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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
Business Security
Protecting the water supply – hacker edition
What can municipalities do to better protect their water supply systems?
Cameron Camp • 11 Feb 2021
Digital Security
Microsoft patches actively exploited Windows kernel flaw
This month’s relatively humble bundle of security updates fixes 56 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug and 11 flaws rated as critical
Amer Owaida • 10 Feb 2021
Cybercrime
Hacker attempts to poison Florida city’s water supply
While the incursion was thwarted in time, cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure are a major cause for concern
Amer Owaida • 09 Feb 2021
Threat Reports, ESET Research
ESET Threat Report Q4 2020
A view of the Q4 2020 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Roman Kováč • 08 Feb 2021
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
ESET unearths a supply-chain attack against an Android emulator for PC and Mac – ESET research into malware targeting HPC clusters – How to prevent at least some zero-days
Editor • 05 Feb 2021
Google: Better patching could have prevented 1 in 4 zero-days last year
Vendors should fix the root cause of a vulnerability, rather than block just one path to triggering it, says Google
Amer Owaida • 04 Feb 2021
Social Media
Facebook etiquette: Behaviors you should avoid
Sharing your thoughts or photos for the world to see is now as easy as pushing a button, but even a seemingly harmless post may come back to haunt you
COVID-19
Identity theft spikes amid pandemic
The US Federal Trade Commission received 1.4 million reports of identity theft last year, double the number from 2019
Amer Owaida • 03 Feb 2021
Kobalos – A complex Linux threat to high performance computing infrastructure
ESET researchers publish a white paper about unique multiplatform malware they’ve named Kobalos
Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé and Ignacio Sanmillan • 02 Feb 2021
Operation NightScout: Supply-chain attack targets online gaming in Asia
ESET researchers uncover a supply-chain attack used in a cyberespionage operation targeting online-gaming communities in Asia
Ignacio Sanmillan • 01 Feb 2021
Law enforcement disrupts Emotet – Wormable Android malware spreading via WhatsApp – Three iOS zero-day bugs squashed
Editor • 29 Jan 2021
Emotet botnet disrupted in global operation
The law enforcement action is one of the most significant operations against cybercriminal enterprises ever
Tomáš Foltýn • 28 Jan 2021
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