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ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt Trickbot
Throughout its monitoring, ESET analyzed thousands of malicious samples every month to help this effort
Jean-Ian Boutin • 12 Oct 2020
Critical Infrastructure
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 Faou • 02 Oct 2020
LATAM financial cybercrime: Competitors-in-crime sharing TTPs
ESET researchers discover surprisingly many indicators of close cooperation among Latin American banking trojans’ authors
ESET Research • 01 Oct 2020
APT-C-23 group evolves its Android spyware
ESET researchers uncover a new version of Android spyware used by the APT-C-23 threat group against targets in the Middle East
Lukas Stefanko • 30 Sep 2020
Who is calling? CDRThief targets Linux VoIP softswitches
ESET researchers have discovered and analyzed malware that targets Voice over IP (VoIP) softswitches
Anton Cherepanov • 10 Sep 2020
KryptoCibule: The multitasking multicurrency cryptostealer
ESET researchers analyze a previously undocumented trojan that is spread via malicious torrents and uses multiple tricks to squeeze cryptocoins from its victims while staying under the radar
Matthieu Faou and Alexandre Côté Cyr • 02 Sep 2020
Grandoreiro banking trojan impersonates Spain’s tax agency
Beware the tax bogeyman – there are tax scams aplenty
ESET Research and Josep Albors • 21 Aug 2020
Mekotio: These aren’t the security updates you’re looking for…
Another in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans
ESET Research • 13 Aug 2020
Stadeo: Deobfuscating Stantinko and more
We introduce Stadeo – a set of scripts that can help fellow threat researchers and reverse engineers to deobfuscate the code of Stantinko and other malware
Vladislav Hrčka • 07 Aug 2020