Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 30 October-5 November Trojan Source: vulnerability in source code compilers Researchers at the University of Cambridge have published a paper detailing a new attack method called “Trojan Source” that exploits a flaw in...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 23-29 October Google fixes two 0-days in Chrome browser Google has released a new Chrome update (95.0.4638.69) for Windows, Mac and Linux, which fixes 7 vulnerabilities, two of them being 0-days. Regarding...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 16-22 October Zerodium interested in acquiring 0-days of Windows VPN software Information security company Zerodium has reported its willingness to purchase 0-day vulnerabilities targeting VPN service software for Windows systems: ExpressVPN, NordVPN...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 9-15 October Microsoft Security Bulletin Microsoft has published its security bulletin for the month of October in which it has fixed a total of 81 bugs in its software, including 4 0-day...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 2-8 October Apache vulnerabilities actively exploited Earlier this week, Apache fixed a 0-day (CVE-2021-41773) affecting Apache HTTP servers which was actively being exploited. However, on Thursday we learned that the patch released...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 25 September – 1 October Let’s Encrypt root certificate expires (DST Root CA X3) A few days ago, Scott Helme, founder of Security Headers, highlighted the 30 September as the date when Let’s Encrypt’s root certificate, DST...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 18-24 September Malware campaign using TeamViewer on websites under IIS Malwarebytes researchers have observed a malware distribution campaign since the beginning of September that makes use of previously compromised pages running on Microsoft’s...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 11-17 September S.O.V.A. – New Android banking trojan Researchers at Threat Fabric have discovered the existence, at least since the beginning of August, of a new banking trojan for Android which they...
Diego Samuel Espitia PackageDNA Our Development Package Analysis Framework That Made Its Debut at Blackhat After several months of research and development, during the BlackHat USA 2021 Arsenal event, you saw our deep analysis tool for development packages called PackageDNA, in the talk “Scanning...
David García D3FEND, the other side of the ATT&CK coin We are already familiar with the ATT&CK project of the MITRE corporation. It is a de facto standard that helps us to characterise threats based on the techniques and...
Innovation Marketing Team Empowering women in entrepreneurship: 10 female – led startups in Germany In Germany, only about 15% of startups are initiated by women. Sadly, the figure has been stagnant for years. Additionally, female-led startups receive significantly less Venture Capital than those...
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...
ElevenPaths How to cause a DoS in Windows 8 explorer.exe We have discovered by accident how to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) in Windows 8. It’s a little bug that is present in the last version of the...
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 Showing certificate chain without validating with Windows "certificate store" (C#) Java has its own independent certificate store. If you wish to view natively in Windows a certificate extracted from an APK or JAR file Windows may not find the...
