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Alexandre Côté Cyr and Romain Dumont • 17 Sep 2026 • 17 min. read
ESET Research
Beware the SparroWock: The backdoor that bites, the commands that catch
Martin Smolár • 14 Jul 2026 • 20 min. read
Forgotten UEFI shims undermining Secure Boot
Zoltán Rusnák • 25 Jun 2026 • 10 min. read
Gamaredon in 2025: Leveraging tunnels, workers, dead drops, and new alliances
Business Security
Virtual machines, virtually everywhere – and with real security gaps
Cyber fallout from the Iran war: What to have on your radar
Threat Reports
ESET APT Activity Report Q2 2024–Q3 2024
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in Q2 2024 and Q3 2024
Jean-Ian Boutin • 07 Nov 2024
WeLiveScience
Jane Goodall: Reasons for hope | Starmus highlights
The trailblazing scientist shares her reasons for hope in the fight against climate change and how we can tackle seemingly impossible problems and keep going in the face of adversity
Tomáš Foltýn • 06 Nov 2024
Video
Month in security with Tony Anscombe – October 2024 edition
Election interference, American Water and the Internet Archive breaches, new cybersecurity laws, and more – October saw no shortage of impactful cybersecurity news stories
Editor • 31 Oct 2024
How To
How to remove your personal information from Google Search results
Have you ever googled yourself? Were you happy with what came up? If not, consider requesting the removal of your personal information from search results.
Márk Szabó • 30 Oct 2024
Cybercrime
Don't become a statistic: Tips to help keep your personal data off the dark web
You may not always stop your personal information from ending up in the internet’s dark recesses, but you can take steps to protect yourself from criminals looking to exploit it
Phil Muncaster • 29 Oct 2024
Tony Fadell: Innovating to save our planet | Starmus highlights
As methane emissions come under heightened global scrutiny, learn how a state-of-the-art satellite can pinpoint their sources and deliver the insights needed for targeted mitigation efforts
Tomáš Foltýn • 28 Oct 2024
CloudScout: Evasive Panda scouting cloud services
ESET researchers discovered a previously undocumented toolset used by Evasive Panda to access and retrieve data from cloud services
Anh Ho • 28 Oct 2024
Podcasts
ESET Research Podcast: CosmicBeetle
Learn how a rather clumsy cybercrime group wielding buggy malicious tools managed to compromise a number of SMBs in various parts of the world
ESET Research • 24 Oct 2024
Embargo ransomware: Rock’n’Rust
Novice ransomware group Embargo is testing and deploying a new Rust-based toolkit
Jan Holman and Tomáš Zvara • 23 Oct 2024
Scams
Google Voice scams: What are they and how do I avoid them?
Watch out for schemes where fraudsters trick people into sharing verification codes so they can gain access to their phone numbers
Phil Muncaster • 21 Oct 2024
Threat actors exploiting zero-days faster than ever – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
The average time it takes attackers to weaponize a vulnerability, either before or after a patch is released, shrank from 63 days in 2018-2019 to just five days last year
Editor • 18 Oct 2024
Kids Online
Protecting children from grooming | Unlocked 403 cybersecurity podcast (ep. 7)
“Hey, wanna chat?” This innocent phrase can take on a sinister meaning when it comes from an adult to a child online – and even be the start of a predatory relationship
Editor • 16 Oct 2024
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