With August coming to a close, it's time for ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to look back at some of the top cybersecurity stories that have made the news over the past month. Here's some ...

Tackling deepfakes has become something of a common cause across the political spectrum, in America and elsewhere. That’s down in part to the fact these fabricated videos and images are becoming both ...

IT security is often regarded as the “Department of No” and sometimes it’s easy to see why. In a world of escalating cyber-risk, expanding attack surfaces and a fast-growing cybercrime economy, ...

AI is disrupting sectors as diverse as healthcare and marketing. Now it is the turn of education. Governments sense an opportunity to save costs and improve outcomes for students. Schools are ...

AI-driven OSINT in the wrong hands – and why everyone could be a target for fraud It’s getting cheaper and easier for cybercriminals to research potential victims. Here’s what’s still in your control.

Cybersecurity has a familiar way of saying the storm will come: “a breach is a matter of when, not if.” While the industry’s sternest maxim has probably never been more true, it sometimes feels as ...

ESET researchers discovered two previously unknown backdoors – which we named LunarWeb and LunarMail – compromising a European ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) and its diplomatic missions abroad. We ...

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 February 2020, we discovered a new, modular backdoor, which we named PipeMon. Persisting as a Print Processor, it was used by the Winnti Group against several video gaming companies that are based ...

In this blogpost, ESET researchers provide an analysis of Spellbinder, a lateral movement tool for performing adversary-in-the-middle attacks, used by the China-aligned threat actor that we have named ...

ESET researchers have recently observed a new instance of Operation DreamJob – a campaign that we track under the umbrella of North Korea-aligned Lazarus – in which several European companies active ...