Threat Source newsletter for July 16, 2020

Threat Source newsletter for July 16, 2020
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers.If you haven’t already, we highly recommend you read our in-depth research paper on election security. This paper represents four years of hands-on research, interviews and insight into how things have changed since 2016, and what hurdles remain to secure American elections. 

This is just the first release in a series of papers, blog posts and more that we’ll be releasing in the leadup to the November general election. Stay tuned for more.

Microsoft dominated the headlines otherwise this week, disclosing a critical vulnerability in DNS for Windows servers. We also had a hand in discovering six critical vulnerabilities in the Hyper-V engine. Check out our blog post for the full breakdown and Snort rules.


Upcoming public engagements


Event: "High-speed fingerprint cloning: Myth or reality?” at BSides PortugalLocation: Streaming onlineDate: July 23Speakers: Paul Rascagneres and Vitor VenturaSynopsis: Users often rely on devices’ fingerprint scanners to unlock their devices, including smartphones, laptops and tablets. But how safe are these features, really? Talos researchers set out to see if they could trick this technology into accepting artificially replicated fingerprints — an attack method that adversaries would not shy away from using. In this talk, Paul and Vitor will cover their findings in this experiment. 

Cyber Security Week in Review



Officials from the U.S., U.K. and Canada jointly blamed a Russian state-sponsored actor for allegedly trying to steal information related to the development of COVID-19 ..

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