Category: Uncategorized

20/February/2018

Cyber security: how old and new problems place companies in a “state of attention”

Noticing that security is inserted among such important issues for society does not come as a surprise

23/June/2017

Data leakage is the theme of El Pescador’s new simulated phishing campaign

Cyber threats are constantly being renewed as cybercriminals develop increasingly sophisticated techniques to achieve their goals

16/June/2017

Pacemakers may be vulnerable to cyberattacks, study finds

More than 8,000 vulnerabilities have been discovered in several models. In the UK the number of implanted devices exceeds 400 per million inhabitants

05/June/2017

Android: failures that are beyond the code

In which ways the appropriation of the Android ecosystem affects its security

26/May/2017

A time bomb: the challenge to fight fraud in the digital advertising industry

The HummingBad is one among the various activities that continually harm the digital advertising industry

26/May/2017

Increase in ‘CEO Fraud’ attacks highlights risks to corporate environments

The number of BEC (Business Email Compromise) attacks has grown about 55% in 2015 in comparison with the previous year

26/May/2017

Ransomware recent developments and threats

New threats, spike in infections and attacks against the healthcare industry

26/May/2017

Malvertising — recent developments on tactics and techniques

Performing Malvertising attacks has already become an established technique in the modus operandi of several cyber crime rings

26/May/2017

Exploit Kits: The current revival of an old tool that became trend

The first campaign that used an EK was spotted a decade ago and it used code that exploited a ‘0-day’ vulnerability in Internet Explorer

12/May/2017

WannaCry ransomware spreads around the world and impacts large enterprises

The malware has the behavior of a worm, infecting vulnerable computers that allow connections through Server Message Block (SMB) and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections

09/May/2017

GE patches up vulnerability that allows remote power grids shutdown

Cyberattacks aimed at infrastructure were considered to be costly, requiring a great amount of resources and knowledge to execute

03/May/2017

Stolen “Orange is the New Black” episodes are leaked online. Attackers threaten other studios

The leak occurred after the company refused to pay a ransom of 50 bitcoin that the hacking group demanded in order to not disclose the videos

28/April/2017

Security incident on corporate chat tool HipChat may have exposed users data

It has affected their webservers and allowed others unauthorised access to user content

05/April/2017

USB-based malware raises suspicions of hostile attacks in air-gapped environments

The malware has self-protection features based on volume encryption using the AES128 algorithm, which also creates a single image that should prevent cloning the USB device

26/March/2017

Cyber war games exercises explained

Tempest Security Intelligence has created a unique methodology for running large-scale cyber war games exercises, which we call CYBERDRILL TM

14/March/2017

Steganography in Malvertising campaigns: attacks continue to improve

These attacks have been active at least since 2014 and contain steganography techniques in their execution

20/February/2018

Cyber security: how old and new problems place companies in a “state of attention”

Noticing that security is inserted among such important issues for society does not come as a surprise

23/June/2017

Data leakage is the theme of El Pescador’s new simulated phishing campaign

Cyber threats are constantly being renewed as cybercriminals develop increasingly sophisticated techniques to achieve their goals

16/June/2017

Pacemakers may be vulnerable to cyberattacks, study finds

More than 8,000 vulnerabilities have been discovered in several models. In the UK the number of implanted devices exceeds 400 per million inhabitants

05/June/2017

Android: failures that are beyond the code

In which ways the appropriation of the Android ecosystem affects its security

26/May/2017

A time bomb: the challenge to fight fraud in the digital advertising industry

The HummingBad is one among the various activities that continually harm the digital advertising industry

26/May/2017

Increase in ‘CEO Fraud’ attacks highlights risks to corporate environments

The number of BEC (Business Email Compromise) attacks has grown about 55% in 2015 in comparison with the previous year

26/May/2017

Ransomware recent developments and threats

New threats, spike in infections and attacks against the healthcare industry

26/May/2017

Malvertising — recent developments on tactics and techniques

Performing Malvertising attacks has already become an established technique in the modus operandi of several cyber crime rings

26/May/2017

Exploit Kits: The current revival of an old tool that became trend

The first campaign that used an EK was spotted a decade ago and it used code that exploited a ‘0-day’ vulnerability in Internet Explorer

12/May/2017

WannaCry ransomware spreads around the world and impacts large enterprises

The malware has the behavior of a worm, infecting vulnerable computers that allow connections through Server Message Block (SMB) and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections

09/May/2017

GE patches up vulnerability that allows remote power grids shutdown

Cyberattacks aimed at infrastructure were considered to be costly, requiring a great amount of resources and knowledge to execute

03/May/2017

Stolen “Orange is the New Black” episodes are leaked online. Attackers threaten other studios

The leak occurred after the company refused to pay a ransom of 50 bitcoin that the hacking group demanded in order to not disclose the videos

28/April/2017

Security incident on corporate chat tool HipChat may have exposed users data

It has affected their webservers and allowed others unauthorised access to user content

05/April/2017

USB-based malware raises suspicions of hostile attacks in air-gapped environments

The malware has self-protection features based on volume encryption using the AES128 algorithm, which also creates a single image that should prevent cloning the USB device

26/March/2017

Cyber war games exercises explained

Tempest Security Intelligence has created a unique methodology for running large-scale cyber war games exercises, which we call CYBERDRILL TM

14/March/2017

Steganography in Malvertising campaigns: attacks continue to improve

These attacks have been active at least since 2014 and contain steganography techniques in their execution