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Operation In(ter)ception: Aerospace and military companies in the crosshairs of cyberspies
ESET researchers uncover targeted attacks against high-profile aerospace and military companies
Dominik Breitenbacher and Kaspars Osis • 17 Jun 2020
Gamaredon group grows its game
Active APT group adds cunning remote template injectors for Word and Excel documents; unique Outlook mass-mailing macro
Jean-Ian Boutin • 11 Jun 2020
From Agent.BTZ to ComRAT v4: A ten-year journey
Turla has updated its ComRAT backdoor and now uses the Gmail web interface for Command and Control
Matthieu Faou • 26 May 2020
Mobile Security
Insidious Android malware gives up all malicious features but one to gain stealth
ESET researchers detect a new way of misusing Accessibility Service, the Achilles’ heel of Android security
Lukas Stefanko • 22 May 2020
No “Game over” for the Winnti Group
The notorious APT group continues to play the video game industry with yet another backdoor
Mathieu Tartare and Martin Smolár • 21 May 2020
Mikroceen: Spying backdoor leveraged in high-profile networks in Central Asia
ESET researchers dissect a backdoor deployed in attacks against multiple government agencies and major organizations operating in two critical infrastructure sectors in Asia
Peter Kálnai • 14 May 2020
Ramsay: A cyber-espionage toolkit tailored for air-gapped networks
ESET researchers uncover several instances of malware that uses various attack vectors to target systems isolated by an air gap
Ignacio Sanmillan • 13 May 2020
Threat Reports
ESET Threat Report Q1 2020
A view of the Q1 2020 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Roman Kováč • 29 Apr 2020
Grandoreiro: How engorged can an EXE get?
Another in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans
ESET Research • 28 Apr 2020
