ESET teamed up with Avast to research a constantly evolving remote access tool (RAT) with the usual backdoor functionality that ESET has dubbed Mikroceen only to discover that it is being used in espionage attacks against government and business entities (from the telcos and gas industries) in Central Asia.
While descriptions like “overshadowed by” or “back in the day…” come to mind when raising the topic of the 2107 WannaCryptor ransomware attack in 2020, we shouldn’t forget how vulnerable institutions and businesses alike found themselves that May.
ESET has partnered with one of world’s leading nonprofit organization, Internews to distribute antivirus software to civil society and at-risk groups worldwide. The pilot project will protect more than 1000 devices, reaching a network of journalists, human rights groups,
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the world has changed, with much of life moving online. Not least affected is education: Sitting rooms have become schoolrooms, kitchens have become cafeterias, and gardens have become playgrounds.
As part of an ongoing series on Latin American banking trojans, ESET researchers take an in-depth look at Grandoreiro. Distributed almost exclusively through email spam, it has lately started to utilize fake websites capitalizing on the global coronavirus pandemic.
ESET researchers have recently discovered an unknown cryptomining botnet, VictoryGate that has been active since at least May 2019, and is composed mainly of devices in Peru, where over 90% of the infected devices are located.
ESET IoT Research team found numerous serious security vulnerabilities in three different home hubs – Fibaro Home Center Lite, HomeMatic Central Control Unit (CCU2) and eLAN-RF-003.
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET discusses the release a new tool from Apple, which looks at how people’s traveling behavior has changed since the start of the pandemic
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET shares certain steps that you need to follow in case you loose your smartphone and preserve the privacy and secrecy of your data in the device
ESET today announced that the ESET Foundation have joined forces with Slovak researchers to support and finance the development of first 100,000 diagnostic polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to detect the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19.
