Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 27 May – 2 June Backdoor discovered in hundreds of Gigabyte motherboards Cybersecurity researchers at Eclypsium discovered a secret backdoor in the firmware of hundreds of Gigabyte motherboard models, a well-known Taiwanese manufacturer. Every time...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Are You Crypto-Agile to Respond Quickly to Changing Cyberthreats? A business is considered agile if it is able to respond quickly to market changes, adapt to maintain stability. However, without cryptography there is no security and without security...
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...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 19 – 23 June Critical vulnerabilities in Asus routers Asus has issued a security advisory addressing a total of nine vulnerabilities affecting multiple router models. Among these security flaws, the one registered as CVE-2022-26376,...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
ElevenPaths CryptoClipWatcher, our new tool against crypto clipboard hijacking techniques Since 2017, this technique is becoming quite popular. Cryptocurrency in general is a new target for malware, and mining Bitcoins is not profitable anymore in regular computers (maybe Monero...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Hiding Keys Under the Mat: Governments Could Ensure Universal Insecurity The doorbell rang. “Who will be ringing now?” asked Brittney Mills, as she struggled to get off the couch. Her eight months of pregnancy were beginning to hinder her...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 12 – 16 June Microsoft has fixed more than 70 vulnerabilities in its June Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released its June Patch Tuesday, addressing a number of critical, high, medium and low severity vulnerabilities....
Martiniano Mallavibarrena ‘Insiders’ in Cybersecurity: “Catch me if you can” Within companies, there is a significant window of opportunity for cybersecurity incidents: disgruntled employees, suppliers, subcontractors...
Franco Piergallini Guida Adversarial Attacks: The Enemy of Artificial Intelligence (II) In Machine and Deep Learning, as in any system, there are vulnerabilities and techniques that allow manipulating its behaviour at the mercy of an attacker. As we discussed in...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing 13-19 June Ripple 20 Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP Software JSOF researchers have discovered 19 0-day vulnerabilities, collectively called Ripple 20, in the TCP/IP software library developed by Treck that would affect more than...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing December 12-18 Supply Chain compromise: SolarWinds Orion FireEye researchers have unveiled a major global information theft and espionage operation that takes advantage of the supply chain to gain access to the systems...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Hiding Keys Under the Mat: Governments Could Ensure Universal Insecurity The doorbell rang. “Who will be ringing now?” asked Brittney Mills, as she struggled to get off the couch. Her eight months of pregnancy were beginning to hinder her...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths Radio English #5 – The Path After a Security Audit What is the path for a company after a security audit? It is increasingly common for companies of all sizes to decide to carry out such analyses, but what...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing December 5-11 Microsoft Security Newsletter On December 8, Microsoft published its monthly security update newsletter, which this time includes patches for 58 vulnerabilities and an advisory for various Microsoft products. Nine of...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón What Is Wrong with Quantum Cryptography That the World’s Largest Intelligence Agencies Discourage Its Use Quantum cryptography does not exist. What everyone understands when the term “quantum cryptography” is mentioned is actually the quantum key distribution (QKD). And this is precisely what I want...
ElevenPaths Cyber Security Weekly Briefing 28 November – 4 December New version of the TrickBot malware TrickBot botnet operators have added a new capability that allows them to interact with the BIOS or UEFI firmware of an infected computer. This...
Sergio de los Santos Tell Me What Data You Request from Apple and I Will Tell You What Kind of Government You Are We recently found out that Spain sent 1,353 government requests for access to Facebook user data in the first half of 2020. Thanks to Facebook’s transparency report for the...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing November 21-27 Qbot as a prelude to Egregor ransomware infections Researchers at Group-IB security company have issued a statement claiming to have found activity linking the Qbot banking trojan (also known as...
Diego Samuel Espitia Using Development Libraries to Deploy Malware Cybercriminals seek strategies to achieve their objectives: in some cases, it is users’ information; in others, connections; sometimes they generate networks of computers under their control (botnets), etc. Any...
Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nonces, Salts, Paddings and Other Random Herbs for Cryptographic Salad Dressing The chronicles of the kings of Norway has it that King Olaf Haraldsson the Saint disputed the possession of the Hísing island with his neighbour the King of Sweden....
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...
ElevenPaths Squeezing the numbers and facts of Google’s annual Android security report Last month Google published its third annual security report on Android’s security protections, aiming to send a clear message to the world about mobile malware (or Potentially Harmful Applications...
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...