Diego Samuel Espitia What are operational technology (OT) security “Patch Tuesdays”? In the cybersecurity world we are used to the release of packages that fix vulnerabilities detected in business software. One of the releases that has established a periodicity and...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 9 — 15 July Rozena: backdoor distributed by exploiting Follina vulnerability Fortinet researchers have published an analysis of a malicious campaign in which they have detected the distribution of a new backdoor exploiting the...
Sergio de los Santos Hypocrisy doublespeak in ransomware gangs The hypocrisy, doublespeak and even, we assume, sarcasm that ransomware gangs display on their websites has no limits. As an anecdote, we are going to show some of the...
Cristina del Carmen Arroyo Siruela Understanding Digital Certificates For ordinary citizens, digital certificates are those electronic files or documents that allow them to carry out thousands of legal actions, administrative actions, and they can dispense with having...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 1 — 8 July Raspberry Robin: worm detected in multiple Windows networks Microsoft has issued a private advisory to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint subscribers, informing about the detection of the Raspberry Robin malware in...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 25 June – 1 July Kaspersky investigates attacks on industrial control systems Kaspersky researchers have investigated an attack campaign targeting industrial control systems (ICS) of telcos and industrial companies in several countries on the Asian...
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.
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...
Cristina del Carmen Arroyo Siruela Women’s Engineering Day: Building New Paths The Women's Engineering Society (WES) launched the Women's Engineering Day initiative in the UK on June 23, 2014
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...
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 How to bypass antiXSS filter in Chrome and Safari (discovered by ElevenPaths) Modern browsers usually have an antiXSS filter, that protects users from some of the consequences of this kind of attacks. Normally, they block cross site scripting execution, so the...
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...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty shellcode to binary python script https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js If you work with exploits and shellcode, you already know what shellcode is and how to deal with it. Sometimes it comes with exploits in C, Perl, Python…...
