Mass murder by pacemaker hacking isn’t the likeliest scenario, but clinical tools and SCADA devices still deserve serious security scrutiny.

FTC action isn’t diminishing the volume of reported support scam calls and losses: what’s driving the people behind the scam, and what does the future hold?

The slides for many of the presentations by ESET researchers at VB 2012 can now be found on the Virus Bulletin conference web pages.

Another year, another fine Virus Bulletin conference come and gone. And some of us even got long-service badges. (My first VB was in 1996, and my first VB presentation in 1997, but there are people like our own Righard Zwienenberg whose attendance record goes back way further.) (Yes, it did rain the last day or

There is very little research data on PIN prevalence available, so analysis of a new dataset of 4-digit passcodes can’t be ignored.

Where to find more information about current trends in international ransomware design.

More on the Gaelic ransomware, and how to spot ransomware in your own language, even if you aren’t Irish.

Nitol versus Michelangelo: the supply chain is much more than the production line.

Information about the August Global Threat Report and where to find other ESET resources

Well, that was a little unexpected. The Irish Times has reported the discovery of the “first Irish language virus“. (Further checking suggests that the story may have originated with the Donegal Daily.) Actually, it sounds less like a virus – there’s no indication of whether it self-replicates – than the kind of ransomware that we’ve