Our world is becoming more impersonal as it becomes more digital-centric. And because we can’t see the person or organization at the other end of an email, social media message or text, it’s easier ...
With July coming to a close, ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe looks back at some of the top cybersecurity stories that made the news over the past month and offers insights that they may ...
Someone sends you a screenshot showing that a payment has gone through. It carries the right logo, amount, timestamp and transaction status. Yet the money never arrives. What passes for proof today ...
Do you ever play computer games such as Halo or Gears of War? If so, you’ve definitely noticed a game mode called Capture the Flag that pits two teams against each other – one that is in charge of ...
In 2024, ESET researchers noticed previously undocumented malware in the network of a Southeast Asian governmental entity. This led us to uncover even more new malware on the same system, none of ...
Whether you chose to call it "Celebgate" or refer to it by the rather crude moniker of "The Fappening", there's no doubt that the leaking on the internet of private nude photographs of dozens of ...
Following OceanLotus’ activities is taking a tour in the world of deception. This group is known to lure victims by forging appealing documents to entice potential victims into executing the group’s ...
ESET researchers provide insights into how PlushDaemon performs adversary-in-the-middle attacks using a previously undocumented network implant that we have named EdgeStepper, which redirects all DNS ...
In August 2024, ESET researchers detected cyberespionage activity carried out by the China-aligned MirrorFace advanced persistent threat (APT) group against a Central European diplomatic institute in ...
ESET researchers have dissected some of the latest additions to the malicious toolkit of the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as OceanLotus, also dubbed APT32 and APT-C-00. A prolific ...