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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
Digital Security
Attacks targeting IT firms stir concern, controversy
The Exaramel backdoor, discovered by ESET in 2018, resurfaces in a campaign hitting companies that use an outdated version of a popular IT monitoring tool
Tomáš Foltýn • 17 Feb 2021
Scams
Romance scams in 2020: Breaking hearts, wallets – and records
As dating apps experience a boom amid COVID-19, losses to romance scams soar too
Amer Owaida • 16 Feb 2021
COVID-19
Beware of COVID-19 vaccine scams and misinformation
The vaccination push provides a vital shot in the arm for the world’s battle against the pandemic, but it's also a topic ripe for exploitation by fraudsters and purveyors of misinformation
Record-high number of vulnerabilities reported in 2020
High-severity and critical bugs disclosed in 2020 outnumber the sum total of vulnerabilities reported in 2010
Amer Owaida • 15 Feb 2021
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
ESET's Q4 2020 threat report is out – How smart sex toys can ruin your privacy – Protecting water supply systems
Editor • 12 Feb 2021
How To, Internet of Things
Fifty shades of vulnerable: How to play it safe with your smart sex toy
While you’re living out your fantasies, your internet-enabled sex toy may be setting you up for a privacy nightmare
Denise Giusto Bilić • 12 Feb 2021
Business Security
Protecting the water supply – hacker edition
What can municipalities do to better protect their water supply systems?
Cameron Camp • 11 Feb 2021
Microsoft patches actively exploited Windows kernel flaw
This month’s relatively humble bundle of security updates fixes 56 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug and 11 flaws rated as critical
Amer Owaida • 10 Feb 2021
Cybercrime
Hacker attempts to poison Florida city’s water supply
While the incursion was thwarted in time, cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure are a major cause for concern
Amer Owaida • 09 Feb 2021
Threat Reports, ESET Research
ESET Threat Report Q4 2020
A view of the Q4 2020 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Roman Kováč • 08 Feb 2021
ESET unearths a supply-chain attack against an Android emulator for PC and Mac – ESET research into malware targeting HPC clusters – How to prevent at least some zero-days
Editor • 05 Feb 2021
Google: Better patching could have prevented 1 in 4 zero-days last year
Vendors should fix the root cause of a vulnerability, rather than block just one path to triggering it, says Google
Amer Owaida • 04 Feb 2021
Android "eye spyware" takes photos without users knowing
Cracking the 2023 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge
Mass-spreading campaign targeting Zimbra users
Deepfaking it: What to know about deepfake-driven sextortion schemes
'A woman from Mars': Life in the pursuit of space exploration
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