The EU’s cyber security agency ENISA has published its Cyber Threat Landscape analysis of 2012 which puts drive-by-exploits as the top web threat.

Even visiting security-oriented websites can sometimes be risky. If you’ve visited the security blog zerosecurity.org this month and you’re also a user of ESET’s security products, you might have encountered an anti-virus alert such as this one: The detection names may vary. Different variants of the following “generic families” were detected on the compromised websites on

Here in the Cyber Threat Analysis Center we’re starting to add video blogs. If the threat information I share doesn’t scare you, maybe my picture will :) This short video blog is about drive-by downloads. This is aimed at helping people who are not technical to understand the nature of the threat. Drive-by downloads are

I recently received a question at askeset@eset.com that I think maybe of interest to more than just the author. I read an interesting article written by Kaspersky Lab titled "Drive-by Downloads.  The Web Under Siege" and have a question I was hoping you could answer. (I have included a link to the article below.)  Are

No, nothing to do with drive-by downloads… Our colleagues in Europe came up with a nice idea: an article on the dangers of web surfing on free wi-fi and some tips on staying safe. (A topic dear to the hearts of all of us who find ourselves out and about with our laptops from time