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ESET Research, Critical Infrastructure, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

Everything you need to know about the latest variant of Petya

Everything you need to know about the latest variant of Petya

ESET Research, Critical Infrastructure, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

Everything you need to know about the latest variant of Petya

The latest global cyberattack, detected by ESET as Win32 / Diskcoder.C, considered a variant of Petya, once again highlights the reality outdated systems and insufficient security solutions are still widespread.

Diego Perez06 Jul 2017


Critical Infrastructure, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

TeleBots are back: Supply-chain attacks against Ukraine

TeleBots are back: Supply-chain attacks against Ukraine

Critical Infrastructure, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

TeleBots are back: Supply-chain attacks against Ukraine

This blogpost reveals many details about the Diskcoder.C (aka ExPetr or NotPetya) outbreak and related information about previously unpublished attacks.

Anton Cherepanov30 Jun 2017


ESET Research, Critical Infrastructure, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

Industroyer: Biggest threat to industrial control systems since Stuxnet

Industroyer: Biggest threat to industrial control systems since Stuxnet

ESET Research, Critical Infrastructure, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

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 Lipovsky12 Jun 2017


Critical Infrastructure

Proof-of-concept ransomware to poison the water supply

Proof-of-concept ransomware to poison the water supply

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 Cluley15 Feb 2017


Critical Infrastructure

Election hacking FAQ: 2016 US presidential election edition

Election hacking FAQ: 2016 US presidential election edition

Critical Infrastructure

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 Cobb26 Oct 2016


Critical Infrastructure

Infrastructure attacks: The next generation

Infrastructure attacks: The next generation

Critical Infrastructure

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 Harley07 Jun 2016


Critical Infrastructure

Countries remain unprepared for cyberattacks on nuclear facilities

Countries remain unprepared for cyberattacks on nuclear facilities

Critical Infrastructure

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 Purba21 Jan 2016


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UK and US banks to face transatlantic cyberattack test

UK and US banks to face transatlantic cyberattack test

Critical Infrastructure

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 Purba05 Nov 2015


Critical Infrastructure

Germany's Industrie 4.0 – the challenges in IT-Security

Germany's Industrie 4.0 – the challenges in IT-Security

Critical Infrastructure

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 Castro03 Nov 2015