Critical infrastructure


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Colonial Pipeline attack: Hacking the physical world

Colonial Pipeline attack: Hacking the physical world

Colonial Pipeline attack: Hacking the physical world

The attack is a reminder of growing cyberthreats to critical infrastructure while also showing why providers of essential services are ripe targets for cybercriminals

Cameron Camp19 May 2021


Prime targets: Governments shouldn’t go it alone on cybersecurity

Prime targets: Governments shouldn’t go it alone on cybersecurity

Prime targets: Governments shouldn’t go it alone on cybersecurity

A year into the pandemic, ESET reveals new research into activities of the LuckyMouse APT group and considers how governments can rise to the cybersecurity challenges of the accelerated shift to digital

Phil Muncaster29 Apr 2021


Going dark: Service disruptions at stock exchanges and brokerages

Going dark: Service disruptions at stock exchanges and brokerages

Going dark: Service disruptions at stock exchanges and brokerages

Are you a bull or a bear? If you can’t access your data and money, do your sentiments about the market still matter?

Guest Author08 Mar 2021


Cybersecurity risks and challenges facing the financial industry

Cybersecurity risks and challenges facing the financial industry

Cybersecurity risks and challenges facing the financial industry

A primer on various threats looming over financial companies and the steps that these organizations can take to counter them

Amer Owaida04 Mar 2021


Election (in)security: What you may have missed

Election (in)security: What you may have missed

Election (in)security: What you may have missed

As Election Day draws near, here's a snapshot of how this election cycle is faring in the hands of the would-be digitally meddlesome

Cameron Camp30 Oct 2020


XDSpy: Stealing government secrets since 2011

XDSpy: Stealing government secrets since 2011

XDSpy: Stealing government secrets since 2011

ESET researchers uncover a new APT group that has been stealing sensitive documents from several governments in Eastern Europe and the Balkans since 2011

Matthieu Faou02 Oct 2020


Alarm sounded over security risks in online voting system

Alarm sounded over security risks in online voting system

Alarm sounded over security risks in online voting system

Bad actors could tamper with ballots cast via OmniBallot without being detected by voters, election officials or the tool’s developer, a study finds

Amer Owaida09 Jun 2020


What happens when the global supply chain breaks?

What happens when the global supply chain breaks?

What happens when the global supply chain breaks?

If we can’t secure the supply chain, eventually everything else will break

Aryeh Goretsky27 Mar 2020


European power grid organization hit by cyberattack

European power grid organization hit by cyberattack

European power grid organization hit by cyberattack

The incident affected our office network, says ENTSO-E, as it implements measures to avoid future cyber-incursions

Amer Owaida12 Mar 2020