Year In Review
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April 28, 2026 09:23
Five defender priorities from the Talos Year in Review
With attackers moving faster than ever, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. This blog breaks down five practical priorities from the Cisco Talos 2025 Year in Review to help defenders focus and prioritize, amidst all the noise.
April 21, 2026 08:00
Phishing and MFA exploitation: Targeting the keys to the kingdom
In 2025, attackers increasingly targeted weaknesses in multi-factor authentication (MFA) workflows, and phishing attacks leveraged valid, compromised credentials to launch lures from trusted accounts. The trends focused entirely on trust, or the lack thereof, in everyday business operations.
April 7, 2026 06:00
Year in Review: Vulnerabilities old and new and something React2
The year was characterized by an unending beat-down on infrastructure that relied on older enmeshed dependencies (e.g., Log4j and PHPUnit), while React2Shell rocketed to the highest percentage of attacks for the entire year within the last three weeks of 2025.
April 29, 2025 05:47
Year in Review: AI based threats
2024 wasn't the year that AI rewrote the cybercrime playbook — but it did turbocharge some of the old tricks. Read this summary of AI-based threats, from Talos' 2024 Year in Review.
April 15, 2025 05:50
Year in Review: The biggest trends in ransomware
This week, our Year in Review spotlight is on ransomware—where low-profile tactics led to high-impact consequences. Download our 2 page ransomware summary, or watch our 55 second video.
March 31, 2025 07:00
Beers with Talos: Year in Review episode
In this podcast, Joe, Hazel, Bill and Dave break down Talos' Year in Review 2024 and discuss how and why cybercriminals have been leaning so heavily on attacks that are routed in stealth in simplicity.
March 31, 2025 05:53
Available now: 2024 Year in Review
Download Talos' 2024 Year in Review now, and access key insights on the top targeted vulnerabilities of the year, network-based attacks, email threats, adversary toolsets, identity attacks, multi-factor authentication (MFA) abuse, ransomware and AI-based attacks.
December 11, 2023 05:48
Video: Talos 2023 Year in Review highlights
In this video, experts from across Cisco Talos came together to discuss the 2023 Talos Year in Review. We chat about what’s new, what’s stayed the same, and how the geopolitical environment has affected the threat landscape.
January 27, 2023 16:43
Talos Takes 126: Year in Review - Threat Landscape Edition
We're back with another year in review focused episode. This time I'm be joined by threat researcher Caitlin Huey. We discuss the general threat landscape in 2022 including dual use tools, lolbins, and the surprising re-emergence of USB attacks in 2022.
January 27, 2023 12:07
2022 Year in Review: Threat Landscape Livestream Replay
Did you miss our livestream covering the threat landscape section in the Cisco Talos Year in Review report? Join host Hazel Burton and special guests Caitlin Huey, Nick Biasini, and Tucker Favreau as they discuss Talos' findings and experiences monitoring the threat landscape in 2022.
January 10, 2023 15:11
2022 Year in Review: APTs Livestream Replay
Did you miss our livestream focused on the APT section in the Cisco Talos Year in Review report? Join host Mitch Neff and special guests Jacob Finn, Asheer Malhotra, and Vitor Ventura as they discuss Talos' findings and experiences tracking APTs in 2022.
January 10, 2023 09:24
APT Topic Summary Report: Cisco Talos Year in Review 2022
State-sponsored or state-aligned advanced persistent threats (APTs) adapted to the changing geopolitical landscape in 2022. Cisco Talos observed several offensive cyber campaigns linked to several groups stemming from Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and countries in the Indian subcontinent...
December 16, 2022 09:49
Talos Takes Ep. 122: Year in Review & Ukraine Activities
In this episode of Talos Takes we are joined by Kendall McKay to discuss the recently released year in review report and dig deep on our activities in Ukraine. The year in review covers a vast amount of data and intel sources to identify some of the key trends we observed in 2022.
December 14, 2022 12:00
Ukraine Topic Summary Report: Cisco Talos Year in Review 2022
Talos’ support for Ukraine has lead us to launch a task force to monitor critical infrastructure - identifying threats, remediating attacks, and gathering information. Discover the top adversaries, threats, and behavior trends Talos has observed this past year in Ukraine.
December 14, 2022 08:14
Beers with Talos Ep. 129: Talos Year in Review 2022 w/ Dave Liebenberg
We discuss the premiere Talos Year in Review report - a look back at the major threats, trends, and topics from 2022 and what we should take forward into 2023. Dave Liebenberg joins us to discuss *why* his team undertook this effort, and some of the finer points of the report findings.
December 14, 2022 08:12
Talos Year in Review 2022
We expect this data-driven story will shed some insight into Cisco’s and the security community’s most notable successes and remaining challenges. As these Year in Review reports continue in the future, we aim to help explain how the threat landscape changes from one year to the next.
December 8, 2022 11:03
2022 Year in Review Livestream
Did you miss our livestream focused on the Ukraine topics presented in the Cisco Talos Year in Review report? Join host Hazel Burton and special guests Kendall McKay, Nick Randolph, and Vanja Svajcer as they discuss Talos' now-years-long critical infrastructure effort in Ukraine.
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