William Largent

Kali Linux 2025.4 released with 3 new tools, desktop updates Kali Linux has released version 2025.4, its final update of the year, introducing three new tools, desktop environment improvements, and enhanced Wayland support.

Kali Linux has released version 2025.4, its final update of the year, introducing three new tools, desktop environment improvements, and enhanced Wayland support.

Put your cyber skills to the test with Talos’ 12 Days of Malware, featuring insights from Talos-driven research published throughout the year. Try to guess the threat actor or tool in as few clues as possible, and share how you did in the comments below: blog.talosintelligence.com/salt-typhoon...

"Out for LEC Maintenance - tech replies too many sharks to properly inspect. Will update tomorrow."

sitting next to a sweaty guy on a plane who just finished a workout at terminal 8 while wearing a shirt, tie, and suit

Stop Putting Your Passwords Into Random Websites (Yes, Seriously, You Are The Problem) Welcome to watchTowr vs the Internet, part 68. That feeling you’re experiencing? Dread. You should be used to it by now. As is fast becoming an unofficial and, apparently, frowned upon tradition - w...

watchTowr Labs has found thousands of secret tokens and credentials shared publicly on code formatting and beautification sites, such as JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify

labs.watchtowr.com/stop-putting...

***record scratch*** "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation..."

From a wave of ToolShell incidents, to a rise in post-exploitation phishing and the creative misuse of legitimate tools like Velociraptor, this episode of the TTP is packed with insights from Q3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7yV...

you need this in your life.

they won't even open betting lines for DNS as the RFO on these things.

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Save the date: Cisco Talos is hosting a live Reddit AMA on r/cybersecurity on October 30! Our team members will be on standby to answer your questions about our latest Incident Response Quarterly Trends Report, today’s threat landscape, and more.

Talos is serving up a special episode of Beers with Talos! VP Christopher Marshall (the “real Marshall,” much to Joe’s displeasure) joins Hazel, Bill, and Joe for a very real conversation about leading a large team when the world won’t stop moving: cs.co/63325AFR3x

gene kelly is antifa

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Boop. Always boop.

Trying to imagine the level of derangement in thinking Bob Dylan is cooler than Johnny Cash - and I just can't get there. Holy fucking dumbfuck. Even as clickbait garbage this is painfully stupid and Fasman is way too old to be cut any slack for this. Jettisoned to the sun.

Pearls firmly clutched.

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

This. Read this and repeat it over and over to yourself if you need to do so.

Look, I'm not going to say that this is a personal attack ...

... it is. This is a personal attack.

We’re halfway through 2025, and vulnerability reporting is evolving fast. Check out the latest Threat Source newsletter as Thorsten breaks down record CVE volumes and new reporting challenges: blog.talosintelligence.com/patch-track-...

A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials An imposter using AI to pose as Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.

Threat actor deepfakes Marco Rubio's voice to approach foreign officials on Signal

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Join us for a deep dive into how Cisco Talos uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in the AsIO3.sys driver powering ASUS Armory Crate: blog.talosintelligence.com/decrement-by...

Cisco Talos uncovered zero-day vulnerabilities in catdoc, plus vulnerabilities in Parallel, NVIDIA, and High-Logic FontCreator 15—all now patched:
blog.talosintelligence.com/catdoc-zero-...

GitHub - dest-3/Chronos: Time-Based Detection and Response for Safety-Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems - EDR Kernel Extension for FreeRTOS Time-Based Detection and Response for Safety-Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems - EDR Kernel Extension for FreeRTOS - dest-3/Chronos

Security researcher Michalis Antoniades has released Chronos, a kernel extension to support EDR-like capabilities on RTOS embedded systems

github.com/dest-3/Chronos

Cisco Talos’ 2024 Year in Review is available now! With visibility into more than 886 billion security events per day, the report features our key insights. Read the full report here: http://cs.co/63320FzuMG

Why We Need More Women and Intersectional Diversity in Cyber (And How to Get There) Representation matters in cybersecurity. Here’s why—and what we can do about it.

I really hate this archaic nonsense is still a part of the community - but this is a really good post from a couple of Splunk/SURGe folks.

I am so lucky to work on a team that is very diverse across the board but I am very aware that we are flying in the face of the norm.

From threat hunting, detection building, vulnerability discoveries and incident response, Cisco Talos shows up every day to try and make the internet a safer place. Watch our full overview here: http://cs.co/633280m3rs

"The PureCrypter malware found in this intrusion is a Windows dynamic-link library obfuscated with Eziriz’s .NET Reactor obfuscator. It has resources of encrypted binaries of legitimate DLLs, including Protobuf-net and Microsoft task scheduler DLL along with the TorNet backdoor. "