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Operation NightScout: Supply-chain attack targets online gaming in Asia
ESET researchers uncover a supply-chain attack used in a cyberespionage operation targeting online-gaming communities in Asia
Ignacio Sanmillan • 01 Feb 2021
Vadokrist: A wolf in sheep's clothing
Another in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans
ESET Research • 21 Jan 2021
Operation Spalax: Targeted malware attacks in Colombia
ESET researchers uncover attacks targeting Colombian government institutions and private companies, especially from the energy and metallurgical industries
Matías Porolli • 12 Jan 2021
Operation SignSight: Supply-chain attack against a certification authority in Southeast Asia
ESET researchers have uncovered a supply-chain attack on the website of a government in Southeast Asia.
Ignacio Sanmillan and Matthieu Faou • 17 Dec 2020
Operation StealthyTrident: corporate software under attack
LuckyMouse, TA428, HyperBro, Tmanger and ShadowPad linked in Mongolian supply-chain attack
Mathieu Tartare • 10 Dec 2020
Turla Crutch: Keeping the “back door” open
ESET researchers discover a new backdoor used by Turla to exfiltrate stolen documents to Dropbox
Matthieu Faou • 02 Dec 2020
Lazarus supply-chain attack in South Korea
ESET researchers uncover a novel Lazarus supply-chain attack leveraging WIZVERA VeraPort software
Anton Cherepanov and Peter Kálnai • 16 Nov 2020
Hungry for data, ModPipe backdoor hits POS software used in hospitality sector
Backdoor authors show deep knowledge of the targeted POS software, decrypting database passwords from Windows registry values
Martin Smolár • 12 Nov 2020
Threat Reports
ESET Threat Report Q3 2020
A view of the Q3 2020 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Roman Kováč • 28 Oct 2020