Martiniano Mallavibarrena Understanding The Dynamics of Ransomware Security Incidents The ransomware phenomenon If there is one term that has earned its way to the top of the headlines in the media over the last two years, ransomware is undoubtedly...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 17 – 23 December SentinelOne: malicious Python package in PyPI Researchers at ReversingLabs have published an investigation in which they report having identified a Python package in PyPI that masquerades as the legitimate SDK...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 10 – 16 December Microsoft fixes in its December Patch Tuesday two 0-day vulnerabilities and 49 other bugs Among the fixed vulnerabilities, two of them are 0-day, one of them actively exploited and identified...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 3 – 9 December Ninth Chrome 0-day of the year Google has released Chrome 108.0.5359.94 for Mac and Linux, and 108.0.5359.94/.95 for Windows, which fixes a 0-day vulnerability, the ninth detected in Chrome this...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 26 November – 2 December Urgent update to Chrome to prevent the eighth 0-day of 2022 Google has released an urgent security update for Chrome to prevent exploitation of the eighth 2022 0-day in the...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 11 – 18 November Security updates for 35 Cisco vulnerabilities Cisco has released a security update that addresses 35 vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) and Firepower Management Center...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 5 – 11 November Robin Banks Phishing Platform Reactivated Researchers at IronNet have published the second part of their investigation into the Robin Banks phishing-as-a-service platform. The platform was discovered in June this year...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 28 October – 4 November Vulnerabilities fixed in new OpenSSL version The new 3.0.7 version of OpenSSL, announced last week by the developers of the project, was made public this past Wednesday. The expectation around this...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 21-28 October Campaigns spreading ERMAC malware A team of Cyble researchers recently discovered a mass phishing campaign aimed at spreading the ERMAC banking trojan. The infection method is based on downloading fake...
Telefónica Tech Cyber Security Weekly Briefing, 15-21 October The Noname057(16) group attacks the Spanish Ministry of Defense Last Friday, threat actor Noname057(016) carried out an attack against the website of the Spanish Ministry of Defense, rendering them unavailable...
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...
Florence Broderick How to bypass antiXSS filter in Chrome and Safari (discovered by ElevenPaths) Modern browsers usually have an antiXSS filter, that protects users from some of the consequences of this kind of attacks. Normally, they block cross site scripting execution, so the...
Florence Broderick HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
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 Quick and dirty shellcode to binary python script https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js If you work with exploits and shellcode, you already know what shellcode is and how to deal with it. Sometimes it comes with exploits in C, Perl, Python…...