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ESET discovers Attor, a spy platform with curious GSM fingerprinting

October 10, 2019

ESET researchers discover a previously unreported cyberespionage platform used in targeted attacks against diplomatic missions and governmental institutions, and privacy-concerned users. ESET researchers have discovered a new espionage platform with a complex architecture, a host of measures to make detection and analysis more difficult and two notable features. First, its GSM plugin uses the AT … More ESET discovers Attor, a spy platform with curious GSM fingerprinting

Inside consumer perceptions of security and privacy in the connected home

October 9, 2019

The ESET survey polled 4,000 people to get a sense of their attitudes towards the privacy and security implications of smart home technology. When most people think of home security, locks, alarms and big dogs come to mind. Substitute security with privacy, and images of curtains and blinds, or unlisted phone numbers spring to mind. … More Inside consumer perceptions of security and privacy in the connected home

Needles in a haystack: Picking unwanted UEFI components out of millions of samples

October 8, 2019

ESET experts describe how they trained a machine-learning model to recognize a handful of unwanted UEFI components within a flood of millions of harmless samples. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) security has been a hot topic for the past few years, but, due to various limitations, very little UEFI-based malware has been found in the … More Needles in a haystack: Picking unwanted UEFI components out of millions of samples

Casbaneiro: Dangerous cooking with a secret ingredient

October 7, 2019

Número dois in our series demystifying Latin American banking trojans. Most reverse engineers would agree that quite often one can learn something new on the job. However, it is not every day you learn how to cook a delicious meal while analyzing malware. This unique experience is provided by a malware family we discuss in … More Casbaneiro: Dangerous cooking with a secret ingredient