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Lukas Stefanko • 10 Apr 2024 • 17 min. read
ESET Research
eXotic Visit campaign: Tracing the footprints of Virtual Invaders
Jakub Kaloč • 20 Mar 2024 • 8 min. read
Rescoms rides waves of AceCryptor spam
Anh Ho, Facundo Muñoz, Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé • 07 Mar 2024 • 14 min. read
Evasive Panda leverages Monlam Festival to target Tibetans
Business Security, Digital Security
Delivering trust with DNS security
Privacy
7 reasons why cybercriminals want your personal data
Scams
Scam impersonates WhatsApp, offers ‘free internet’
The fraudulent campaign is hosted by a domain that is home to yet more bogus offers pretending to come from other well-known brands
Luis Lubeck • 29 Jul 2019
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
A critical vulnerability that was thought to affect VLC media player was later downgraded to medium severity, and the player's maker slammed the bug disclosure process
Tomáš Foltýn • 26 Jul 2019
Ransomware
South African power company battles ransomware attack
The power utility appears to be well on track to a swift recovery following an attack that ultimately left some people without electricity
Digital Security
Streaming service withstands 13-day DDoS siege
The attack, unleashed by a 400,000-strong Mirai-style botnet, may be the largest of its kind on record
Tomáš Foltýn • 25 Jul 2019
Data breaches can haunt firms for years
The compromised company may bear the financial brunt of the breach within the first year after the incident occurs, but the price tag is still far from final
Tomáš Foltýn • 24 Jul 2019
VLC player has a critical flaw – and there's no patch yet (updated)
On the flip side, there are currently no known cases of the vulnerability being exploited in the wild
Tomáš Foltýn • 22 Jul 2019
ESET researchers release new findings about malware linked to the Ke3chang APT group, including details about Okrum, a previously unreported backdoor
Tomáš Foltýn • 19 Jul 2019
With FaceApp in the spotlight, new scams emerge
ESET researchers discover fraudulent schemes piggybacking on the popularity of the face-modifying tool FaceApp, using a fake “Pro” version of the application as a lure
Lukas Stefanko • 19 Jul 2019
Okrum: Ke3chang group targets diplomatic missions
Tracking the malicious activities of the elusive Ke3chang APT group, ESET researchers have discovered new versions of malware families linked to the group, and a previously unreported backdoor
Zuzana Hromcová • 18 Jul 2019
BlueKeep patching isn’t progressing fast enough
Keeping up with BlueKeep; or how many internet-facing systems, and in which countries and industries, remain ripe for exploitation?
Tomáš Foltýn • 17 Jul 2019
Social Media
How your Instagram account could have been hacked
A researcher found that it was possible to subvert the platform’s password recovery mechanism and take control of user accounts
Tomáš Foltýn • 16 Jul 2019
ESET researchers describe the ins and outs of a zero-day exploit that has been used for a highly targeted attack and reveal the name of the threat actor that deployed it
Tomáš Foltýn • 12 Jul 2019
Business Security
Passwordless authentication: Is your company ready to move beyond passwords?
FamousSparrow: A suspicious hotel guest
BladeHawk group: Android espionage against Kurdish ethnic group
Ransomware, Business Security
Kaseya supply-chain attack: What we know so far
Kids Online
5 common scams targeting teens – and how to stay safe
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