Operation SignSight: Supply‑chain attack against a certification authority in Southeast Asia
ESET researchers have uncovered a supply-chain attack on the website of a government in Southeast Asia.
Malware
Operation StealthyTrident: corporate software under attack
LuckyMouse, TA428, HyperBro, Tmanger and ShadowPad linked in Mongolian supply-chain attack
Turla Crutch: Keeping the “back door” open
ESET researchers discover a new backdoor used by Turla to exfiltrate stolen documents to Dropbox
Lazarus supply‑chain attack in South Korea
ESET researchers uncover a novel Lazarus supply-chain attack leveraging WIZVERA VeraPort software
Hungry for data, ModPipe backdoor hits POS software used in hospitality sector
Backdoor authors show deep knowledge of the targeted POS software, decrypting database passwords from Windows registry values
ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt Trickbot
Throughout its monitoring, ESET analyzed thousands of malicious samples every month to help this effort
XDSpy: Stealing government secrets since 2011
ESET researchers uncover a new APT group that has been stealing sensitive documents from several governments in Eastern Europe and the Balkans since 2011
LATAM financial cybercrime: Competitors‑in‑crime sharing TTPs
ESET researchers discover surprisingly many indicators of close cooperation among Latin American banking trojans’ authors
APT‑C‑23 group evolves its Android spyware
ESET researchers uncover a new version of Android spyware used by the APT-C-23 threat group against targets in the Middle East
Who is calling? CDRThief targets Linux VoIP softswitches
ESET researchers have discovered and analyzed malware that targets Voice over IP (VoIP) softswitches
KryptoCibule: The multitasking multicurrency cryptostealer
ESET researchers analyze a previously undocumented trojan that is spread via malicious torrents and uses multiple tricks to squeeze cryptocoins from its victims while staying under the radar
Grandoreiro banking trojan impersonates Spain’s tax agency
Beware the tax bogeyman – there are tax scams aplenty
Mekotio: These aren’t the security updates you’re looking for…
Another in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans
Stadeo: Deobfuscating Stantinko and more
We introduce Stadeo – a set of scripts that can help fellow threat researchers and reverse engineers to deobfuscate the code of Stantinko and other malware
Mac cryptocurrency trading application rebranded, bundled with malware
ESET researchers lure GMERA malware operators to remotely control their Mac honeypots
Welcome Chat as a secure messaging app? Nothing could be further from the truth
ESET research uncovers a malicious operation that both spies on victims and leaks their data
More evil: A deep look at Evilnum and its toolset
ESET research gives a detailed picture of the operations of the Evilnum group and its toolkit deployed in attacks against carefully chosen targets in the fintech sector
Remote access at risk: Pandemic pulls more cyber‑crooks into the brute‑forcing game
Poorly secured remote access attracts mostly ransomware gangs, but can provide access to coin miners and backdoors too
New ransomware posing as COVID‑19 tracing app targets Canada; ESET offers decryptor
ESET researchers dissect an Android app that masquerades as an official COVID-19 contact-tracing app and encrypts files on the victim's device
Digging up InvisiMole’s hidden arsenal
ESET researchers reveal the modus operandi of the elusive InvisiMole group, including newly discovered ties with the Gamaredon group