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...
Diego Samuel Espitia Fileless Malware: A Growing but Controllable Attack For some years now, WatchGuard has been generating a report on the security situation detected on the Internet. Following the acquisition of Panda, this report has become even more...
Gabriel Bergel Decepticons vs. Covid-19: The Ultimate Battle Social engineering is being used more than ever by cybercriminals. What do Decepticons have to do with it?
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 Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 31 October – 6 November Apple fixes 3 0-day vulnerabilities Apple, with the launch of the new iOS 14.2 version, has corrected three 0-day vulnerabilities that would be actively exploited and that would affect iPhone,...
ElevenPaths New tools: Metashield Bots, analyzing and cleaning metadata for everyone, from everywhere You all know Metashield. Basically, it is a technology from our own to analyze and clean metadata, that is used in several of our own products. Although metadata seems...
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 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...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing August 15-21 EmoCrash: stopping Emotet for almost 6 months Emotet’s comeback after a 6 month-period absence has hinted that the hiatus in the malware’s operations could be due to the discovery of...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 24 — 30 September Two 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in Microsoft Exchange The Vietnamese cybersecurity team GTSC reported two 0-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange three weeks ago through the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) that are...
Marta Mallavibarrena Human factor key in cyber security Dozens of vulnerabilities are discovered every day in the current landscape (an average of 50 in 2021), and attackers are finding new and ingenious ways to exploit them. It...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 17 — 23 September Quantum and BlackCat ransomware use Emotet as entry vector Researchers at AdvIntel have published the results of an investigation reporting that ransomware operators Quantum and BlackCat have adopted the use...
Emilio Moreno Latency and Edge Computing: Why is it important? For many years we have been in a race to increase the speed of our connections. Ever since those modems that treated us to a symphony of beeps, the...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 9 — 16 September Microsoft fixes two 0-day and 63 other vulnerabilities in Patch Tuesday Microsoft has fixed 63 vulnerabilities in its September Patch Tuesday, including two 0-days, one of them actively exploited, and...
Estevenson Solano How to become a cyber resilient organisation Fear, panic and uncertainty are some of the feelings constantly experienced in corporate leadership. In management committees, the big question is frequently asked: is our cyber security working? As...
Marta Mª Padilla Foubelo Name the malware you have, and I’ll tell you which botnet you belong to What is a botnet and how does it work? To begin with, let’s dissociate the word botnet. On the one hand, “bot” means robot and, on the other hand, “net”...
Roberto García Esteban Cloud market trends until 2025 All of us who work in Cloud services are aware that this market is still in a phase of accelerated growth and that more and more companies are taking...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 3 — 9 September 0-day vulnerability in Google Chrome Google released on Friday an emergency patch for the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac and Linux, fixing a 0-day vulnerability, which is being actively exploited. The...
Roberto González Rojo Collaborative solutions to address the challenge of hybrid working Microsoft surveyed 30,000 people in 31 different countries in 2021 as part of its Work Trend Index report, asking participants for their opinion on the most appropriate way to...
ElevenPaths Mum, I want to be a hacker The hacker concept is most often associated with male ‘techies’ and ‘geeks’. But why is it so difficult to find female role models in the world of technology? We...
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 "Not today downloaders": New downloaders techniques in Google Play Downloaders are not new in Android, but lately, they are getting more and more important for attackers as a method to avoid Google Play barriers and malware detection. In...
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...
