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627 articles by ESET Research

Sednit update: How Fancy Bear Spent the Year

Sednit update: How Fancy Bear Spent the Year

Sednit update: How Fancy Bear Spent the Year

Over the past few years the Sednit group has used various techniques to deploy their various components on targets computers. The attack usually starts with an email containing either a malicious link or malicious attachment.

ESET Research • 21 Dec 2017 • 12 min. read


OSX/Proton spreading again through supply-chain attack

OSX/Proton spreading again through supply-chain attack

OSX/Proton spreading again through supply-chain attack

Our researchers noticed that the makers of the Elmedia Player software have been distributing a version of their app trojanized with the OSX/Proton malware.

ESET Research • 20 Oct 2017 • 4 min. read


DoubleLocker: Innovative Android Ransomware

DoubleLocker: Innovative Android Ransomware

DoubleLocker: Innovative Android Ransomware

DoubleLocker can change the device’s PIN, preventing victims from accessing their devices, and also encrypts the data it finds in them - a combination that has not been seen previously in the Android ecosystem.

ESET Research • 13 Oct 2017 • 3 min. read


Mid-year review: Have our security trends for 2017 become reality?

Mid-year review: Have our security trends for 2017 become reality?

Mid-year review: Have our security trends for 2017 become reality?

We are halfway through the year and it is a good opportunity to analyze the extent to which the ideas we gathered in the Trends 2017: Security Held Ransom report have come true.

ESET Research • 20 Jul 2017 • 9 min. read


Sednit adds two zero-day exploits using 'Trump's attack on Syria' as a decoy

Sednit adds two zero-day exploits using 'Trump's attack on Syria' as a decoy

Sednit adds two zero-day exploits using 'Trump's attack on Syria' as a decoy

Sednit is back - this time with two more zero-day exploits embedded in a phishing email titled Trump's_Attack_on_Syria_English.docx.

ESET Research • 09 May 2017 • 13 min. read


Linux Shishiga malware using LUA scripts

Linux Shishiga malware using LUA scripts

Linux Shishiga malware using LUA scripts

The usage of the BitTorrent protocol and Lua modules separates Linux/Shishiga from other types of malware, according to analysis by ESET.

ESET Research and Michal Malik • 25 Apr 2017 • 12 min. read


Sathurbot: Distributed WordPress password attack

Sathurbot: Distributed WordPress password attack

Sathurbot: Distributed WordPress password attack

This article sheds light on the current ecosystem of the Sathurbot backdoor trojan, in particular exposing its use of torrents as a delivery medium and its distributed brute-forcing of weak WordPress administrator accounts.

ESET Research • 06 Apr 2017 • 9 min. read


Carbon Paper: Peering into Turla’s second stage backdoor

Carbon Paper: Peering into Turla’s second stage backdoor

Carbon Paper: Peering into Turla’s second stage backdoor

The Turla espionage group has been targeting various institutions for many years. Recently, ESET found several new versions of Carbon.

ESET Research • 30 Mar 2017 • 26 min. read


Readers of popular websites targeted by stealthy Stegano exploit kit hiding in pixels of malicious ads

Readers of popular websites targeted by stealthy Stegano exploit kit hiding in pixels of malicious ads

Readers of popular websites targeted by stealthy Stegano exploit kit hiding in pixels of malicious ads

Millions of readers who visit popular news websites have been targeted by a series of malicious ads redirecting them to the Stegano exploit kit.

ESET Research • 06 Dec 2016 • 19 min. read