LUCA 5 Top Posts from LUCA Data Speaks Blog 2017 2017 has been a great year in many ways, in particular from a technological point of view. We have experienced an infinite number of advancements in the field and...
LUCA Can mobile phone traces help shed light on the spread of Zika in Colombia? Content written by Daniela Perrotta, ISI Foundation researcher and UN Global Pulse fellow and Enrique Frias-Martinez, Researcher, Telefonica Research, Madrid. Originally posted on the UN Global Pulse blog. Nowadays, thanks...
Óscar Mancebo Movistar Home, the reinvention of the home thanks to Artificial Intelligence At the 2018 edition of MWC, we announced that we were working on Movistar Home, a device aimed at reinventing the home incorporating Aura, Telefónica’s artificial intelligence, for its...
María Cascajo Sastre Smart Parking, IoT valet parking for Smart Cities Parking is one of the most repetitive and time consuming activities we carry out in life. We spend on average up to 106 days in our life, finding parking...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Developing a Tool to Decrypt VCryptor Ransomware (Available on NoMoreRansom.org) Discover how VCryptor ransomware works and the tool we have developed as part of NoMoreRansom.org to decrypt it.
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths further strengthens its reputation as a cybersecurity services provider Today was the fifth edition of the Security Day event, organized by ElevenPaths, the Telefónica Cybersecurity Unit, which took place in Madrid, under the slogan “Cybersecurity On Board“. This...
Florence Broderick Mobile phone Surveillance: Who’s listening to your calls? In the current digital world, espionage is much more common than we think. Revelations from Edward Snowden that the NSA hacked SIMs to spy on mobile conversations prove that...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty script in Powershell to check certificate fingerprints Malware is using signed binaries to attack Windows systems. Malware needs it to get into the roots of the operative system. So attackers steal or create their own certificates....
Florence Broderick The Android Trojan preinstalled in Amazon Tablets is in Google Play as well Researchers from Cheetah Mobile have found Trojans preinstalled in some cheap Amazon tablets, very hard to remove. But, here in ElevenPaths we have found that a version of this...
Florence Broderick Apps in Google Play that install an HTTP Server as a backdoor in your Android Trend Micro has discovered a very interesting problem with an SDK called Moplus that, literally, works as a backdoor for Android devices. The problems here are that this SDK...
Florence Broderick Android malware not only posing as Word documents… but Excel as well China is a paradise for “SMS stealing malware” for Android. These programs steal your SMS inbox, notebook… The only “problem” for malware creators is to induce users to...
Florence Broderick New Financial Cyber Threats Report New “Financial Cyber Threats (Q3 2015)” reportYou can now download the full report about Financial Cyber Threats (Q3 2015) carried out by Kaspersky’s Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) &...
Florence Broderick Top of the app charts. Shuabang: automated malware made in China Have you ever wondered how some apps rocket up the charts so quickly? Sometimes you’ll spot one that seems like a curveball, like a pub rock covers band hitting...
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 Telefónica Trend Report: The PoS Malware threat in 2015 A few weeks ago in the United Kingdom, cashless payments overtook the use of notes and coins for the first time. This is the latest demonstration that, while worldwide...
Florence Broderick "Alarmware" in Google Play: will not stop an alarm until you install another malicious app In ElevenPaths, we have spotted a few samples of downloaders in Google Play that work in a very special way. The app hides its icon and installs a service...
Pablo Alarcón Padellano Move to the cloud with confidence supported by ElevenPaths and Check Point The goal of ElevenPaths Public Cloud Managed Security Services is to help you to secure any cloud workload and to mitigate cloud risks.
Miguel Ángel de Castro Vendetta Group and the COVID-19 Phishing Emails A new threat has entered the COVID-19 scene: the Vendetta Group. How are their phishing campaigns different from others?
Olivia Brookhouse Can Artificial Intelligence understand emotions? When John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded Artificial Intelligence in 1956, they were amazed how a machine could perform incredibly difficult puzzles quicker than humans. However, it turns out...
Gabriel Bergel Risk Analysis Applied to COVID-19 Our CSA Gabriel Bergel shows you how to apply the Risk Analysis methodology to the management of the COVID-19 threat.
ElevenPaths How the “antimalware” XProtect for MacOS works and why it detects poorly and badly Recently, MacOS included a signature in its integrated antivirus, intended to detect a binary for Windows; but, does this detection make sense? We could think it does, as a...
