Podcast Episodes

Year in Review special part 3: Identity and MFA attacks

Steven Leung from Cisco Duo joins Hazel to discuss the prevalence of identity-based attacks, why they're happening, and the various methods attackers are using to circumvent MFA (Multi-Factor Authent…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Year in Review special part 2: The biggest ransomware trends

Azim Khodjibaev and Lexi DiScola join Hazel to discuss some of the most prolific ransomware groups (and why LockBit may end this year very differently to how they ended 2024). They also discuss the d…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Year in Review special part 1: vulnerabilities, email threats, and adversary tooling

Talos researchers Martin Lee and Thorsten Rosendahl join Hazel for the first of our dedicated episodes on the top findings from Talos' 2024 Year in Review. We discuss the vulnerabilities that attacke…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

A blueprint for protecting major events

Have you ever wondered what it takes to put on a major event like a World Cup or the Olympics, and all the cybersecurity and threat intelligence that needs to be done beforehand? Today’s episode is a…

Published on 7 months ago

Why attackers are using hidden text salting to evade email filters

In this episode Hazel chats with Omid Mirzaei, a security research lead in the email threat research team at Cisco Talos. 

Omid and several Talos teammates recently released a blog on hidden text salt…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

How to establish a threat intelligence program (Cisco Live EMEA preview)

It's an European takeover this week, as Hazel sits down with Talos EMEA threat researchers Martin Lee and Thorsten Rosendahl. They're heading to Cisco Live EMEA next week (February 9-14) to deliver a…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Web shell frenzies, the first appearance of Interlock, and why hackers have the worst cybersecurity: IR Trends Q4 2024

Joe Marshall and Craig Jackson join Hazel to discuss the biggest takeaways from Cisco Talos Incident Response's latest Quarterly Trends report. This time the spotlight is on web shells and targeted w…

Published on 8 months ago

Exploring vulnerable Windows drivers

Hazel sits down with Vanja Svajcer from Talos' threat research team. Vanja is a prolific malware hunter and this time he's here to talk about vulnerable Windows drivers. We've been covering these dri…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

It's the 35th anniversary of ransomware - let's talk about the major shifts and changes

Ransomware is 35 years old this month, which isn't exactly something to celebrate. But in any case, do join Hazel and special guest Martin Lee to discuss what happened in the very first ransomware in…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Unwrapping the emerging Interlock ransomware attack

Chetan Raghuprasad is our guest today as he breaks down the relatively new Interlock ransomware attack. Cisco Talos Incident Response recently observed this attacker conducting big-game hunting and d…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago