Talos Takes Ep. 122: Year in Review & Ukraine Activities
Summary: Cisco Talos released a Year in Review report covering 2022, drawing on a broad set of data and intelligence sources to identify key trends, and this Talos Takes episode features Kendall McKay discussing those findings and the team's activities in Ukraine. The source also notes that in 2025 attackers increasingly targeted weaknesses in multi-factor authentication workflows and used valid, compromised credentials to send phishing lures from trusted accounts.
Bottom line: The 2025 findings point to attacks built on trust rather than broken technology: compromised but valid credentials and gaps in MFA workflows mean a familiar sender or a completed prompt is no longer evidence that a request is legitimate.
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