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...
Diego Samuel Espitia Fileless Malware: A Growing but Controllable Attack For some years now, WatchGuard has been generating a report on the security situation detected on the Internet. Following the acquisition of Panda, this report has become even more...
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, 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....
David García Bestiary of a Poorly Managed Memory (II) Our expert David Garcia shows what happens when the same block of reserved memory is released twice, the so-called double free.
ElevenPaths Come to Create Technology at Telefónica’s Chief Data Office Unit Hi Hacker! Technology is in a constant evolution and so are we. Therefore, from Telefónica, throughout the Chief Data Office (CDO) led by Chema Alonso, which includes Aura -Cognitive Intelligence-, ElevenPaths -Cybersecurity-, LUCA -Big Data-...
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...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing August 22-28 Conti ransomware distributed after Trickbot Conti is a relatively new ransomware that appeared in isolated attacks in December 2019 but started to become a relevant threat in June 2020, when...
Gabriel Bergel Cybersecurity and Pandemic (II) We continue with the second part of this article in which we analyse the current situation in its three dimensions. Let’s remember that in the first part of the...
ElevenPaths Expanding Neto capabilities: how to develop new analysis plugins In previous posts we have introduced Neto as a browser extension analyzer. The first version we released, 0.5.x included a CLI, a JSON-RPC interface and could be used directly...
ElevenPaths Analyzing browser extensions with Neto Console Fifteen days ago we published the first version of Neto, our extensions analyzer in Github. It was published under a free license, also during this time we have worked...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: The eternal dispute: backdoors and national security A bipartisan group of legislators from the house of representatives has introduced a piece of legistation which will prevent the federal government of the United States from demanding companies...
ElevenPaths Technically analysing a SIEM… are your logs secure? The SIEMs are usually utilized within highly secure of regulated environments, where regular log monitoring and analysis is required to search for security incidents. They help to make...
ElevenPaths New report: Malware attacks Chilean banks and bypasses SmartScreen, by exploiting DLL Hijacking within popular software ElevenPaths has spotted an enhanced and evolving Brazilian banking trojan (probably coming from KL Kit,) through using a new technique to bypass the SmartScreen reputation system and avoid detection...
ElevenPaths New tool: Neto, our Firefox, Chrome and Opera extensions analysis suite In the innovation and laboratory area at ElevenPaths, we have created a new tool which is used to analyze browser extensions. It is a complete suite (also extensible with...
ElevenPaths You’ve got mail? You’ve got malware A few weeks ago I was ‘compromised’. A well-known vulnerability was exploited and I was left financially exposed, with my reputation potentially at risk. “What happened?” I hear you...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: Monero and EternalRomance, the perfect formula Last year’s release by ShadowBrokers about tools belonging to the National Security Agency continues to be a talking point. A new malware which utilizes the EternalRomance tool has appeared...
ElevenPaths Facebook changes the logic of their TLS policy (partly due to our research), by implementing a ‘two-way’ HSTS Facebook and privacy. The recent scandal from the social network within the last few weeks does not exactly make it the best example in regards of privacy or secure...
ElevenPaths In search of improved cryptocurrency privacy with Dash, Zcash and Monero When we talk about cryptocurrencies we often find ourselves with the belief that their use is completely anonymous. However, those who have investigated a little about them (because it...
ElevenPaths Mum, I want to be a hacker The hacker concept is most often associated with male ‘techies’ and ‘geeks’. But why is it so difficult to find female role models in the world of technology? We...
ElevenPaths ElevenPaths creates an addon to make Firefox compatible with Certificate Transparency Certificate Transparency will be mandatory in Chrome for new certificates in late 2017. This means that the webpages will show an alert if protected by certificates not present in...
Florence Broderick ElevenPaths Talks: The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security REGISTER HERE! On Thursday, 19 May, our colleague Sebastian will give a speech about The ISF Standard of Good Practice for Information Security. The standard of good practice is...
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 Heartbleed plugin for FOCA By now, everyone knows about Heartbleed. Just like we did for FaasT, we have created a plugin for FOCA (final version) one of our most downloaded tools. This plugin...