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Jakub Souček • 19 Mar 2026 • 20 min. read
ESET Research
EDR killers explained: Beyond the drivers
ESET Research • 10 Mar 2026 • 12 min. read
Sednit reloaded: Back in the trenches
Lukas Stefanko • 19 Feb 2026 • 13 min. read
PromptSpy ushers in the era of Android threats using GenAI
Business Security
Virtual machines, virtually everywhere – and with real security gaps
Cyber fallout from the Iran war: What to have on your radar
Digital Security
Google to turn on 2FA by default for 150 million users, 2 million YouTubers
Two-factor authentication is a simple way to greatly enhance the security of your account
Amer Owaida • 06 Oct 2021
Scams
To the moon and hack: Fake SafeMoon app drops malware to spy on you
Cryptocurrencies rise and fall, but one thing stays the same – cybercriminals attempt to cash in on the craze
Martina López and Tomáš Foltýn • 06 Oct 2021
UEFI threats moving to the ESP: Introducing ESPecter bootkit
ESET research discovers a previously undocumented UEFI bootkit with roots going back all the way to at least 2012
Martin Smolár and Anton Cherepanov • 05 Oct 2021
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
New ESET Threat Report is out – Cybersecurity Awareness Month begins today – What organizations should do to secure their VPNs
Editor • 01 Oct 2021
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Why being cyber-smart matters
The campaign may last for a month, but we should remember that cybersecurity is a year-round affair
Amer Owaida • 01 Oct 2021
Hackers could force locked iPhones to make contactless payments
Flaws in Apple Pay and Visa could allow criminals to make arbitrary contactless payments – no authentication needed, research finds
Amer Owaida • 30 Sep 2021
Threat Reports
ESET Threat Report T2 2021
A view of the T2 2021 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Roman Kováč • 30 Sep 2021
CISA and NSA release guidance for securing VPNs
What your organization should consider when it comes to choosing a VPN solution and hardening it against attacks
Amer Owaida • 29 Sep 2021
Google releases emergency fix to plug zero-day hole in Chrome
The emergency release comes a mere three days after Google’s previous update that plugged another 19 security loopholes
Amer Owaida • 27 Sep 2021
ESET unmasks FamousSparrow APT group – Stopping cloud data leaks – European cybercrime ring busted
Editor • 24 Sep 2021
Bug in macOS Finder allows remote code execution
While Apple did issue a patch for the vulnerability, it seems that the fix can be easily circumvented
Amer Owaida • 23 Sep 2021
FamousSparrow: A suspicious hotel guest
Yet another APT group that exploited the ProxyLogon vulnerability in March 2021
Matthieu Faou and Tahseen Bin Taj • 23 Sep 2021
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