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...
Sergio de los Santos Pay When You Get Infected by Ransomware? Many Shades of Grey The Internet is full of articles explaining why ransomware should not be paid. And they are probably right, but if you don’t make a difference between the type of ransomware and...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths at RSA Conference 2020 Once again, we return to the RSA Conference, the reference event in the cybersecurity sector. From February 24 to 27 we will be presenting our proposal under the claim...
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....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15 – 19 May Vulnerabilities in cloud platforms Otorio’s team of researchers found 11 vulnerabilities affecting different cloud management platform providers. Sierra Wireless, Teltonika Networks and InHand Networks are the affected companies. The security flaws...
ElevenPaths Breaking Out HSTS (and HPKP) on Firefox, IE/Edge and (possibly) Chrome. Our Black Hat research We have been for a long time researching about HSTS, HPKP, certificate pinning and TLS technologies in general. As a collateral effect of this work, we have found some...
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 APTualizator (II): Deconstructing Necurs Rootkit and Tools for Detecting and Removing It This report has been drafted by Roberto Santos and Javier Rascón from the CSIRT-SCC (Security Cyberoperations Center) Research Team, in collaboration with ElevenPaths. At the end of June 2019, a big Spanish company was attacked and thousands of their computers were impacted. Such was...
Sergio de los Santos What Do Criminals in the Ransomware Industry Recommend so that Ransomware Does Not Affect You? We all know the security recommendations offered by professionals on malware protection. Frequently: use common sense (personally, one of the least applicable and abstract pieces of advice that can...
Telefónica Tech Attacking login credentials An access credential is basically a username and password associated with a person and the access permissions granted to that person for an application, service or system. An access...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 13 – 17 June Hertzbleed. New side-channel attack on AMD and Intel processors Security researchers at several US universities have discovered a new side-channel attack affecting Intel and AMD processors, called Hertzbleed. What is remarkable...
Nacho Palou We have a brand-new website! Get to know the new Telefónica Tech Cyber Security & Cloud website Telefónica Tech is constantly growing and working to be the technological partner of companies in their digital transformation process. As part of this purpose, Telefónica Tech Cyber Security & Cloud...
Alberto Sempere XDR, the cybersecurity trend that dominated the RSA Conference 2022 After a two-year break, I am back at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, the international key event for the cybersecurity industry. Having overcome the typical hurdles of a trip...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud Computing, the great ally for the digitalisation of the sports sector (and for athletes) Data analytics has become fundamental to sport. Gone are the days of coaches and trainers taking notes with their pen in a notebook during matches or training sessions. Everything from...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 6 – 10 June LockBit threatens Mandiant after linking them to Evil Corp The LockBit 2.0 ransomware group announced on its dark web publishing page afternoon, 6 May, the alleged compromise of cybersecurity firm...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 28 May – 3 June Rapid evolution of the EnemyBot botnet Since its discovery last March by Securonix researchers, the botnet known as EnemyBot, focused on carrying out DDoS attacks, has continued to expand, thanks...
Cristina del Carmen Arroyo Siruela Differences between encryption, hashing, encoding and obfuscation There is currently a lot of confusion about the terms encryption, encoding, cryptography, hashing and obfuscation techniques. These terms are related to computer security, specifically to the confidentiality and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21–27 May Unpatched vulnerability in PayPal Security researcher H4x0r-DZ has disclosed an unpatched vulnerability in PayPal’s money transfer service that could allow attackers to trick victims into stealing money by completing targeted...
Diego Samuel Espitia Vulnerabilities, threats and cyber-attacks on industrial systems Cybercriminals have increasingly targeted industrial environments
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 How does blacklisting work in Java and how to take advantage of it (using whitelisting) Oracle has introduced the notion of whitelisting in its latest version of Java 7 update 40. That is a great step ahead (taken too late) in security for this...
