Something to Read When You Are On Call and Everyone Else is at the Office Party

This Talos Threat Source newsletter outlines the growing abuse of compromised consumer and IoT devices to create proxy networks for obfuscating malicious traffic, summarizes recent security headlines (election-related cyber activity in Romania, disruption of criminal encrypted messaging, and the arrest of a suspected ransomware actor), and provides several malware SHA256 hashes and filenames observed in telemetry along with mitigation advice (patching, credential hygiene, and zero-trust/MFA).