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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
Social Media
Houseparty – should I stay or should I go now?
What’s the benefit of deleting your Houseparty – or any other unused – account, rather than just uninstalling the app?
Jake Moore • 03 Sep 2020
Digital Security
Norway’s parliament struck by hackers
Unknown threat actors were able to exfiltrate information from the email accounts of several parliamentarians
Amer Owaida • 02 Sep 2020
KryptoCibule: The multitasking multicurrency cryptostealer
ESET researchers analyze a previously undocumented trojan that is spread via malicious torrents and uses multiple tricks to squeeze cryptocoins from its victims while staying under the radar
Matthieu Faou and Alexandre Côté Cyr • 02 Sep 2020
Security flaw allows bypassing PIN verification on Visa contactless payments
The vulnerability could allow criminals to rack up fraudulent charges on the cards without needing to know the PINs
Amer Owaida • 31 Aug 2020
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Canada's government services hit by cyberattacks – Vishing attacks surge amid COVID-19 pandemic – DDoS extortionists strike again
Editor • 28 Aug 2020
Cybercrime
DDoS extortion campaign targets financial firms, retailers
The extortionists attempt to scare the targets into paying by claiming to represent some of the world’s most notorious APT groups
Amer Owaida • 27 Aug 2020
New Chrome, Firefox versions fix security bugs, bring productivity features
Chrome gets a new way of managing tabs while Firefox now features a new add-ons blocklist
Amer Owaida • 26 Aug 2020
COVID-19
FBI, CISA warn of spike in vishing attacks
Cybercriminals take aim at teleworkers, setting up malicious duplicates of companies' internal VPN login pages
Amer Owaida • 25 Aug 2020
Cybercrime, Business Security
Cyber attacks: Several Canadian government services disrupted
Several services, including the national revenue agency, had to be shut down following a series of credential-stuffing attacks
Gabrielle Ladouceur Despins • 24 Aug 2020
How To, Social Media
How to secure your TikTok account
From keeping your account safe to curating who can view your liked content, we look at how you can increase your security and privacy on TikTok
Amer Owaida • 24 Aug 2020
Grandoreiro takes aim at Spanish taxpayers – Dangers posed by cloned social media accounts – How to prepare your digital estate plan
Gabrielle Ladouceur Despins • 21 Aug 2020
Grandoreiro banking trojan impersonates Spain’s tax agency
Beware the tax bogeyman – there are tax scams aplenty
ESET Research and Josep Albors • 21 Aug 2020
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