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 August 22-28 Conti ransomware distributed after Trickbot Conti is a relatively new ransomware that appeared in isolated attacks in December 2019 but started to become a relevant threat in June 2020, when...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing July 11-17 Combining Citrix vulnerabilities to steal user sessions On July 7th, Citrix published a security bulletin to correct up to 11 vulnerabilities. A few days later, a report was released with...
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 The Confirmation Bias: we seek the information that confirms our decisions, refusing their opposed evidences Imagine yourself in a lab over an experiment. You’re asked to analyze the following number sequence: 2, 4, 6 This sequence follows a rule. What do you think the rule is?...
Sergio de los Santos The Attack on SolarWinds Reveals Two Nightmares: What Has Been Done Right and What Has Been Done Wrong All cyber security professionals now know at least part of what was originally thought to be “just” an attack on SolarWinds, which has just truned out to be one...
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...
Cristina del Carmen Arroyo Siruela The human factor: a key element of cyber security When it is said that a server needs to be bastioned, cybersecurity personnel have an idea of what it is and what it consists of. But what about securing...
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...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths EasyDoH Update Hot off the Press: New Improvements and Functionalities Just a few weeks ago, we launched EasyDoH: an extension for Firefox that simplifies the use of DNS over HTTPS. We have been asked about its improvements and several...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Google report 17% of Microsoft vulnerabilities. Microsoft and Qihoo, 10% Who finds more vulnerabilities in Microsoft products? What percentage of vulnerabilities are discovered by Microsoft, other companies or vulnerability brokers? How many flaws have unknown discoverers? Over this report we have analyzed...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths EasyDoH: our new extension for Firefox that makes DNS over HTTPS simpler A year ago, the IETF has raised to RFC the DNS over HTTPS proposal. This new is more important than it may seem. For two reasons: firstly, it’s a...
Sergio de los Santos Facebook signed one of its apps with a private key shared with other Google Play apps since 2015 Facebook Basics is a Facebook app aimed at countries with poor connectivity, where a free access service to WhatsApp and Facebook is provided. It has been discovered that the Android version...
ElevenPaths New tool: Masked Extension Control (MEC), don’t trust Windows extensions Windows relies too much on extensions to choose the program that must process a file. For instance, any .doc file will be opened by Word, regardless of its “magic...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Five interesting own tools that you may have missed (and a surprise) This time we are going to rehash a blog entry by gathering some of the own tools that we have recently developed and we consider of interest. We summarize...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Uncovering APTualizator: the APT that patches Windows By the end of June 2019, we assisted to an incident were a high number of computers had started to reboot abnormally. In parallel, was detected a file called...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityReport19H1: 45,000 apps removed from Google Play, 2% of them detected by antiviruses Currently, there are a number of reports addressing trends and summaries on security. However, at ElevenPaths we want to make a difference. Our Innovation and Labs team has just...
Sergio de los Santos A government is known by the Apple data it requests Sometimes, governments need to be underpinned by huge corporations to carry out their work. When a threat depends on knowing the identity or gaining access to a potential attacker...
Sergio de los Santos The attack against OpenPGP infrastructure: consequences of a SOB’s actions What is happening with the attack against OpenPGP infrastructure constitutes a disaster, according to the affected people who maintain the protocol. Robert J. Hansen, who communicated the incident, has...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths and the University of Piraeus in Greece work together using Tacyt as an educational and research unit ElevenPaths and the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus in Greece work together using Tacyt as an educational and research unit. ElevenPaths and the Department of Informatics of...
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 Banking trojan I+D: 64 bits versions and using TOR Malware industry needs to improve and keep on stealing. So they research and invest. There are two different ways of investing if you are “in the business”: one is...
Florence Broderick Mobile banking and banking trojans During 2012 there was an increase around 28% in mobile banking or M-Banking operations. Users can access their bank accounts from their mobile devices, mainly making use of a specifically...
