Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 18 – 24 June Microsoft Office 365 and Cloudflare services went down worldwide Multiple web services were interrupted worldwide last Tuesday. The source of these incidents was Microsoft Office 365 on the one hand...
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...
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...
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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 13–20 May VMware fixes critical vulnerabilities in several of its products VMware has issued a security advisory to fix a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting several of its products. Identified as CVE-2022-22972...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 7–13 May Vulnerability in BIG-IP exploited to erase data On May 4th, F5 fixed, among others, a vulnerability affecting BIG-IP devices (CVE-2022-1388 CVSSv3 9.8), which could allow an unauthenticated attacker with network...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 24 April – 6 May TLStorm 2 – Vulnerabilities in Aruba and Avaya switches Researchers at Armis have discovered five vulnerabilities in the implementation of TLS communications in multiple models of Aruba and Avaya switches....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 22–29 April New malicious RedLine distribution campaign Researchers at BitDefender have published a report on a new RedLine malware distribution campaign. According to the analysts, malicious actors are using the RIG Exploit...
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 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...
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...
