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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Hiding Keys Under the Mat: Governments Could Ensure Universal Insecurity The doorbell rang. “Who will be ringing now?” asked Brittney Mills, as she struggled to get off the couch. Her eight months of pregnancy were beginning to hinder her...
ElevenPaths The Telco Security Alliance Bolsters Threat Detection Capabilities Through Shared Intelligence Dallas, Singapore and Madrid, February 18th, 2020 – The Telco Security Alliance today announced new collaborative efforts designed to further enhance the ability to detect and eliminate threats from customer environments. Members of the alliance —...
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....
ElevenPaths New tool: “Web browsers HSTS entries eraser”, our Metasploit post exploitation module This module deletes the HSTS/HPKP database of the main browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and wget in Windows, Mac and Linux. This allows an attacker to perform man in...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 10 – 16 December Microsoft fixes in its December Patch Tuesday two 0-day vulnerabilities and 49 other bugs Among the fixed vulnerabilities, two of them are 0-day, one of them actively exploited and identified...
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...
ElevenPaths Innovation and New Cybersecurity Tools: Security Innovation Days 2020 (Day 3) This was the 8th edition of the Security Innovation Days 2020 so far. Three intense days in which innovation in cybersecurity and the digital transformation have been the essence...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón What Is Wrong with Quantum Cryptography That the World’s Largest Intelligence Agencies Discourage Its Use Quantum cryptography does not exist. What everyone understands when the term “quantum cryptography” is mentioned is actually the quantum key distribution (QKD). And this is precisely what I want...
Sergio de los Santos Tell Me What Data You Request from Apple and I Will Tell You What Kind of Government You Are We recently found out that Spain sent 1,353 government requests for access to Facebook user data in the first half of 2020. Thanks to Facebook’s transparency report for the...
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...
Diego Samuel Espitia Using Development Libraries to Deploy Malware Cybercriminals seek strategies to achieve their objectives: in some cases, it is users’ information; in others, connections; sometimes they generate networks of computers under their control (botnets), etc. Any...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nonces, Salts, Paddings and Other Random Herbs for Cryptographic Salad Dressing The chronicles of the kings of Norway has it that King Olaf Haraldsson the Saint disputed the possession of the Hísing island with his neighbour the King of Sweden....
Sergio de los Santos A Simple Explanation About SAD DNS and Why It Is a Disaster (or a Blessing) In 2008, Kaminsky shook the foundations of the Internet. A design flaw in the DNS made it possible to fake responses and send a victim wherever the attacker wanted....
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 14-20 Malware distribution campaign supplants the identity of Spanish ministries ESET researchers warn of a malware distribution campaign that is impersonating Spanish ministries to distribute a malicious Android application through links...
Andrés Naranjo The Challenge of Online Identity (I): Identity Is the New Perimeter We often find ourselves in situations where we are faced with a mission and, as the mission goes on, we realise that the first choices we made were not...
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...
Sergio de los Santos How Traditional CA’s Are Losing Control of Certificates and Possible Reasons Why Chrome Will Have a New Root Store It’s all about trust. This phrase is valid in any field. Money, for example, is nothing more than a transfer of trust, because obviously we trust that for a...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 7-13 Links between Vatet, PyXie and Defray777 Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have investigated the families of malware and operational methodologies used by a threat agent that has managed to go...
José Luis Núñez Díaz Towards a smarter supply chain One of the recurring use cases that is always mentioned when talking about Blockchain is its application in supply chains. In fact, back in 2018, at Telefónica we were...
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 Mobile Connect winner of the 'Connected Life Awards' Mobile Connect is a multi-operator solution driven by GSMA for universal secure access. The user only needs to link their information to their mobile device solution to have quick...
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 Android malware not only posing as Word documents… but Excel as well China is a paradise for “SMS stealing malware” for Android. These programs steal your SMS inbox, notebook… The only “problem” for malware creators is to induce users to...
