Telefónica Tech AI of Things(I): Multiplying the value of connected things Written by Álvaro Capell and David Bonomo The recent media explosion of the metaverse concept has overshadowed another technological trend, augmented or mixed reality, which is transforming the way we...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 19-25 February New privilege escalation flaw in Linux Security researchers at Qualys have discovered seven flaws in Canonical’s Snap software packaging and deployment system used in operating systems that use the Linux...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 12-18 February Researchers develop exploit for critical vulnerability in Magento Positive Technologies’ offensive security team has developed a Proof of Concept (PoC) for the CVE-2022-24086 CVSSv3 9.8 vulnerability, claiming that it would allow control...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 5 – 11 February Microsoft disables macros and MSIX to prevent malware distribution Microsoft has been actively mobilising against multiple malware attacks that use some of its technologies as an entry vector. The products...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 29 January – 4 February Exploits that allow privilege elevation in Windows published Security researchers have made public several exploits that leverage a known elevation of privilege vulnerability that affects all versions of Windows 10. The exploits...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 22-28 January New vulnerabilities in Linux Two new vulnerabilities of risk have recently been disclosed and are reportedly affecting Linux systems. If exploited, they could allow privilege escalation on the vulnerable system. CVE-2021-4034...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 15–21 january Cyber-attack campaign against Ukrainian targets The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center team has been analysing the succession of cyberattacks against Ukrainian organisations since 13 January, which have affected at least 15 government institutions...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 8–14 january Microsoft security bulletin Microsoft has published its January security bulletin in which it has fixed a total of 97 bugs, including six 0-day vulnerabilities and nine bugs classified as critical....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 1–7 january Mail delivery failure on Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers 2 January, Microsoft released a workaround to fix a bug that interrupted email delivery on Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers. The bug is a “year...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 28-31 december Smishing campaign impersonating MRW and Sending using real order data Numerous Twitter users are reporting a smishing campaign in which the logistics companies Sending and MRW are being impersonated. The...
ElevenPaths Telefónica WannaCry File Restorer: How can we recover information deleted by WannaCry? When cyberattacks occur in large organizations, it is crucial to remember where duplicate files are stored, as this information is also subject to infection by a malware virus or...
Florence Broderick Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
Florence Broderick The Turkish behind pr0nClicker, uploads badware to Google Play for the fourth time During last week, the Turkish (maybe a gang, maybe just a person) behind the pr0nClickers malware got to avoid Google Play defenses and upload again dozens of fake apps...
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 HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
