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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
COVID-19, ESET Research
Flaw in the Quebec vaccine passport: analysis
ESET cybersecurity expert Marc-Étienne Léveillé analyses in-depth the Quebec vaccine proof apps VaxiCode and VaxiCode Verif.
Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé • 31 Aug 2021
Digital Security
Don’t use single-factor authentication, warns CISA
The federal agency urges organizations to ditch the bad practice and instead use multi-factor authentication methods
Amer Owaida • 31 Aug 2021
COVID-19
Vaccine passports: Is your personal data in safe hands?
Vaccination passports may facilitate the return to normalcy, but there are also concerns about what kinds of personal data they collect and how well they protect it. Here’s what you should know.
Tony Anscombe • 31 Aug 2021
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
ESET research discovers SideWalk backdoor – Why data breach costs have never been higher – 620,000 personal pictures stolen from iCloud accounts
Editor • 27 Aug 2021
Beyond the pandemic: Why are data breach costs at an all-time high?
It might be tempting to blame the record-high costs of data breaches on the COVID-19 pandemic alone. But dig deeper and a more nuanced picture emerges.
Phil Muncaster • 27 Aug 2021
Cybercrime
Man impersonates Apple support, steals 620,000 photos from iCloud accounts
The man was after sexually explicit photos and videos that he would then share online or store in his own collection
Amer Owaida • 26 Aug 2021
Microsoft Power Apps misconfiguration exposes millions of records
The caches of data that were publicly accessible included names, email addresses and social security numbers
Amer Owaida • 24 Aug 2021
The SideWalk may be as dangerous as the CROSSWALK
Meet SparklingGoblin, a member of the Winnti family
Thibaut Passilly and Mathieu Tartare • 24 Aug 2021
Who is actually paying the ransom demand? – Be careful about what you throw away – Records from a terrorist watchlist exposed online
Editor • 20 Aug 2021
Hackers swipe almost $100 million from major cryptocurrency exchange
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid suspends cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals and moves its assets into cold storage
Amer Owaida • 20 Aug 2021
Ransomware, Business Security
Are you, the customer, the one paying the ransomware demand?
Ransomware payments may have greater implications than you thought – and not just for the companies that paid up
Tony Anscombe • 19 Aug 2021
Health authorities in 40 countries targeted by COVID-19 vaccine scammers
Fraudsters impersonate vaccine manufacturers and authorities overseeing vaccine distribution efforts, INTERPOL warns
Amer Owaida • 18 Aug 2021
Android GravityRAT goes after WhatsApp backups
Asylum Ambuscade: crimeware or cyberespionage?
Kids Online
Teenage cybercrime: How to stop kids from taking the wrong path
How To
What to do if you receive a data breach notice
Rom-con: How romance fraud targets older people – and how to stay safe
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