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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
7 VPN services leaked data of over 20 million users, says report
A report calls into question the providers’ security practices and dismisses their claims of being no-log VPN services
Amer Owaida • 20 Jul 2020
Digital Security
Data breach reports down by one-third in first half of 2020
The Identity Theft Resource Center doesn't expect the trend to last, however
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Trojanized cryptocurrency trading apps targeting Mac users – An Android chat app turns out to be spyware – Twitter sustains a massive hack
Editor • 17 Jul 2020
Social Media
High-profile Twitter accounts hacked to promote Bitcoin scam
Tech titans and prominent politicians among victims of a sprawling hack that Twitter says leveraged its internal tools
Amer Owaida • 16 Jul 2020
Mac cryptocurrency trading application rebranded, bundled with malware
ESET researchers lure GMERA malware operators to remotely control their Mac honeypots
Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé • 16 Jul 2020
Microsoft patches critical, wormable flaw in Windows DNS Server
The company urges organizations to waste no time in installing updates to fix the vulnerability that rates a ‘perfect’ 10 on the severity scale
Amer Owaida • 15 Jul 2020
Cybercrime
Details of 142 million MGM hotel guests selling for US$2,900
It appears that the July 2019 breach at MGM Resorts affected far more people than initially thought
COVID-19
Mobile security threats amid COVID-19 and beyond: A Q&A with Lukas Stefanko
ESET malware researcher Lukas Stefanko gives us a peek behind the scenes of his analysis of CryCryptor ransomware and puts the threat into a broader context
Gabrielle Ladouceur Despins • 15 Jul 2020
Welcome Chat as a secure messaging app? Nothing could be further from the truth
ESET research uncovers a malicious operation that both spies on victims and leaks their data
Lukas Stefanko • 14 Jul 2020
Zoom patches zero-day flaw in Windows client
The vulnerability exposed Zoom users running Windows 7 or earlier OS versions to remote attacks
Amer Owaida • 13 Jul 2020
Up close with the Evilnum group and its eponymous malware – A severe flaw in networking gear – Router firmware under the microscope
Editor • 10 Jul 2020
Popular home routers plagued by critical security flaws
A study paints a dim picture of router security, as none of the 127 devices tested was free of severe vulnerabilities
Tomáš Foltýn • 09 Jul 2020
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