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CosmicBeetle steps up: Probation period at RansomHub
CosmicBeetle, after improving its own ransomware, tries its luck as a RansomHub affiliate
Jakub Souček • 10 Sep 2024
ESET Research Podcast: HotPage
ESET researchers discuss HotPage, a recently discovered adware armed with a highest-privilege, yet vulnerable, Microsoft-signed driver
ESET Research • 05 Sep 2024
Analysis of two arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities affecting WPS Office
Demystifying CVE-2024-7262 and CVE-2024-7263
Romain Dumont • 28 Aug 2024
NGate Android malware relays NFC traffic to steal cash
Android malware discovered by ESET Research relays NFC data from victims’ payment cards, via victims’ mobile phones, to the device of a perpetrator waiting at an ATM
Lukas Stefanko and Jakub Osmani • 22 Aug 2024
Be careful what you pwish for – Phishing in PWA applications
ESET analysts dissect a novel phishing method tailored to Android and iOS users
Jakub Osmani • 20 Aug 2024
Phishing targeting Polish SMBs continues via ModiLoader
ESET researchers detected multiple, widespread phishing campaigns targeting SMBs in Poland during May 2024, distributing various malware families
Jakub Kaloč • 30 Jul 2024
The tap-estry of threats targeting Hamster Kombat players
ESET researchers have discovered threats abusing the success of the Hamster Kombat clicker game
Lukas Stefanko and Peter Strýček • 23 Jul 2024
Cursed tapes: Exploiting the EvilVideo vulnerability on Telegram for Android
ESET researchers discovered a zero-day Telegram for Android exploit that allows sending malicious files disguised as videos
Lukas Stefanko • 22 Jul 2024
HotPage: Story of a signed, vulnerable, ad-injecting driver
A study of a sophisticated Chinese browser injector that leaves more doors open!
Romain Dumont • 18 Jul 2024