The latest release includes 14 new rules and six new shared object rules.
This release includes several new rules to protect against the Hakbit ransomware attack that researchers discovered last month. Hakbit, so far, has targeted numerous organizations in Europe via phishing emails with malicious Excel files attached.
There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.
Talos's rule release:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-chrome, malware-cnc, malware-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.You can subscribe to Talos' newest rule detection functionality for as low as $29 a year with a personal account. Be sure and see our business pricing as well here. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats.