Award-winning news, views, and insight from the ESET security community
Lukas Stefanko • 10 Apr 2024 • 17 min. read
ESET Research
eXotic Visit campaign: Tracing the footprints of Virtual Invaders
Jakub Kaloč • 20 Mar 2024 • 8 min. read
Rescoms rides waves of AceCryptor spam
Anh Ho, Facundo Muñoz, Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé • 07 Mar 2024 • 14 min. read
Evasive Panda leverages Monlam Festival to target Tibetans
Business Security, Digital Security
Delivering trust with DNS security
Privacy
7 reasons why cybercriminals want your personal data
Why your data is more valuable than you may realize
The data trail you leave behind whenever you're online is bigger – and more revealing – than you may think
Tony Anscombe • 26 Jan 2023
Social Media
Mastodon vs. Twitter: Know the differences
Looking for an alternative to Twitter and thinking about joining the folks flocking to Mastodon? Here’s how the two platforms compare to each other.
André Lameiras • 25 Jan 2023
We Live Progress
5 valuable skills your children can learn by playing video games
Gaming can help your children build and sharpen a range of life skills that will stand them in good stead in the future
André Lameiras • 24 Jan 2023
We Live Progress, Business Security
Hybrid play: Leveling the playing field in online video gaming and beyond
Does VALORANT’s approach to cheating signal a turning point in how we deal with the continued hacks afflicting our hybrid world of work and play?
Rene Holt • 23 Jan 2023
Video
Ransomware payments down 40% in 2022 – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Ransomware revenue plunges to $456 million in 2022 as more victims refuse to pay up. Here's what to make of the trend.
Editor • 20 Jan 2023
Scams
Tech support scammers are still at it: Here’s what to look out for in 2023
Hello, is it me you’re looking for? Fraudsters still want to help you 'fix' a computer problem you never had in the first place.
Phil Muncaster • 19 Jan 2023
Top 10 Venmo scams: Don't fall for these common tricks
Here's what to know about some of the most common ploys that scammers use on the payment app
Phil Muncaster • 17 Jan 2023
Hybrid commerce: Blurring the lines between business and pleasure
It is now acceptable to find a job on a dating app!
André Lameiras • 16 Jan 2023
APT group trojanizes Telegram app – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
StrongPity's backdoor is fitted with various spying features and can record phone calls, collect texts, and gather call logs and contact lists
Editor • 13 Jan 2023
Introducing IPyIDA: A Python plugin for your reverse-engineering toolkit
ESET Research announces IPyIDA 2.0, a Python plugin integrating IPython and Jupyter Notebook into IDA
Rene Holt • 12 Jan 2023
Digital Security
Now you can legally repair your tech – sort of
A new law portends a future where (we hope) it will be easier for us all to repair, fix, upgrade, and just tinker with things we already own
Cameron Camp • 11 Jan 2023
StrongPity espionage campaign targeting Android users
ESET researchers identified an active StrongPity campaign distributing a trojanized version of the Android Telegram app, presented as the Shagle app – a video-chat service that has no app version
Lukas Stefanko • 10 Jan 2023
Very precisely lost – GPS jamming
Business Security
Retail at risk: Top threats facing retailers this holiday season
How To
How to check if your PC has been hacked – and what to do next
Webcam hacking: How to know if someone may be spying on you through your webcam
Signed kernel drivers – Unguarded gateway to Windows’ core
Sign up for our newsletters