INTEL_REPORT
Cisco Talos Blog · published 7/16/2026, 6:00:50 PM · TLP amber
Summary
Ingested excerpt (first ~500 chars of normalized text).
Begun, the Patch Wars have Long foretold, the Great Patching has begun and it’s a doozy. Buckle in as Joe takes you through the story. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  We all knew, to some degree or another, that this summer was going to a hot mess. I don’t mean FIFA drama or record setting heat waves. I mean the slow but steady momentum that AI frontier models were accruing for vulnerability research. If you were like me, …
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/begun-the-patch-wars-have
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What we pulled out
Deterministic extractor (IOC + allowlisted tokens + ATT&CK IDs present in DB).
Indicators
Linked with report → mentions → indicator. Values open the indicator workspace.
| Type | Value | Link |
|---|---|---|
| domain | talosintelligence.com | Open → |
| domain | vid001.exe | Open → |
| domain | win.worm.coinminer | Open → |
| url | https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=9f1f11a708d393e0a4109ae189bc64f1f3e312653dcf317a2bd406f18ffcc507 | Open → |
| url | https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=90b1456cdbe6bc2779ea0b4736ed9a998a71ae37390331b6ba87e389a49d3d59 | Open → |
| md5 | 2915b3f8b703eb744fc54c81f4a9c67f |
Malware families
Allowlist token matches only.
Threat actors mentioned
Allowlist mentions — not a formal attribution verdict.
ATT&CK techniques
MITRE IDs referenced in text and present in local technique table.
CONTINUE INVESTIGATION
High-signal pivots without leaving the thread you started in search.
Browse the report corpus.
Neighborhood from the first linked indicator.
| md5 | c2efb2dcacba6d3ccc175b6ce1b7ed0a | Open → |
| sha256 | 9f1f11a708d393e0a4109ae189bc64f1f3e312653dcf317a2bd406f18ffcc507 | Open → |
| sha256 | 90b1456cdbe6bc2779ea0b4736ed9a998a71ae37390331b6ba87e389a49d3d59 | Open → |
| domain | mshta.exe | Open → |
| domain | win.tool.procpatcher | Open → |
| url | https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=9896a6fcb9bb5ac1ec5297b4a65be3f647589adf7c37b45f3f7466decd6a4a7f | Open → |
| md5 | 38de5b216c33833af710e88f7f64fc98 | Open → |
| sha256 | 9896a6fcb9bb5ac1ec5297b4a65be3f647589adf7c37b45f3f7466decd6a4a7f | Open → |
| domain | secoh-qad.exe | Open → |
| domain | tmp00055df5.dll | Open → |
| domain | w32.b8be9a5e0a-95.sbx.tg | Open → |
| url | https://talosintelligence.com/talos_file_reputation?s=b8be9a5e0a191050f9099c11c155b436863e9bc43bc904cdb842e249679aa35a | Open → |
| md5 | 0398df5a18f71efcfeef4571a2cef577 | Open → |
| sha256 | b8be9a5e0a191050f9099c11c155b436863e9bc43bc904cdb842e249679aa35a | Open → |