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 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...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Unravelling the Quantum Tangle of Cybersecurity: Quantum Computers, Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography Do you know what’ s the difference between quantum computing, quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography? Because to be honest, they have (almost) nothing to do with each other. They...
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....
Andrés Naranjo Analysis of APPs Related to COVID19 Using Tacyt (II) We continue with the research started in the previous entry in which we analysed these type of applications with our Tacyt tool. Regarding the application analysed, we can see...
ElevenPaths New research: we discover how to avoid SmartScreen via COM Hijacking and with no privileges COM Hijacking technique has a simple theoretical basis, similar to the DLL Hijacking one: What does it happen when an application searches for a non-existent COM object on the...
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...
Aarón Jornet How Lokibot, the malware used by Machete to steal information and login credentials, works Machete is a group dedicated to information theft and espionage. It uses various tools, including LokiBot.
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....
Florence Broderick SmartID and SealSign on Mobile World Congress 2015 In this increasingly digital world, where users’ identity and privacy are exposed to continuous threats, from Telefónica and ElevenPaths have created a secure digital ecosystem which allows users...
Florence Broderick JSDialers: apps calling premium rate numbers (with new techniques) in Google Play During last year, a lot of “made in Spain” malware was found in Google Play. It was basically malware that tried to silently subscribe the victim to premium SMS numbers. From a while...
Florence Broderick New Tool: JavaRuleSetter for creating Devployment Rule Sets in Java Oracle introduced the notion of whitelisting in Java 7 update 40. It was called Deployment Rule Set. In Java update 51, it introduced a new feature, that was close...
Florence Broderick Winners of the Latch Plugins Contest As you know, last 16th of October 2014, as part of our annual “Security Innovation Day” event, we announced the launch of the “Latch Plugins Contest“, the first Latch...
Florence Broderick Detected some "clickers" in Google Play simulating apps and games During the last days, some apps have appeared in Google Play that work like “clickers”, between them an app simulating Talking Tom (that was online for just a few...
Florence Broderick News: ownCloud Latch plugin We have uploaded to GitHub our latest plugin for ownCloud. It makes it easier to use Latch technology with this free software similar to widely used Dropbox. You can...
Florence Broderick 5.500 apps potentially vulnerable to Man in the Middle attacks in Google Play It has been discovered than AppsGeyser, an app creator “with just a few clicks”, deactivates the SSL certificate validation in its apps. An attacker on the same network as...
Florence Broderick Latch USB Monitor: New tool to monitor PNP devices with Latch Latch USB Monitor is a tool that monitors Plug ‘n Play device (PNP) changes in Windows and gives the user the possibility of tracking incoming devices, and react accordingly...
Florence Broderick PhpMyAdmin fixes a XSS detected by ElevenPaths (CVE-2014-9219) On November 28th, while our Faast team was developing an intrusion module for PhpMyAdmin MySQL manager, we detected a new cross site scripting vulnerability not known so far in this...
Florence Broderick Shuabang botnet: BlackHat App Store Optimization (BlackASO) in Google Play ElevenPaths has detected malicious apps in Google Play (already removed by Google), aimed at performing Shuabang techniques, or BlackASO (Black Hat App Store Optimization). These malicious apps link fake...
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...
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...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths Talks: The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security REGISTER HERE! On Thursday, 19 May, our colleague Sebastian will give a speech about The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security. The standard of good practice is...
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 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...
