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eXotic Visit campaign: Tracing the footprints of Virtual Invaders
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Digital Security
Facebook builds tool to confound facial recognition
However, the social network harbors no plans to deploy the technology in any of its services any time soon
Amer Owaida • 30 Oct 2019
What you may be getting wrong about cybersecurity
Attention-grabbing cyberattacks that use fiendish exploits are probably not the kind of threat that should be your main concern – here's what your organization should focus on instead
Lysa Myers • 29 Oct 2019
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
This week, ESET researchers released their findings on Winnti Group's MSSQL backdoor and showed how they'd tracked down the operator of an adware campaign that victimized millions of Android users.
Tomáš Foltýn • 25 Oct 2019
Internet of Things
Your smart doorbell may be collecting more data than you think, study finds
The study tested 81 IoT devices to analyze their behavior and tracking habits, and in some cases brought rather surprising findings
Amer Owaida • 25 Oct 2019
Facebook lays out plan to protect elections
How is the social network preparing to curtail the spread of misinformation as the election season heats up?
Amer Owaida • 24 Oct 2019
Tracking down the developer of Android adware affecting millions of users
ESET researchers discovered a year-long adware campaign on Google Play and tracked down its operator. The apps involved, installed eight million times, use several tricks for stealth and persistence.
Lukas Stefanko • 24 Oct 2019
Smart cities must be cyber-smart cities
As cities turn to IoT to address long-standing urban problems, what are the risks of leaving cybersecurity behind at the planning phase?
Andrew Lee • 23 Oct 2019
NordVPN reveals breach at datacenter provider
The company says that the incident, going back to March 2018, affected only 1 out of its 3,000 servers
Amer Owaida • 22 Oct 2019
Winnti Group's skip-2.0: A Microsoft SQL Server backdoor
Notorious cyberespionage group debases MSSQL
Mathieu Tartare • 21 Oct 2019
This week, ESET experts described recent shenanigans of The Dukes and the Winnti Group, vulnerabilities in Amazon Echo and Kindle, and a fake Tor Browser stealing cryptocurrency
Tomáš Foltýn • 18 Oct 2019
Fleecing the onion: Darknet shoppers swindled out of bitcoins via trojanized Tor Browser
ESET researchers discover a trojanized Tor Browser distributed by cybercriminals to steal bitcoins from darknet market buyers
Anton Cherepanov • 18 Oct 2019
What was wrong with Alexa? How Amazon Echo and Kindle got KRACKed
ESET Smart Home Research Team uncovers Echo, Kindle versions vulnerable to 2017 Wi-Fi vulnerabilities
Miloš Čermák • 17 Oct 2019
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