Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 27 May – 2 June Backdoor discovered in hundreds of Gigabyte motherboards Cybersecurity researchers at Eclypsium discovered a secret backdoor in the firmware of hundreds of Gigabyte motherboard models, a well-known Taiwanese manufacturer. Every time...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing September 5-11 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft published on Tuesday its newsletter with updates for the month of September. In this new bulletin a total of 129 vulnerabilities have been corrected in 15...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 21-27 Qbot as a prelude to Egregor ransomware infections Researchers at Group-IB security company have issued a statement claiming to have found activity linking the Qbot banking trojan (also known as...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 19 – 23 June Critical vulnerabilities in Asus routers Asus has issued a security advisory addressing a total of nine vulnerabilities affecting multiple router models. Among these security flaws, the one registered as CVE-2022-26376,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Ways to Commit Now and Reveal Later Have you ever played rock, paper, scissors? I bet you have. Well, let’s put the tin lid on it: how would you play through the phone? One thing is...
ElevenPaths CryptoClipWatcher, our new tool against crypto clipboard hijacking techniques Since 2017, this technique is becoming quite popular. Cryptocurrency in general is a new target for malware, and mining Bitcoins is not profitable anymore in regular computers (maybe Monero...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
Martiniano Mallavibarrena ‘Insiders’ in Cybersecurity: “Catch me if you can” Within companies, there is a significant window of opportunity for cybersecurity incidents: disgruntled employees, suppliers, subcontractors...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 28 February – 4 March Daxin: highly sophisticated backdoor Researchers at Symantec have published a paper reporting a new backdoor they have called Daxin, which they attribute to actors linked to China. According to Symantec,...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Plausibly Deniable Encryption or How to Reveal A Key Without Revealing It When the secret police arrested Andrea at the airport checkpoint, she thought it was a mere formality reserved for all foreign citizens. When they searched her luggage and found...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths acquires Gesconsultor (Gesdatos), the leading Governance, Risk & Compliance platform Spain GesConsultor will be offered internationally as part of Telefónica’s security services portfolio. The platform enables organisations to support business strategy, improve operating performance, mitigate operational risks and ensure regulatory compliance. GOVERTIS...
Florence Broderick Introducing Mobile Connect – the new standard in digital authentication The Mobile Operators hold the future of digital authentication in our hands, and so do our customers. The consumers will no longer need to create and manage multiple user...
Florence Broderick Trend Ransomware Report 21st Century ExtortionThe scourge of crypto-ransomware malware featured prominently in threat predictions for 2015, and the 165% increase reported in Q1 2015 indicate that these fears were well founded....
Florence Broderick Top of the app charts. Shuabang: automated malware made in China Have you ever wondered how some apps rocket up the charts so quickly? Sometimes you’ll spot one that seems like a curveball, like a pub rock covers band hitting...
Florence Broderick The Turkish behind pr0nClicker, uploads badware to Google Play for the fourth time During last week, the Turkish (maybe a gang, maybe just a person) behind the pr0nClickers malware got to avoid Google Play defenses and upload again dozens of fake apps...
Florence Broderick Studying the trojan apps for Android used in Hacking Team leak Between the information leaked these days about #HackingTeam, several trojan Android APK files have been found. A first approach with Tacyt shows interesting relations with legitimate apps, the ones leaked a...
Florence Broderick New Tool: MicEnum, Mandatory Integrity Control Enumerator In the context of the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems, Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) is a core security feature introduced in Windows Vista and implemented in subsequent lines...
Florence Broderick Telefónica Trend Report: The PoS Malware threat in 2015 A few weeks ago in the United Kingdom, cashless payments overtook the use of notes and coins for the first time. This is the latest demonstration that, while worldwide...
Florence Broderick "Incident Response Management": Attitudes of European Enterprises We have recently sponsored a new research study conducted by Pierre Audoin Consultants, PAC, focused on “Incident Response Management”. The results detailed are compiled from a survey conducted among...
Florence Broderick "Alarmware" in Google Play: will not stop an alarm until you install another malicious app In ElevenPaths, we have spotted a few samples of downloaders in Google Play that work in a very special way. The app hides its icon and installs a service...
Florence Broderick Our CEO, Pedro Pablo Pérez, will represent Telefonica in the European Cyber Security Organization Brussels and the cybersecurity industry will earmark up to 1.8 billion euros in research TELEFONICA JOINS THE DECISION-MAKING BODIES OF THE EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY ORGANIZATION AS...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty script in Powershell to check certificate fingerprints Malware is using signed binaries to attack Windows systems. Malware needs it to get into the roots of the operative system. So attackers steal or create their own certificates....
Florence Broderick Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
Florence Broderick New Tool: MicEnum, Mandatory Integrity Control Enumerator In the context of the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems, Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) is a core security feature introduced in Windows Vista and implemented in subsequent lines...
Florence Broderick HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
