ESET Research

For the past year, ESET and the security firm GoSecure combined their skills in order to research Linux/Moose further. Here's some of what was uncovered.

ESET's threat analysts have taken a closer look at the software used by Sednit to spy on its targets and steal confidential information.

Criminals are hunting for routers with default credentials and with vulnerabilities in their firmware, with Brazilians the main target.

Security researchers at ESET have released their latest research into the notorious and highly experienced Sednit cyberespionage group.

Tests show that software vulnerabilities and weak passwords are common in home routers, with up to 15% of them being unsecured.

ESET's latest research analyzes a piece of malware active since 2012, but which has targeted one specific country – Libya.

Recently ESET has seen significantly increasing volumes of a particular type of ransomware known as crypto-ransomware, reports Cassius Puodzius.

ESET has carried out analysis of new samples of the crypto-ransomware family TorrentLocker, to compare the 2016 campaigns against its research in late 2014.

During the last hours, OSX/Keydnap was distributed on a trusted website, which turned out to be “something else”. It spread via a recompiled version of the otherwise legitimate open source BitTorrent client application Transmission and distributed on their official website.