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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
Critical Infrastructure, Business Security
Choosing your MSP: What the Kaseya incident tells us about third-party cyber-risk
Lessons to learn from the Kaseya cyberincident to protect your business' data when doing business with a MSP.
Phil Muncaster • 13 Jul 2021
COVID-19, Business Security
The hybrid workplace: What does it mean for cybersecurity?
How can organizations mitigate the risk of damaging cyberattacks while juggling the constantly changing mix of office and off-site workers?
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
The Kaseya VST supply-chain attack impacts hundreds of companies – ESET discovers a new version of Bandook malware – How the ransomware business model works
Editor • 09 Jul 2021
Digital Security
Microsoft issues patch to fix PrintNightmare zero-day bug
The out-of-band update fixes a remote code execution flaw affecting the Windows Print Spooler service
Amer Owaida • 08 Jul 2021
Ransomware
Ransomware: To pay or not to pay? Legal or illegal? These are the questions …
Caught between a rock and a hard place, many ransomware victims cave in to extortion demands. Here’s what might change the calculus.
Tony Anscombe • 08 Jul 2021
Bandidos at large: A spying campaign in Latin America
ESET Research uncovers an active malicious campaign that uses new versions of old malware, Bandook, to spy on its victims
Fernando Tavella and Matías Porolli • 07 Jul 2021
Ransomware, Business Security
Kaseya supply-chain attack: What we know so far
As news breaks about the supply-chain ransomware attack against Kaseya's IT management software, here’s what we know so far
Cameron Camp • 03 Jul 2021
Remembering John McAfee, an antivirus software pioneer – Beware these Facebook scams – Data for almost all LinkedIn users scraped and up for sale
Editor • 02 Jul 2021
Social Media
Twitter now lets users set security keys as the only 2FA method
You can now secure your account with a physical security key as your sole 2FA method, without any additional 2FA option
Amer Owaida • 02 Jul 2021
Cybercrime
Global police shut down VPN service favored by cybercriminals
A global operation takes down the infrastructure of DoubleVPN and seizes data about its customers
Amer Owaida • 30 Jun 2021
How To
Common Facebook scams and how to avoid them
Are you on Facebook? So are scammers. Here are some of the most common con jobs on Facebook you should watch out for and how you can tell if you’re being scammed.
Data for 700 million LinkedIn users up for grabs on hacker forum
Information scraped from LinkedIn user profiles includes full names, gender, email addresses and phone numbers
Amer Owaida • 29 Jun 2021
Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center
HermeticWiper: New data-wiping malware hits Ukraine
DoNot Go! Do not respawn!
UEFI threats moving to the ESP: Introducing ESPecter bootkit
Kids Online
Child abductors may use social media to lure victims, FBI warns
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