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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
Ransomware
Resilience in the face of ransomware: A key to business survival
Making it stick: How to get the most out of cybersecurity training
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
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
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
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
Digital Security
In Memoriam: John McAfee
What was it like to work for, and be friends with, the technology entrepreneur back when he helped shape the computer security industry?
Aryeh Goretsky • 28 Jun 2021
Telling state-backed hackers apart from cybercriminals – How to check if a website is safe – Gaming firms plagued by cyberattacks amid the pandemic
Editor • 25 Jun 2021
Gaming industry under siege from cyberattacks during pandemic
Cyberattacks targeting the gaming industry skyrocket, with web attacks more than tripling year-on-year in 2020
Amer Owaida • 24 Jun 2021
Privacy
Brave launches its own, privacy-focused search engine
Brave's search engine takes on Google, promising to let users surf the web without leaving a trace
Amer Owaida • 23 Jun 2021
How to tell if a website is safe
It can be difficult to tell a legitimate website apart from an unsafe one – follow these steps to identify and protect yourself from bad websites
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