Threat Source newsletter for April 16, 2020
Summary: Cisco Talos' April 16, 2020 Threat Source newsletter reports that Microsoft's Patch Tuesday disclosed more than 100 vulnerabilities, more than a dozen of them rated critical. The newsletter also covers Talos' Incident Response quarterly recap for November 2019 through January 2020, its weekly Threat Roundup of top blocked threats, and research on the Aggah campaign, which pushes malware through malicious Microsoft Word documents.
What you should know: More than 100 vulnerabilities in a single Patch Tuesday, with more than a dozen critical, is a patching load most teams cannot clear before attackers begin probing for the unpatched. Talos also notes that commodity infections now escalate into enterprise-crippling ransomware costing organizations millions to recover, so the gap between a routine infection and a major loss is smaller than many assume.
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