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...
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...
Innovation and Laboratory Area in ElevenPaths Google report 17% of Microsoft vulnerabilities. Microsoft and Qihoo, 10% Who finds more vulnerabilities in Microsoft products? What percentage of vulnerabilities are discovered by Microsoft, other companies or vulnerability brokers? How many flaws have unknown discoverers? Over this report we have analyzed...
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....
Telefónica Tech How I won a Capture the Flag competition by solving challenges using my mobile phone David Soto, winner of the challenge, collecting the prize together with Humbert Ruiz, from 42 Barcelona, Fundación Telefónica’s programming campus. We organised activities aimed at the technical audience in the...
ElevenPaths Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing July 11-17 Combining Citrix vulnerabilities to steal user sessions On July 7th, Citrix published a security bulletin to correct up to 11 vulnerabilities. A few days later, a report was released with...
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...
Sergio de los Santos What On Earth Is Going on With Ransomware And Why We Won’t Stop It Any Time Soon In the last few months, it is not rare that every now and then we read about a large company that has fallen victim to ransomware, either brought to...
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...
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 ElevenPaths announces that its security platform complies with the new european data protection regulation one year earlier than required The European regulations will enter into force in May 2018, when entities that do not comply can be penalized with fines of up to 4% of their annual turnover. ElevenPaths...
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...
Florence Broderick "Not today downloaders": New downloaders techniques in Google Play Downloaders are not new in Android, but lately, they are getting more and more important for attackers as a method to avoid Google Play barriers and malware detection. In...
Florence Broderick Winners of the Latch Plugins Contest As you know, last 16th of October 2014, as part of our annual “Security Innovation Day” event, we announced the launch of the “Latch Plugins Contest“, the first Latch...
Florence Broderick Mobile banking and banking trojans During 2012 there was an increase around 28% in mobile banking or M-Banking operations. Users can access their bank accounts from their mobile devices, mainly making use of a specifically...
