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Talos Takes

Cisco Talos

Every two weeks, host Amy Ciminnisi brings on a new guest from Talos or the broader Cisco Security world to break down a complicated security topic. We cover everything from breaking news to attacker trends and emerging threats.

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243 episodes

  1. The VOLTA infostealer: Outsourcing cybercrime grunt work to AI 20:29
  2. Hardening your environment: From segmentation to AI kill switches 20:44
  3. Honey, I Trapped the Adversary 21:12
  4. ClickFix, EtherHiding, and the rise of malicious code in the blockchain 18:50
  5. Browser betrayal: When your tabs turn against you 26:37
  6. Back-to-school cybersecurity: Protecting education networks from ransomware and threats 23:07
  7. Don't scan that! QR code phishing and cloud-native threats 22:25
  8. Q2 Talos IR Trends: Phishing and authentication abuse spike 15:50
  9. ARToken: How attackers are bypassing MFA and maintaining access 18:08
  10. From evasion to detection: A guide to analyzing COM-based threats 18:56
  11. Patching in the dark: Managing unknown threats in complex environments 23:15
  12. When synthetic logs don’t lie: Generating coherent attack stories for better detection 19:29
  13. The trust paradox: How attackers weaponize legitimate SaaS platforms 20:51
  14. It's not you, it's your printer: State-sponsored and phishing threats in 2025 28:51
  15. 2025's ransomware trends and zombie vulnerabilities 22:08
  16. Cybersecurity’s double-header: 2025 insights from Talos and Splunk 31:56
  17. Modernizing your threat hunt 23:04
  18. Holding the line: Service provider security 29:12
  19. IR Trends Q4 2025: Ransomware chills and phishing heats up 13:57
  20. Cracking the code: What encryption can (and can’t) do for you 27:51
  21. Cybersecurity certifications and you 27:51
  22. 2015 vs 2025: What the Last Decade of Threats Taught Us 45:20
  23. When You’re Told “No Budget”: The Blueprint for Staying Secure 24:08
  24. How Attackers Use Your Own Tools Against You (IR trends Q3 2025) 11:21
  25. Passwordless Security: Debunking the Biggest Myths 15:08
  26. You Can't Patch Burnout: When Cybersecurity Takes a Toll 47:21
  27. Tampered Chef: When Malvertising Serves Up Infostealers 11:22
  28. Inside the Black Hat NOC: Lessons in Securing One of the Wildest Networks 23:05
  29. Breaking Down Chaos: Tactics and Origins of a New RaaS Operation 15:33
  30. Why Attackers Love Your Remote Access Tools 14:22
  31. Teaching LLMs to spot malicious PowerShell scripts 16:16
  32. How cybercriminals are camouflaging threats as fake AI tool installers 17:05
  33. Inside the attack chain: A new methodology for tracking compartmentalized threats 16:29
  34. Follow the motive: Rethinking defense against Initial Access Groups 16:38
  35. Year in Review special pt. 4: How AI is influencing the threat landscape? 32:19
  36. Year in Review special part 3: Identity and MFA attacks 22:58
  37. Year in Review special part 2: The biggest ransomware trends 18:41
  38. Year in Review special part 1: vulnerabilities, email threats, and adversary tooling 18:15
  39. A blueprint for protecting major events 13:43
  40. Why attackers are using hidden text salting to evade email filters 9:59
  41. How to establish a threat intelligence program (Cisco Live EMEA preview) 16:01
  42. Web shell frenzies, the first appearance of Interlock, and why hackers have the worst cybersecurity: IR Trends Q4 2024 13:59
  43. Exploring vulnerable Windows drivers 15:24
  44. It's the 35th anniversary of ransomware - let's talk about the major shifts and changes 23:28
  45. Unwrapping the emerging Interlock ransomware attack 15:02
  46. It's Taplunk! Talos and Splunk threat researchers meet to put the security world to rights 50:38
  47. The biggest takeaways from Talos IR's new report: New ransomware variants, EDR tool uninstallation, and password spray attacks increasing 15:26
  48. How Talos IR and Splunk are teaming up 21:21
  49. Why the BlackByte ransomware group may be more active than we initially thought 9:21
  50. AI, critical infrastructure dominate conversation at Hacker Summer Camp 14:07