registry database, paralyzing real-estate market 
A hacker wiped Romania’s entire land registry database after an unsuccessful extortion attempt. The attack halted all property transactions, preventing notaries from authenticating sales or registering mortgages nationwide. (Cybernews) 

"WP2Shell” opens millions of WordPress sites to remote takeover 
Barely three days after disclosure, attackers are widely chaining together CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 to lob exploit attempts against one of the largest attack surfaces on the Internet. (DarkReading) 

Progress tells ShareFile customers to shut down Storage Zone Controllers over security threat  
Only the Storage Zone Controller is affected, not standard cloud-only ShareFile accounts. The controller is a server that a company runs itself, so files can stay on its own storage while it still uses ShareFile's cloud to share and manage them. (The Hacker News) 

Microsoft SharePoint under attack via new exploit 
Researchers warned that patching is not enough to address the deserialization flaw and that security teams “should rotate credentials on any assets that may have been exposed.” (Cybersecurity Dive) 

Can’t get enough Talos? 

[Video] Where protection starts: Cisco Talos Intelligence Integrations 
Every day, defenders make high-consequence decisions with incomplete information. Learn how Cisco Talos Intelligence Integrations help reduce uncertainty by turning the latest threat intelligence into proactive protections across Cisco technologies. 

The Hunter's Paradox: Is it time to embrace automated threat hunting? 
Humans can no longer keep up with the volume and velocity of security data on their own, but AI can't be fully trusted. David discusses the merits of both and what the future might look like. 

The serpent’s tongue: Luring the Python out of its den 
Protect your development environment from rising Python supply-chain threats by understanding the package installation lifecycle and implementing these essential defensive strategies. 

Keeping up with the cybercriminals 
In this episode of Beers with Talos, Hazel, Bill, Dave and Joe are joined by Kendall McKay to dive into the soap opera of modern cybercrime. Turns out, every ransomware operation is one passive-aggressive group chat message away from falling apart. 

Upcoming events where you can find Talos 

Most prevalent malware files from Talos telemetry over the past week 

SHA256: 9f1f11a708d393e0a4109ae189bc64f1f3e312653dcf317a2bd406f18ffcc507  
MD5: 2915b3f8b703eb744fc54c81f4a9c67f  
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=9f1f11a708d393e0a4109ae189bc64f1f3e312653dcf317a2bd406f18ffcc507  
Example Filename: VID001.exe  
Detection Name: Win.Worm.Coinminer::1201** 

SHA256: 9896a6fcb9bb5ac1ec5297b4a65be3f647589adf7c37b45f3f7466decd6a4a7f  
MD5: 38de5b216c33833af710e88f7f64fc98  
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=9896a6fcb9bb5ac1ec5297b4a65be3f647589adf7c37b45f3f7466decd6a4a7f  
Example Filename: SECOH-QAD.exe  
Detection Name: Win.Tool.Procpatcher::1201 

SHA256: e60ab99da105ee27ee09ea64ed8eb46d8edc92ee37f039dbc3e2bb9f587a33ba  
MD5: dbd8dbecaa80795c135137d69921fdba  
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=e60ab99da105ee27ee09ea64ed8eb46d8edc92ee37f039dbc3e2bb9f587a33ba  
Example Filename: u165714.dat  
Detection Name: W32.Variant:MalwareXgenMisc.29d4.1201 

SHA256: 633bd79d1efd3730234d907a2a0d98e3e253a5f0e222e4e4bf3badb3fd6aea0a  
MD5: 770dbe473180366d7b539ff2c188e551  
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=633bd79d1efd3730234d907a2a0d98e3e253a5f0e222e4e4bf3badb3fd6aea0a  
Example Filename: server_tcp.exe  
Detection Name: W32.Trojan.27oc.1201 

SHA256: 90b1456cdbe6bc2779ea0b4736ed9a998a71ae37390331b6ba87e389a49d3d59 
MD5: c2efb2dcacba6d3ccc175b6ce1b7ed0a 
Talos Rep: https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=90b1456cdbe6bc2779ea0b4736ed9a998a71ae37390331b6ba87e389a49d3d59  
Example Filename: tmp00055df5.dll  
Detection Name: Auto.90B145.282358.in02 

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