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Industroyer: Biggest threat to industrial control systems since Stuxnet
ESET has analyzed a sophisticated and extremely dangerous malware, known as Industroyer, which is designed to disrupt critical industrial processes.
Anton Cherepanov and Robert Lipovsky • 12 Jun 2017
Critical Infrastructure
Proof-of-concept ransomware to poison the water supply
Researchers have described how ransomware could potentially attack industrial control systems (ICS), and demonstratied how new malware threats might target core infrastructure, holding entire cities hostage.
Graham Cluley • 15 Feb 2017
Election hacking FAQ: 2016 US presidential election edition
Stephen Cobb, senior security researcher at ESET answers the 10 most frequently asked questions on election hacking.
Stephen Cobb • 26 Oct 2016
Infrastructure attacks: The next generation
ESET's David Harley revisits the Stuxnet phenomenon: How has the way we see the malware and its impact changed?
David Harley • 07 Jun 2016
Countries remain unprepared for cyberattacks on nuclear facilities
Nuclear facilities across the world have little or no real security mechanisms in place to deal with cyberattacks, according to new analysis.
Narinder Purba • 21 Jan 2016
UK and US banks to face transatlantic cyberattack test
Banks in the UK and US will be tested on how capable they are in coordinating a transatlantic response to a cyberattack.
Narinder Purba • 05 Nov 2015
Germany's Industrie 4.0 – the challenges in IT-Security
Time after time we have experienced revolutions in our societies, in the way we work and thus in the Industry. In the past we have been through several Industrial Revolutions and now it’s seems to be the time for another.
Raphael Labaca Castro • 03 Nov 2015
ENISA to invest in emerging smart critical infrastructure security
Enhancing security in emerging smart critical infrastructures will be a key focus areas for the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security in 2016.
Karl Thomas • 28 Oct 2015
White House unveils NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
The U.S. government has released the NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, a set of voluntary standards designed to help companies in industries critical to the nation to defend against cyber threats. ESET experts comment.
Rob Waugh • 13 Feb 2014