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Following ESET’s discovery, a Monero mining botnet is disrupted
ESET researchers discover, and play a key role in the disruption of, a 35,000-strong botnet spreading in Latin America via compromised USB drives
Alan Warburton • 23 Apr 2020
Internet of Things
Serious flaws found in multiple smart home hubs: Is your device among them?
In worst-case scenarios, some vulnerabilities could even allow attackers to take control over the central units and all peripheral devices connected to them
Miloš Čermák and Milan Fránik • 22 Apr 2020
Malware
Stantinko’s new cryptominer features unique obfuscation techniques
ESET researchers bring to light unique obfuscation techniques discovered in the course of analyzing a new cryptomining module distributed by the Stantinko group’s botnet
Vladislav Hrčka • 19 Mar 2020
Tracking Turla: New backdoor delivered via Armenian watering holes
Can an old APT learn new tricks? Turla’s TTPs are largely unchanged, but the group recently added a Python backdoor.
Matthieu Faou • 12 Mar 2020
Guildma: The Devil drives electric
The fourth installment of our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans
ESET Research • 05 Mar 2020
KrØØk: Serious vulnerability affected encryption of billion+ Wi-Fi devices
ESET researchers uncover a previously unknown security flaw allowing an adversary to decrypt some wireless network packets transmitted by vulnerable devices
Miloš Čermák • 26 Feb 2020
Winnti Group targeting universities in Hong Kong
ESET researchers uncover a new campaign of the Winnti Group targeting universities and using ShadowPad and Winnti malware
Mathieu Tartare • 31 Jan 2020
Business Security
It’s time to disconnect RDP from the internet
Brute-force attacks and BlueKeep exploits usurp convenience of direct RDP connections; ESET releases a tool to test your Windows machines for vulnerable versions
Aryeh Goretsky • 17 Dec 2019
Stantinko botnet adds cryptomining to its pool of criminal activities
ESET researchers have discovered that the criminals behind the Stantinko botnet are distributing a cryptomining module to the computers they control
Vladislav Hrčka • 26 Nov 2019